Force of nature https://on.mas.co.nz/issues/november-2021/force-of-nature/

2021:
Interview with Medical Assurance Society - watch here vimeo.com/643320083

Article
"Effects of a sensory garden on workplace wellbeing: a randomised control trial"

Article
"Getting out in the garden to lift the lockdown blues"

​2020:
Video
"Sensory gardens are good for us"
vimeo.com/269783083

2018:
Articles 
University's sensory garden improves health and combats stress

"Should doctors prescribe gardening?"

Feature
"How to beat stress and move more"

2016 update:
This year, in addition to day-to-day design work, Greenstone Design has: helped draft the UK's inaugural Health and Horticulture Charter (June, 2016).

written an article on the health potential of landscape design  for the international publishing house, Routledge Press

in conjunction with the NZ Barrier Free Trust, advised Regenerate Christchurch of the potential for well-being to be designed in the the Red Zone redevelopment

​2015 update: 

At the invitation of the World Health Organization's Healthy Cities network Norway, a conference presentation in Oslo, university meetings with big thinkers in Copenhagen, Denmark, Alnarp, Sweden, London School of Economics, University College London, University of Exeter, UK and University of California at Berkely, USA were a real feature of the year!  

Meanwhile, back in the office, we delivered NZ's largest natural playground project (20 sites for the Wellington Playcentre Association) through research, consultation, concept design, developed design and project management. 

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Sept 22-26, 2014: Feedback from the Urban Design national speaker series - "Wow. I was absolutely was on the edge of my seat during Monday's NZIA Urban Design Series in Auckland", and from Christchurch - "Gayle Souter-Brown's presentation was quite possibly the best I have ever heard"

Sept 20th 2014: Click on the Radio New Zealand audio link above to listen to the interview with author and Greenstone's Founder Gayle Souter-Brown about healing landscapes. The wide-ranging discussion of Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being: Using Healing, Sensory and Therapeutic Gardens touches on active ageing, school grounds design, natural play, the principles of urban design, public health and her forthcoming speaking engagements at the NZIA Urban Design national speaker series and  alongside Richard Louv at the A Place to Live conference.

The first copy is couriered, much to the delight of author and Greenstone Design Director, Gayle Souter-Brown

*US, Canada, Australasia book launched in 2014.

​Mandarin translation coming soon to China in 2017! 

Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being was published by Routledge Press, London 6th August 2014 . Order your hardcover, softcover or Kindle copy through booksellers like Amazon, Barnes and Noble 


** For media inquiries please phone +64 (0)9 486 2161 or email info @ greenstonedesign.co.nz.** 

Press: Click the link for an article from news source Stuff.com about our Director Gayle Souter-Brown, on her views on redeveloping Christchurch as an accessible, inclusive city

News and events

April 19th 2014, our Director Gayle Souter-Brown was interviewed live on Hutt Radio, talking about medieval gardens and their relevance today. Click on the link to the access the MP3 file. Medieval gardens were the first resilient community gardens designed for health and well-being

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April 6th 2014, our Director Gayle Souter-Brown was invited by the New Zealand Institute of Architects to showcase her new textbook, outlining the role landscape architecture plays in determining our health and well-being, to a global audience

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January 2014, the manuscript for the new academic text Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being Using Healing, Sensory and Therapeutic Gardens was submitted to the publishers Routledge Press in London

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November 2013 : Finally, we have photos of teachers enjoying the construction phase of our latest, and largest, playground design project - the new natural playground at Moscow's AAS school, in Russia! Photos of the completed elementary school playground mounds, tunnels, climbing and other natural play opportunities, and a wonderful video of the natural playground's grand opening ceremony. Check out our Facebook page for photos of the roofed sandpit, outdoor stage, rock tower, grass amphitheater and more!


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July 9-12th 2013 our Director Gayle Souter-Brown is the only landscape professional to present at the 9th World Design & Health Congress, in Brisbane Australia on the cost effectiveness of using landscape as an intervention tool for health and well-being

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Saturday 6th May 2013 Gayle Souter-Brown will be addressing the Canterbury Rotary District Conference at Methven

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Thursday 18th April 2013 Gayle Souter-Brown will be addressing the NZ Institute of Architects small practice group

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Tuesday October 2nd and Wednesday Oct 3rd 2012, Gayle Souter-Brown will be addressing the Canterbury Horticulture Society at the Horticultural Society Hall, Christchurch Botanic Garden


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The next Garden Design taster workshop will be held at Trinity Farm Nursery barn, Waitohu Valley Road, Otaki, on Saturday 16th June. 10-1pm. $85, refreshments and course handouts, garden tour and assessment included.
Please email or phone 0800 955 555 to book, or contact us for more information

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This year the UK celebrates the first National Gardening Week, April 16-22, 2012. Join in and make a difference

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March 6-11, 2012 saw us launch Greenstone Design Limited in Christchurch, NZ, at 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.