This book explores the current challenges of teaching biophilic design within environmentally
sustainable design (ESD) education. It shows how design frameworks and success matrices can be
used within ESD education explores the development of biophilic design frameworks and shows
how design thinking can be used to adopt biophilic design within ESD education. It introduces
the new 'Process Bridging Technique (PBT)' that can be used to generate sustainable design
frameworks able to fulfil the requirements of a performance-based approach and at the same
time enhance human-nature connectedness. Based on an educational design research project
developed in the past two years at the University of Sydney this book informs new approaches
to ESD education and bridges the spheres of research education and profession. It serves as a
practical guide on how to systematically develop a design framework that can be used in
architecture education while presenting the pioneering 'Process Bridging Technique' developed
by the authors.
