Recovery gardens are green spaces that offer staff and patients a sensory, calming refuge from the stress of clinical environments. These gardens aim to promote mental wellbeing, reduce stress, and support emotional recovery through nature. Among other things, their design features layered planting, sheltered seating, and accessible paths.

Although at Sharp & Sour we're more interested in collective care than personal immortality, Bryan Johnson’s work on optimizing health and longevity is undeniably fascinating.

'We are not arguing that the standards for adopting new cancer treatments should be lower. We are arguing that medical cannabis meets or exceeds those standards, often to a greater extent than current pharmaceutical treatments.'

Invisible is a cultural research and Futures Design laboratory that stems from the need to explore alternative narratives, ideas and frames of references which expand the collective imaginations of people and organisations. This time, we want to share one of their reports on the futures of rest, but they have others. Go check them out!

Having an optimistic outlook on life — a general expectation that good things will happen — may help people live longer, according to a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

In Healing Spaces, Esther Sternberg explores how the emerging science of neuroarchitecture reveals the power of built environments—from hospitals to gardens—to influence our brain, immune system, and capacity to heal.