In this final episode of season two, we interview each other about our work on ancient bathing and gardens and their relationship to human health and wellbeing. We explore how we might reevaluate our own practices to help with sustainability.

 Dr. Giacomo Savani, a fellow at St. Andrews is working on a new project related to female health and bathing practices in the ancient and early modern periods, and considers the role the environment played in that. 

Dr. Patty Baker, is founder  of Pax in Natura, a floral designer, and former academic, speaks about her research on ancient gardens and their impact on mental and physical wellbeing. 

 If you would like to take part in this podcast please contact us either at info@paxinnature.com or via the contact page at www.paxinnature.com

Dr. Vanessa Champion is a classicist and founder of the Journal of Biophilic Design  and The Space Doctors, who speaks with us about the term Biophilia and Environmental Psychology and how modern scholarship and ideas are grounded in historical conceptions. In this episode, there is an interplay between Ancient Greco-Roman concepts of healthy spaces and the ways in which we can use their ideas in modern design.

The Journal of Biophilic Design can be accessed here.

The Space Doctors can be accessed here. 

Dr. Ismene Miliaresis received her Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Virginia and her research focuses on the sustainability of heating systems in ancient Roman baths and homes,particularly at Ostia and Pompeii, and she is the Assistant Director of the Palazzo Imperiale Project at Ostia. She has worked on numerous excavations in California, on Crete at Eleutherna, at Morgantina in Sicily, at Pollena Trocchia near Naples, at Salapia in Puglia, and for four years at Villa Magna at Anagni where she supervised the excavation of the cisterns andwater systems of the imperial Antonine villa. Miliaresis has also consulted on the bath structuresat Cosa and at Carsulae. 

Today, she speaks about how her background in engineering has helped her consider many questions about the sustainability of Roman heating.