Design Well, Live Healthy Being around trees, shrubs and other plants improves people’s mental health and give us more positive outlook onto our lives. Spending time outside every day, decreases the risk of being depressed or stressed, and thus burden on our mental health is greatly reduced. The power of plants for our physical and mental wellbeing is Read More
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An exclusive interview with Professor Chang, Chun-Yen, NTU, UIUC
Happy to share the newest interview from one of the world’s leading experts in the area of evidence-based landscape design, Prof. Chang, Chun-Yen from National Taiwan University. Professor Chang’s background is in landscape architecture, but his research interests have led him far beyond this discipline into examining the relationships between landscapes and human health in Read More
See what Contemplative Landscapes do to your brain!
Highly Contemplative Landscapes alter the brainwaves pattern of the people exposed to them! More about the mechanisms of this phenomenon and how we discovered it can be found in this peer-reviewed paper published recently by Frontiers in Psychiatry, Public Mental Health section. Full text already available for free here! https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00317/full
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.
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
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
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
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