The keynote speaker of UK Timber Design Conference will be Jonathan Smales, Founder and CEO of Human Nature.
The event, run by Timber Development UK, takes place on July 3 at Hamilton House in London.
Mr Smales is a developer working to make new and regenerated places at scale, with his company Human Nature seeking to demonstrate that, by embracing the reality of climate and nature crises and by addressing social injustice and cohesion through place and development strategy and great design, government missions can be achieved and lives improved.
A former MD of Greenpeace, Jonathan is still a campaigner but now does his campaigning work for exponential sustainability through the super-power of place and the communities and lifestyles great places and infrastructures can inspire and support.
Laying out a response to the national agenda to create ‘large-scale new communities across England’, the Human Nature Foundation have recently launched a paper titled ‘How Shall We Live?’. This groundbreaking report reconsiders the role of large new settlements as powerful levers of change with wide systemic impacts – environmentally, socially and economically.
For more information on the conference visit DESIGN.
