Teresa Coady: Redesigning built environments for life rather than machines
Teresa Coady (LinkedIn: 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.
To start, get a glimpse below into the conversation between Teresa and Green Dreamer Podcast's host, Kamea Chayne.
Musical feature: Trust The Sun by I Need Angels by Adrian Sutherland & Midnight Shine
“We’ve taken more stuff out of the earth in the past two decades than we have in all of human history, and most of it has gone into construction.”
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On how construction impacts human health and the earth:
"We think we shape our buildings, but our buildings shape us.
When we say the word 'construction', a lot of people think of buildings. But actually, construction is everything we build—including roads, bridges, airports, ports, dams, power plants, pipelines, and rail lines. All of that impacts us in ways that we are not consciously aware of, and all of that alters our earth."
Final words of wisdom:
"We will create the future we imagine. So it's up to us to imagine a beautiful future.”
