In the news:

The author copy of Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being arrived today!

Our Director is in NZ to launch the new book. Listen to the interview with Gayle Souter-Brown about healing sensory-rich landscapes. This wide-ranging discussion of Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being: Using Healing, Sensory and Therapeutic Gardens highlights the principles of sensory gardens, urban design and public health.

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Media and news

October 2018, our sensory garden, designed for AUT university was awarded in Top Three green spaces in the World for health and well-being, by the International Sport and Culture Association, Copenhagen. 

May 2018, our work on Healthy Cities was presented to the Global Challenges Summit, in Astana, alongside Ban Ki-Moon, Francois Hollande, Steve Wozniak, nobel laureates, esteemed professors. 

November 2016, presented our work to the World Health Organization's Healthy Cities conference in Oslo

March 2015 Our book Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being, Using Healing, Sensory and Therapeutic Gardens  was published by Routledge Press, Toronto and New York

November 2014 The A Place to Live conference included presentations from Greenstone's Gayle Souter-Brown and Richard Louv on the social, economic and environmental benefits of connecting children and their families to nature.

November 2014: Check out the link to the video of the grand opening of our latest natural play project in for the Anglo American School of Moscow and St Petersburg in Moscow, Russia. Photos are on Facebook too!

September 2014 - presented Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being, Using Healing, Sensory and Therapeutic Gardens to the health ministers, architects and planners of Europe at the WHO's healthy cities conference in Athens, Greece

August 2014 

• Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-being: Using Healing, Sensory and Therapeutic Gardens was published in London as an accessible text for everyone interested in design for health and well-being. Find it in Kinokuniya Singapore, RHS Wisley and other quality book shops and online book sellers like Amazon and Barnes and Noble . 
• Greenstone Design appointed to an international Centre of Research Excellent group. We are the only consultants included, alongside 14 universities. 
  "The CoREs represent something quite extraordinary, a critical mass of researchers who have been internationally vetted and decreed to be internationally competitive. We are a resource nationally and internationally. We are a resource for ourselves, our partners, the education sector, government, business, and the country as a whole." Prof Kathryn McGrath
  

2013 was a busy year.

• In April we presented a CPD validated workshop to the architects practice group on salutogenic landscape and urban design, taking a preventative approach to public health through design for health and well-being. 
• In May we addressed the Rotary District Conference in Methven, NZ on salutogenic design and the opportunities for major community groups like Rotary International to embrace community health care through environmental design solutions,  Also in May she presented at New Zealand's inaugural Universal Design Symposium, via camera from London UK,  
• In July we presented at the World Design and Health Congress in Brisbane, Australia. The WDHC is a scientific peer reviewed forum. Gayle was honoured to be the only landscape professional presenting at the 9th World Congress.

March 6-11, 2012 saw us in Christchurch, NZ, for the Ellerslie International Flower Show. We were just one point off Gold medal winners and won a Silver Distinction award for our small-but-perfectly-formed sustainable sensory garden.