Book Launch; Ecopuncture: Transforming Architecture and Urbanism in Asia by Nirmal Kishnani

Ecopuncture: Transforming Architecture and Urbanism in Asia

Author: Nirmal Kishnani

Publisher: FuturArc

There is a pressing need to integrate blue, green, and grey layers; to merge water, greenery, and built elements in new ways to create robust socio-ecological systems. Asia is witnessing a staggering loss of natural, human, and social capitals, partly due to the way we build. The problem isn’t that we aren’t Green enough; it’s that Green may be the right answer to the wrong question. Should we stay the course and do less harm? Or is there a need now, faced with a pressing global crisis of ecology and climate, to do good; to heal, repair, and regenerate? Ecopuncture: Transforming Architecture and Urbanism in Asia, the new book by Dr Nirmal Kishnani, returns to the heart of the sustainability question: how to forge human-nature partnerships, and restore our place in the natural world. What’s good for the planet, it turns out, is beautiful and profitable in more ways than we ever imagined.

The book can be found on its website: www.ecopuncture-asia.com Augmenting the book are several videos that feature interviews with Asian thought-leaders, illustrated with projects.

The Ecopuncture Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IGa2QrXj8

Kampung Admiralty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aOj3dhZNGs

Shanghai Houtan Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PFiW_6Nic

Khoo Teck Puat Hospital: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99BFSpK8AzU