Microbiome-Inspired Green Infrastructure

= "an integrative system to promote healthy urban ecosystems, through multidisciplinary design. Specifically, MIGI is defined as nature-centric infrastructure restored and/or designed and managed to enhance health-promoting interactions between humans and environmental agents". [1]

Description

"MIGI is a a framework for managing urban construction projects so that multidisciplinary teams of researchers and practitioners can explicitly consider environmental microbiota in design and construction contexts, thereby increasing ecosystem functionality and public health.

MIGI is complex: it addresses the interaction of microbes soils, plants, buildings – and of course human bodies. Scientists are now mapping the microbial populations of cities, buildings, soils, and systems using the quantitative metrics of DNA sequence analysis.

One of MIGI’s pioneers, Dr Jake Robinson, describes in Probiotic Cities how environmental microbiota can be included in design and connstruction contexts, and thereby increasing ecosystem functionality. MIGI can thereby enhance the wellbeing urbanites living in super-hygienic environments. Being less exposed to health-promoting microbes, they are subject to all manner of chronic inflammatory disorders."

(sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167779924000052?)