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This blog has been along time in the making and will start with a collection of writings from me over the years reflecting on the design and planning world.

My ideas haven’t changed much over the years I’ve been working, thinking, exploring and studying. I’ve found It's essential to maintain a philosophy and to continuously question every aspect of your own work and the work of your peers. For me it’s important go beyond established approaches and be critical of the foundations of our beliefs and approach. It's important to stay grounded and avoid blindly following ideas that seem promising simply because they're endorsed by greenwashing that we’ve been conditioned to accept.

There is a mainstream approach to landscape architecture and there needs to be one within our economic and societal system. We live according to a structure

So for me it’s important, to Questioning the mainstream approach to design and planning whilst respecting alternative perspectives from across the globe is, I believe, essential to being a true architect—not just a design architect. Keeping your mind fresh by engaging with the physical environment around you ensures that your designs remain meaningful and relevant.

Something reaimportant For me is soil. It’s not really u deltoid and yet it provides us with everything.
In many projects, the focus is on buildings, while soil is reduced to small pockets around foundations. It’s often removed, and plants are placed in artificial containers. However, soil carries not only historical and spiritual significance but also contains essential microbial life and health benefits. Most importantly, the sustainability of civilization itself depends on healthy soil.

A century ago, soil was respected and its value to society understood, but modern society has become disconnected from these values. Values for the natural world and things which make us healthy. Values lie within commodities. One simple approach that interests me is minimizing the use of foundations to preserve the soil in its natural state. By leaving the soil undisturbed, we can adopt a regenerative approach to this invaluable resource.

Read my posts below and form your own opinions. I welcome disagreement and angry responses—this is essential otherwise whats the point. I don’t need the self -gratifying greenwashing; we need critical thinking and honest debate. Explore some of the approaches I've developed for putting these ideas into practice.

• Who owns that land?
• Whys is nothing happening here?
• Whats the council doing with my money?
• Why don't we grow more things?
• We intrinsically know whats best for us and is this respected by those in power?
• There is a top-down power structure - are we fooling ourselves with the idea of democracy? yes
• Environmental technocracy to confuse and divide.
• What actually is going on with climate change and why is this used by large corporations to promote there monopolisation of environmentalism?