60 American Horticultural Therapy Association
Gardens and Healing Gardens
All over the world there is an increasing interest in
research results showing the impact of the physical
environment on people’s health and well-being.
The
realization that good...
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60 American Horticultural Therapy Association
Gardens and Healing Gardens
All over the world there is an increasing interest in
research results showing the impact of the physical
environment on people’s health and well-being.
The
realization that good design, both indoors and
outdoors, not only generates functional efficiency but
also strengthens and improves health processes has
given rise to a new branch of architecture, called
Design and Health (Dilani, 2001).
Knowledge and
awareness of how good design as well as bad design
may influence people’s well-being is increasing among
architects as well as among interior decorators and
landscape architects.
An expression of design and
health in landscape architecture is to be found in the
movement around healing gardens, i.
e.
gardens that in
different ways may influence the visitor in a positive
way (Cooper Marcus & Barnes, 1999).
In Sweden today, the concept of healing has several
connotations, some quite concrete, others more
spiri
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