West Coast of Scotland

I started off with working in the property sector and realised I didn't really like that so retrained into design and urbanism which really brought back to this idea of building in nature into cities and into the built environments. And from that journey came into biomimicry and exploring deeper understanding about nature, the structure, substance, materials, energy, looking at systems. So whether it's working with food retailers or packaging companies or doing urban design work we can then look at nature to see how and where it does it differently. We work with many businesses and are working with two projects through the Royal Academy of Engineering. We're working in Madagascar looking at creating 3d energy of pine needles and also working in in Kerala in India where we were looking at woman led initiatives for the fishing community. That's in climate adaptation, mitigation and generating new income streams.

A run in the fields along the river in York

It's everything! It's hard to ask somebody who works in biomimicry to talk about one thing.

I relate to the work of Clover Hook and what she and her team are doing especially around their work on eco-anxiety

Look a little bit deeper, it can spark your imagination. Just pick something up and then do a bit of research into how that material is made, how it's grown, the structure, network, the system it came from... The challenge is slowing down and looking at things slightly differently.