This summer, we've had the opportunity to explore everyday life in Africa through visits to family homesteads, local crafters, and small businesses. One especially memorable stop was a visit with a Kenyan woman named Jen, who lives in a farming village near Lake Nakuru.

For those of us exploring biomimicry and life-centered design, this may be one of the most important invitations Robin offers. Nature is not only a source of ideas, strategies, and inspiration; it is also a relationship.

When Communities Use Local Waste to Create Iconic Art

For years, the work of Zaha Hadid has inspired admiration. Her fearless rejection of the orthogonal grid, her fluid forms that seem to defy gravity, and her insistence that architecture could capture the dynamism of natural forces all resonate with a deep fascination for nature’s patterns and organic geometries.