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Hisi Tano | Five Senses - An Open Biophilic Design Commons A Forkable Materials Register for Community-Led Construction in Lake Victoria Ecologies and Beyond.

Biophilic design is not a recent invention from laboratories; it has deep roots in traditional building practices.
African builders have practised it for generations: earth walls that release the scent of rain, lemongrass planted at thresholds for arrival by fragrance, courtyard trees chosen for shade, sound, and food in one canopy.
In these traditions, every sense is engaged. Every material is local. Every decision is rooted in ecology, not aesthetics alone.

Biophilic design, therefore, is not an innovation; it is a return to indigenous wisdom already embedded in our environments through generations.
The soil already knew.

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