Ellen Kempson: Can the Use of Biophilic Design Aid the Rehabilitation Process of Prison Inmates

This episode features a conversation with Ellen Kempson, a final year undergraduate student on the BA (Hons) Interior Design course at Cardiff School of Art & Design, about their final year research which explores the potential use of biophilic design principles to aid the rehabilitation process of prison inmates

In conversation with Ellen is Dr Martyn Woodward

You can find out more about Ellen’s work via their website here or on Instagram @nelles.studio

If you would like to follow up on some of the ideas discussed in this episode you may find the following resources interesting: 

• Kellert, S.R. (2018) Nature by Design: The Practice of Biophilic Design. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 

• All You Need to Know About Full Spectrum Lighting: https://www.waveformlighting.com

• Karthaus, R., Block, L. and Hu, A. (2019) “Redesigning prison: the architecture and ethics of rehabilitation,” Journal of architecture, 24(2), pp. 193–222. 

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