Born into an artistic family in 1971, Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos’s 30-year career carries with it the unmistakable timbre of her massive installations, sculptures assembled from embroidered, crocheted, and knitted elements, but also everyday objects like pianos, laptops, commercially produced decorative objects.

Spatial analysis can help policymakers understand how nature-based solutions must first respond to a community’s needs for the benefits of nature, rather than just wave an ‘aesthetic’ wand at urban centres of high population density.

At MICAS’s education conference, ‘Connecting with Nature: Placemaking and the Urban Garden’, C.J. Lim proposes how urbanism must resolve its confrontation with nature through bold and imaginative solutions that allows humans to recover an ecological symbiosis lost to industrialisation