Next week, from 18th to the 21st of July, The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) is returning to Singapore for the 2nd time to host the prestigious IFLA World Congress. The IFLA World Congress prides itself as the key contributor in landscape architectures, developing attractive, livable, equitable, and sustainable environments of the future. Many of its project revolve Read More
Author: Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo
President and Founder of NeuroLandscape. Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture and Urban Ecology, in her research she explores the relationship between the different features of the natural and built environment’s influence on human health and well-being. She has successfully incorporated neuroscience tools to investigate the changes in brainwave oscillation in people exposed to different types of scenery. She has introduced and operationalized the term contemplative landscape and proposed a quantitative assessment scale - a Contemplative Landscapes Model (CLM) - to identify most beneficial landscapes for mental health in terms of passive exposure. She is an author of "Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes", Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health. She is continuing her research on therapeutic landscapes under two ongoing Horizon Europe projects: GreenME and GreenInCities.
Virtual Reality Applications
Virtual Reality (VR) has long been a subject of interest for many to be the next phase of immersive entertainment. While many see it as an unnecessary gimmick, VR was never just a fad. With history dating as early as the 1860’s, VR has time and time again resurfaced more advanced and more capable. In 2016, Read More
EKLIPSE Expert meeting, London
This is an interview with three members of EKLIPSE project talking about the latest Expert Group meeting in London which brought us closer to the final output of a project related to answering the question on which types and components of urban green and blue spaces have significant influence on human mental health and well-being.
A Place for Yourself Everywhere.
Research has proven that time alone in outdoor nature is beneficial for our mental and physical health. One of the Contemplative Landscape characteristics is the “sense of solitude” that one can experience when immersed in the landscape. Yet, the urban high stress pace of life “enjoyed” by many across the globe makes finding such a Read More
Hidden in Plain Sight
Urban landscape surrounding most of us nowadays, offers more than just the face value that we see. Urban ecosystem services are presenting terrific potentials for the growing communities. Landscape design for health and well-being goes hand in hand with the design for fresh produce and urban farming opportunities. There is plenty evidence to show this dynamics. Read More
Green Exposure and Virtual Reality
The right balance of surrounding vegetation is a key to a restorative experience the VR study confirms. Design for compatibility in the landscape setting is also one of the Contemplative Landscape Features and feeling of vegetation should be somewhere in the middle of wild and tamed.Article can be found here
Park Prescriptions Programs
The lovely video about Park Prescriptions program in USA. Such programs are emerging also in other countries like in UK and Singapore. https://www.facebook.com/healthyparkshealthypeoplebayarea/videos/1230007380449827/
Contemplative Landscape Model featured in a book!
The Contemplative Landscape Model (CLM) was developed by our scientists to measure and define the subjectivity in landscape aesthetics. Utilizing 7 categories to rank any given landscape view. What’s considered as aesthetic is often instinctual, yet what makes it so often overlooked. Take a look outside and you’ll see how easy it is for the CLM Read More
Healthy landscapes | UNISCAPE International Conference
“Assessing Relevant Knowledge Related to the Types and Characteristics of Urban Green & Blue Spaces Having a Significant Impact on Human Mental health and Well-being” to be presented at Healthy landscapes | UNISCAPE International Conference in Bologna (6-8 June) by Eklipse: Knowledge and Learning Mechanism on BiodiversityWhile participating in the Eklipse project we are looking Read More
This is Your Brain on Nature
Many overlaps with what we’re doing here at NeuroLandscape: EEG, nature, mental health, Frederick Law Olmsted, Singapore.”When we spend time in green space, there is something profound going on.”https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/01/call-to-wild/