Roots First Design

At Roots First Design, we care deeply about how people experience their environments. We ask: How can we design environments in a way that helps people tap into a deeper connection with their land and with nature more broadly? We believe that creating ecologically significant environments is not merely about function or simply planting from an approved list. More integral to effecting lasting environmental change is to inspire a transformation in the way that the users of a landscape relate to it. With this in mind, we strive to design environments that resonate with people in deep and lasting ways. One way we do this is through the spatial patterns and forms that we create in a landscape project, which determine how people experience a space and the extent to which they interact meaningfully with their environment. We believe that it’s the quality of these interactions that teach us about ecosystems, our place within them, and in turn, ourselves.