Our Mission & Philosophy
🌱 Our Mission
We bring nature back into the city. By combining data, design, and community power, we transform overlooked urban spaces into living, resilient ecosystems. Through small, precise interventions, we regenerate the city fabric, strengthen resilience to climate change, and create healthier, more liveable environments for people and biodiversity alike.
🌿 Our Philosophy
Cities are living bodies. When they ache, we can heal them — not with massive, disruptive projects, but with subtle, vital needlepoints of green. This is the art of urban acupuncture: reconnecting humans and nature through micro-interventions that ripple outward. Every planter, pocket garden, and restored patch of soil helps transform cities from cold, hard infrastructure into more liveable places, driving regeneration for both people and biodiversity.
🎯 Our Objectives
Data-Driven Impact
Map the city’s pain points with open GIS data to target where nature can heal most.
Sustainable Design
Create low-cost, low-impact solutions that last and empower people to act.
Community Engagement
Bring people together to co-create shared green spaces.
Urban Regeneration
Restore biodiversity and natural processes at the heart of the city.
The UrbanBiome App
Visualize, analyze, plan, and contribute to a greener city with our all-in-one platform. Our app combines powerful data analysis with community mapping to help us build a better urban biome together.
Key Features
Community Sightings Map Help us map our city’s biome! Add your own sightings of interesting sites directly to the map. This could be a great nature-based solution, a problem area, or a space with untapped potential. See what others have found and contribute to our collective understanding of the urban landscape.
Identify Greening Opportunities with NDVI The app includes live Sentinel-2 satellite data, processed to visualise the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). This powerful tool helps us identify areas that lack green space and target interventions where they are most needed.
Meet Our Team
Reuben Forster
GIS Analyst / Ecological Design
Reuben Forster is a Designer and Technologist committed to leveraging technology for societal betterment. He specializes in computational problem-solving, marrying natural phenomena with technological innovation.
Manon Dangelser
Senior Consultant | Sustainability | Resilience
Manon is a climate resilience consultant, sustainability specialist & engineer. Her focus is to advocate for the integration of resilience and climate adaptation measures at early design stage.
Support Our Mission
Our work is driven by a passion for creating greener, more resilient cities for everyone. If you share our vision, please consider supporting our mission.
Get In Touch
For inquiries, collaborations, or to request access to the UrbanBiome Tool, please reach out.