From December until now has been a real marathon: 2 workshops, 8 European partners, 150 pages, dozens of meetings (real and online), tons of work and research done…whew!Before all thought and reflections from this time fade away, I wanted to share some of the experiences here, as a guide for those eyeing the possibility of 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.
Cities of the Future
“By 2050, about three-quarters of the world’s population will live in cities.”All the more reason to investigate the importance of green spaces in urban areas to help keep these future inhabitants as healthy as possible.”To keep cities green is the challenge of future cities.”And we are prepared to contribute to this challenge!https://news.nationalgeographic.com/energy/2015/12/151212-your-shot-future-cities-pictures/
Contemplative Spaces: New Approaches in Design Research
GRAPHIC BY GIUSEPPINA ASCIONEWe’re working towards taking care of outdoor spaces. Good to see others on the same track with indoor spaces. We can’t spend all our time outdoors after all…or can we? ^_^We also appreciate how mindfulness can be summed up in the form of a tree. Extra points!https://www.neuroarchitectura.com/articles/2016/5/9/contemplative-spaces-towards-a-new-design-approach
Green neighborhoods linked to improved mental health
More great news from the Universities of Oxford and Hong Kong!https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/design/mental-health-green-neighbourhoods-link-depression-anxiety-stress-uk-cities-a8289076.html
Amazon Unveils Biophilic Workspace
Would you like to work in a place like this?Amazon has unveiled its newest workplace that’s all about the biophilia. The structure calls to mind the domed gardens at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, but this is a place for brainstorming and meetings instead of tourism.“We need to overcome this sense that you should Read More
Green Exercise Partnership, NHS Scotland
Scotland gets the importance of green space for health.Their National Health Service has teamed up with the Forestry Commission Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage Heritage to create the NHS Greenspace Demonstration Project to ensure the inclusion of green space at health facilities around the country. They’ve even gone a step further with the Green Exercise Read More
Volunteering Opportunity in Singapore – Communications
Our NGO is looking for a volunteer who will take care of our PR and Communications in Singapore.JOB DESCRIPTION & SCOPEWe would like to especially invite students or graduates from the appropriate university course, however, we are open for offers from other people too. The selected person will help us build the NeuroLandscape communications strategy and launch Read More
Colour-blindness and appreciation of green landscape?
This might be a very pertinent question… If contact with nature and the visual stimuli from being surrounded by predominantly GREEN environment is so beneficial for our overall wellbeing… what about colour-blind people? Of course researchers have already asked similar questions and we now know that some types of colour-blindness can even have their advantages. The Read More
Landform – Contemplative Landscape Features Series
One of the core questions in our quest for making landscapes more contemplative have been identifying what actually makes a space contemplative or not. Having discussed the importance of long-distance views in an earlier post (click here), today, we turn to a characteristic under the label ‘landform’ in defining a contemplativeness of landscape. So what hides Read More
Barack Obama’s portrait is very green
Isn’t it interesting how an artist’s choice to place A LOT of greenery on a president’s portrait can turn into an intense, not only artistic, but also cultural, political, ideological, racial and environmental debate?We cannot deny that this portrait also got our attention exactly because of that beautiful background the artist, Kehinde Wiley chose to Read More