Sustainability challenges demand built environment solutions that will address concerns such as health and well-being, energy efficiency, waste and carbon reduction. It can be argued that conventional education is not designed to cultivate well-being. Rethinking education helps address the challenges we currently face globally. Meditation and Sustainable Farming as a form of education can contribute to sustainability and well-being in communities. Farming contributes to biodiversity and ecosystem services by providing habitats, reducing food miles and creating more green spaces, reducing the carbon footprint left by our everyday activities while Meditation contributes to mindfulness, social and emotional well-being.

My proposal for the Madelvic site in Granton, Edinburgh is one of adaptive re-use, with its main purpose to create an environment which promotes the health and well-being of its residents and with learning activities that include Meditation to Grow, Vertical Farming, Traditional Farming and Soil-free Growing with opportunities to develop and create their own variations or species of plants.