Tara Hipwood is a Chartered Architect and an Assistant Professor in Sustainable and Environmental Design in the Department of Architecture at Northumbria University. Tara’s research interests focus around the intersections between occupant wellbeing, the built environment, and the natural environment – and perhaps most importantly where the distinction between these elements breaks down. Tara’s Ph.D. studies, explored a nexus-of-practice perspective towards teleological influences on owner-occupiers’ improvements to their home environments and the implications this has for encouraging sustainable retrofit.Tara is currently developing this theoretical approach further to explore how regenerative design principles support practices of care – both social and ecological – in post-industrial communities. This includes exploring the integration of visual methods and creative practice into her existing theoretical framework.