September 2025 Newsletter
Knowledge Exchange Visit
Designing for Recovery: The Role of Multisensory Environments in Promoting Mental Health
Discover how London’s green spaces can do more than just look beautiful—they can actively support mental health.
In this new video and blog, Designing for Recovery: The Role of Multisensory Environments in Promoting Mental Health, Dr. Shimeng Hao explores how sight, sound, and scent shape people’s experiences of urban nature.
Led by Dr. Shimeng Hao (UCL) with partners at London South Bank University, this UKRI-funded RECLAIM Network Plus project investigates which sensory elements best reduce stress and restore mental energy. From birdsong and water sounds to the fragrance of plants, our research aims to create evidence-based design guidelines that help planners, architects, and councils make cities healthier, more inclusive, and more resilient.
Read the full blog post here: Designing for Recovery: The Role of Multisensory Environments in Promoting Mental Health — RECLAIM
Discover all our Knowledge Exchange Visits here.
Launch of the GREENIN Micro Network Plus
Climate change is reshaping our indoor environments, with rising temperatures, fluctuating humidity, and shifting air quality presenting new challenges for health and wellbeing. While outdoor greening strategies such as green roofs are well studied, the role of indoor nature-based solutions remains underexplored.
The GREENIN Micro Network Plus aims to fill this gap by investigating how indoor plants and greening strategies can enhance air quality, thermal comfort, and humidity control across diverse building types. Bringing together an interdisciplinary network, the project envisions healthier, more adaptive, and climate-resilient indoor spaces.
Join us for the Launch Webinar on 22nd October 2025 at 1pm (BST), where the GREENIN team will introduce the initiative, share its research agenda, and open discussions on the future of indoor greening. Register here NOW.
You can also keep up to date with the network activities and opportunities by following us on social media:
Parks for London toolkit
We’re delighted to share the new Parks for London toolkit – Harnessing Nature: Flood Mitigation through Green Spaces.
This resource brings together the key insights from the RECLAIM Network Plus-funded Green Spaces & Flood Mitigation workshop (18 June) — featuring case studies, expert perspectives, and practical actions you can take to make a difference.
Whether you’re looking for inspiration or proven approaches, the toolkit showcases how London’s green spaces are tackling flood resilience in innovative and sustainable ways.
👉 Download the toolkit here
👉 Read our blog recap here
International Symposium on Green Urban Futures
📅 3–4 December 2025
📍 National Wine Centre, The University of Adelaide
As Adelaide transitions towards a hotter, drier future — with rapid population growth and increasing urban pressures — the need to rethink and re-green our cities has never been more urgent.
This two-day symposium will bring together leading international, national and local experts to explore innovative pathways to greener, healthier, and more resilient cities, through the lenses of:
🌱 Policy & planning
🌳 Trees & urban forests
🏙️ Built environment
💡 Social sciences & economics
❤️ Public health & education
We’re delighted to announce that Prof. Prashant Kumar (University of Surrey) will be among our speakers, sharing insights into the GREENIN Network Plus and the indoor green revolution.
Join us to be part of this vital conversation shaping the future of Adelaide — and cities worldwide.
Register now HERE.
Explore and Share Research on Blue and Green Infrastructure
Don’t forget to visit the RECLAIM resources page, where you’ll find a growing collection of academic and research papers covering all aspects of blue and green infrastructure. You’re also welcome to contribute—simply click the link to explore the library or submit your own work to share with the community
Webinar #41 - CoolSchools & Urban Greening "How to" Toolkit
We are pleased to announce Webinar #41 of the RECLAIM Network Plus Webinar Series on 1st October 2025 - 12:30-13:30 BST.
The RECLAIM Network Webinar Series consists of monthly one-hour online sessions. Each webinar has 2 speakers, each speaking for 20 minutes, with time for a Q&A afterwards. All the webinars are recorded to make it available for viewing on demand.
Further details of this event can be found here
Webinar #40 - Guildford Flood Alleviation Scheme & Introduction to GREENIN Network Plus
Thank you to everyone who attended Webinar #40. If you missed the webinar, you can watch the recording via the link below.
To view previous webinars in the series click here.
Add NEW Resources
An opportunity for you to submit your work relating to green and blue infrastructure via the new resource page on the RECLAIM website so others can read & benefit from your research.
Please submit your published papers, reports, policy briefs, tools and guidance documents here
RECLAIM Network Plus Membership
We currently have 706 members from a wide variety of sectors right across the globe, see our membership’s areas of interest below (see graph).
Below is the sign up link for the new membership form. Please share among your network, and especially encourage your contacts in city decision-making and local government to join.
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Our website lists all network activities. To view the RECLAIM Network Plus website click here
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