Abstract

This chapter aims to create an understanding of and opportunities for practicing landscape architects to create outdoor environments as a resource for health and well-being for people with stress-related mental illness. The overall intention is to describe how the care recipients’ use of gardens and parks can lead to healing and well-being, which generates theories and tools for use in the health design process. The work is based on research and development in Alnarp Rehabilitation Garden, which has led to the development of a theoretical framework for the design of healing and supportive environments. This work has led to methods for evidence-based design, which contain important environmental qualities (perceived sensory dimensions) and contact zones with the outdoors that are used as part of a holistic view for the use of the outdoor environment in a healing process.

Published in

Title: Routledge Handbook of Urban Landscape Research
ISBN: 978-0-367-62525-2, eISBN: 978-1-003-10956-3
Publisher: Routledge

SLU Authors

• Grahn, Patrik

  • Department of People and Society, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Stoltz, Jonathan

  • Department of People and Society, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Bengtsson, Anna

  • Department of People and Society, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Associated SLU-program

Built environment
SLU Future One Health
SLU Urban Futures


Sustainable Development Goals

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages


UKÄ Subject classification

Landscape Architecture


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003109563-25

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/119779