This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being. Therapeutic environments are settings that comprise the physical, ecological, psychological, spiritual, and social environments associated with treatment and healing. Throughout the chapters, the understanding of therapeutic environments is broadened through the exploration of specific Indigenous cultural and social dimensions. Case studies comprise a combination of research papers regarding the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of therapeutic environments and their application following traditional methods. This book contributes to the expanding body of knowledge focusing on the role of therapeutic environments and their role in shaping health and well-being through the development of new research methods. This book is essential for practitioners, scholars and students in architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, urban design, planning, geography, building science, public health, and environmental engineering.
This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being and explores specific Indigenous cultural and social dimensions of well-being. The chapters feature case studies, theoretical and application-based research, and photo essays.
Foreword Introduction Part
1. Socially and Culturally Responsive
Environments Theory
1. Healing Environments, Spatial Perception and Social
Inclusion
2. The Social Production of Therapeutic EnvironmentsNetworks,
Assemblages, Green and Blue Spaces, and Healthcare Spaces
3. Culture in
Health and Well-Being
4. Health and Therapeutic Environments
5. Sense of
Place and Sense of Belonging in Developing Culturally Appropriate Therapeutic
Environments
6. Engaging the Land with Healing Part
2. Socially and
Culturally Responsive Environments Case Studies
7. Therapeutic Landscapes
of Stillness
8. We Can Only Travel a Short Way Together
9. Nature,
Well-Being, and Trauma-Informed Design: Reframing the Landscape through the
Lens of Neuroscience
10. Reclaiming Space through Indigenous-Led Design:
Indigenous Design Studio at Brook McIlroy, Canada
11. Evidence-Based
Biophilic Healing Garden Design: A Case in China
12. Oxigen, Australia:
Practice-Based Research
13. Urban Greenery for Health: Sensory Gardens and
Improved Well-Being
14. Building on Tradition and Envisioning New Futures:
Indigenous Spatial Practices for Health and Well-Being
15. Therapeutic
Implications of Gardening: Hermann Hesses Garden
16. Person-Place
Interactions: Landscape Choreographies of Self-Regulation
17. Two Row,
Canada: Practice-Based Research
18. Promoting Healthy and Age-Friendly
Communities: Challenges for Urban Planning and Design in Estonia
19. The
Power of Place-Making: Community-Led Interventions for Healthier Cities
20.
Designing Healthy and Sustainable Landscapes in All Contexts: Healing
Environments from Around the World Part
3. The Language of Therapeutic
Environments
21. Designing Therapeutic Environments
Bruno Marques is the associate dean (academic development) and associate professor in landscape architecture at Victoria University of Wellington, Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation. He is also the president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA).
Jacqueline McIntosh is a senior lecturer in architecture and building science at the Wellington School of Architecture of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and the former director of properties and facilities for Canadian Airlines International.
