Shaping Futures of Wellbeing

Imagine a world where the spaces we inhabit are not passive backdrops, but active partners in human health and belonging. Nina Dee Rattenbury is a global leader at the intersection of design, strategy, and research—helping organisations and individuals create environments that cultivate a future of human wellbeing.

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A spatial designer and strategist whose work explores how architecture and design can advance health, beauty, and human flourishing. She leads Yellow Arc & Partners, a Munich-based design consultancy pioneering wellbeing real estate and evidence-based spatial design. Consulting across APAC and EMEA, Nina brings a cross and trans-disciplinary approach shaped by experience in architectural interiors, styling, creative leadership, and business strategy. Bridging practice and research, her work creates environments that enhance quality of life and organisational performance. Engaging with embodiment, ecology, and aesthetics, she reimagines the built environment—and our experiences within it—as a catalyst for health and wellbeing.

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→ Homes | One Macquarie

→ Storytelling | Ethical Hiring Campaign

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→ Materiality | Ashgrove Residence

CLIENTS & CO-CREATORS

WESTFILED PLAZA

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SERPENTINE GALLERY

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WOODS BAGOT

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ECCO LEATHER

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ONE BLACKFRIERS

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WESTFILED PLAZA – SERPENTINE GALLERY – WOODS BAGOT – ECCO LEATHER – ONE BLACKFRIERS –

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Bring more wellbeing into your life!

Online Course & Workshop

Neuro-Somatic Design™ is an online course and workshop series exploring how the spaces we live and work in shape our wellbeing. It offers grounded knowledge and practical methods for the home, workplace, and everyday life—sustaining health, creativity, and a deeper sense of belonging.

What is Neuro-Somatics?

Neuro-somatics explores how the brain, nervous system, and body work together to shape our physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing. Applied to physical spaces, this approach integrates emerging research in neuroaesthetics and somaesthetics to understand how people respond to the built environment. It translates scientific insight and embodied practice into strategies for creating healthier, more meaningful places to live and work.

Unlike standard wellbeing frameworks, Neuro-Somatic Design™ positions beauty, sensory experience, including ecological awareness as essential—not optional—to human and organisational thriving. It is both a philosophy and a practical toolkit, guiding individuals and organisations to design environments and experiences that support wellbeing.

For more background on how this work has emerged, read Nina’s bio or for related articles check out the latest journals.

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