269) Teresa Coady: Redesigning built environments for life rather than machines
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
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🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Teresa Coady is an award-winning architect and Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Her new book, Rebuilding Earth: Designing Ecoconscious Habitats for Humans, is a revolutionary guide to rethinking our role as planet shapers in the Digital Age.
In this podcast episode, Teresa sheds light on why we need to go beyond thinking about wellness through an individualistic lens to looking at it through a systemic lens; how we've largely been designing our built environments for machines rather than for life and ecological health; and more.
Featured music: I Need Angels by Adrian Sutherland & Midnight Shine
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| 1:31.0 | We think we shape our buildings, but our buildings shape us. First, when we say the word construction, a lot of people think of buildings, |
| 1:38.4 | but actually construction is everything we build. And that includes the roads and the bridges. |
| 1:43.8 | It includes the airports and the ports. It includes the airports and the ports. |
| 1:45.9 | It includes the dams and the power plants and the pipelines and the rail lines. All of that |
| 1:52.3 | impacts us in ways that we are not consciously aware of and all of that alters our earth. |
| 2:02.9 | That was Teresa Cody, an award-winning architect and fellow of the Royal Architects of Canada. |
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