Unzoo Sanctuary Case-Study

2023 Taipei Zoo Planning and Design Conference. Jon was a (virtual) keynote speaker, presenting his paper “The Unzoo Sanctuary, a Case-Study.”

Nocturnal Animals

2023 MoonJam: Enrichment and welfare for nocturnal animals. Jon advised Fiona French, Tiff Leek, and colleagues on the recently held computer-interactive online brainstorming workshop and will assist with publishing the results.

Visitor-Animal Interactions

2023 Enhancing Visitor – Animal Interactions in the Modern Zoo: a designer’s perspective. Jon wrote this Chapter 5 in the book “Human Animal Interactions in the Modern Zoo: Merging Science and Practice” Edited by Eduardo Fernandez & Sally L. Sherwen. It is...

Disabled and Aging Animals

2023 Facility Design for Disabled and Aging Wild Animals. Jon wrote this Chapter 6 in the book “Optimal Welfare of Aging Wild Animals in Human Care” in 2021 and the book is finally available from Springer-Nature Publishers.

Future Planning

2023 How Do we Plan for the Zoo Exhibit of the Future? This paper, a collaboration between Jon, Eduardo Fernandez, and James Brereton, was published in October 2023 by Applied Animal Behaviour Science and by years-end already had over one thousand reads on Research...

Reptiles

2021 ReptileJam: Designing Enrichment for Reptiles in Captivity. Jon advised Fiona French and Leah Williams in planning and facilitating this computer-interactive online brainstorming workshop with published results.