Communal Spaces for Sustainable Wellbeing
Everything you need to know about the process
DESIGNING PUBLIC GARDENS AND COMMUNITY GREEN SPACES
Members of the community who will use the communal space are integral to the design process.
The briefing session
Our initial consultation is open to all interested participants and aims to get to know each other. Once the relationship and trust is established, we'll gather the findings from this meeting and create a nature fun workshop that will then enhance the creative process further.
Discovery workshop
The workshop offers a wonderful chance to dive deeper into designing your community space.
We're all about crafting enjoyable activities that bring us closer to nature in delightful and unexpected ways, helping to strengthen the connections among everyone involved.
Design and consensus
There are two design stages, a preliminary design and final design. All interested parties are invited to provide feedback following the preliminary design presentation. We'll consider your feedback in creation of the final design.
Monitoring
Additionally, you'll receive a monitoring and maintenance plan to ensure the success of your communal space.
COSTS
Costs for commercial or community garden design vary depending on the complexities of works involved. We're happy to offer a free design estimate.
Communal spaces case study - 'Mindful Listening' community garden
The ‘Mindful Listening’ garden attends to the pressing concerns of the rising amount of individuals suffering from mental ill-health and seeks to reduce health inequalities.
The garden’s main features consists of a five step guided experience where individuals learn or get reminded of the importance of mindful listening. These steps act as easy to follow self-therapy to help strengthen relationships and to ultimately help reduce stress and anxiety.
Individuals who as a result of the garden become mindful listeners can help disseminate this skill into the wider society.
The garden’s experience is enhanced by a welcoming and calming natural environment open to the public of all ages and disabilities.
In addition, the garden contains an acoustically enhanced area that forms a place to help practice collective consensus. This space is open to interpretation, however, activities such as listening to music, comedy or stories are highly recommended as well as activities such as practising yoga or meditation as these have the potential to enlighten the mind too.
The entire garden serves as a place to look deeper into ourselves and to enhance the ability to listen to our inner voice whilst the natural setting is designed to create a soothing and calming environment to help to do so.
The concept is an outcome of interdisciplinary research and attends to social, economic and environmental sustainability.
The garden’s concept can be applied to various environments such as green spaces, gardens, schools, universities, hospitals, businesses, festivals and others as well as semi-open indoor spaces.