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Therapeutic Landscapes as Healing Places
Traditional Environments
- Health related qualities of specific physical
environments - Sanctuaries (holy places, places of refuge)
- Wilderness environments
- Spas
- Interaction between physical environment and
human activities
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Model of TL themes
- Inner/meaning
- Natural setting
- Built environment
- Sense of place
- Symbolic landscapes
- Everyday activities
- Outer/societal context
- Beliefs philosophies
- Social relations
- territoriality
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Physical Landscapes
- Surroundings conducive to physical and social
well-being - Nature
- Scenery
- Environment
- Interior exterior building design (impact
interaction, behaviour, e.g. awe of Roman baths)
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Wilderness Environments
- Pristine, harmonious landscapes
- Last frontier/wild places
- Environmental preservation/undisturbed
- Out of doors/open space
- Facilitates relaxation, restoration works as a
preventative measure in dealing with the stresses
of life
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Wilderness Environments
- Meaning
- Aesthetic
- Valued Association link with past/harmony with
nature - Environmental health - preservation
- Spiritual subjectively defined
- Reaction
- Restoration, healing, health
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Spiritual
- The spirituality of wilderness environments can
be either reputed and/or individually experienced - Reputed via cultural beliefs (folklore/legend)
- Experienced via existing in harmony with
nature/bond with nature/topophilia - Buddhist monasteries
- Retreat houses
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Wilderness Environments Reactions
- Invigorating/energizing
- Relaxation/Happiness
- New clear vision, feeling, knowing
- Sacred/spiritual
- Aesthetically pleasing/rich in natural beauty
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Sense of Place
- Lived geographies
- Everyday geographies
- Ordinary geographies
- Houses (e.g. home)
- Streets, parks, fields (e.g. neighbourhoods)
- Factories
- Offices
- Schools, etc.
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Parallels Therapeutic Communities
- Focused on mentally challenged
- Evolved as an attempt to replace the prevailing
poor conditions custodial care
(institutionalized guardian/keeper) in mental
hospitals with truly therapeutic environments
treatments
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Therapeutic Communities Guiding Principles
- A holistic view of patient treatment
- Fostering a spirit of community
- Permissiveness (allowing patients to act out
their problems) - Promoting a democratic environment (active
participation in treatment) - Preparation to take up social roles in outside
world
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TL Restorative Environments (RE)
- Continuum of landscapes capable of supporting
human health well-being - RE ?Principal objective is user stimulation
enjoyment (often realized indirectly) - TL ? patient treatment wellness (often achieved
through direct interaction with the landscape)
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Therapeutic Communities Extensions
- Non-hospital situations
- Other groups outside of mentally challenged
- Juvenile delinquents
- Handicapped disturbed children
- Drug addicts
- Intentional communities
- Personal growth, social action, belief systems
- Initiated by New Age, Christian, back-to-the
land, Environmental, Egalitarian (equal rights)
movements
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Therapeutic Hospital Environments
- Patient placed in the centre
- various strategies specific to
- integrating nature in the design
- creating the built environment for therapy
- interpreting symbols, and
- fostering social relations
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