This is the second part of the presentation Finding the Heart to Placemaking (Part 1: https://youtu.be/aVxp0xel0JI). In this video, I look at the importance of landscapes during times of social chaos. I start by going back to the original questions of "why do we design" and "why do we make place." 

My PhD research on poignant landscapes sheds light on belonging and flourishing. These landscapes reveal to us that the first place we belong to is the internal place within ourselves. Our interpretations of the world, the place we nurture ourselves in, changes our environment, our actions, and ultimately our reality. 

So in times of social chaos, the landscape work we need to focus on is the purposeful "design and reconstruction" of our inner environments, our perceptions, and our humanity.