Learn more on health benefits of nature environment
After this lecture, you will be able to answer:
What are the environmental features that influence wellbeing
Understand the research design of environmental wellbeing
Based on your experience, what features in the environment will influence your emotion?
How to measure the features that you think are influential to the wellbeings?
What innovative ideas/tools are helpful to measure the benefits of the natural environment?
After this lecture, you will be able to answer:
How important is the environment that influences your health.
How to improve your wellbeing by changing the environment.
Sensitive to the natural environment and get benefits from it.
How important do you think the natural environment is in your daily life?
How to measure the features that you feel are influential to you?
How do you improve the relationship between nature and you?
After this lecture, you will be able to answer:
Explain the roles of simulated nature in human health and well-being.
Use simulated nature as parts of health and well-being strategies.
Explain the links between simulated nature towards healthful physical environment.
Have you encounter simulated natures in your daily life? Where are they and what are they doing there?
In what aspects can simulated natures replace real ones? To which extent?
Try watching a nature video right now. Then compare it to your experience of real nature. What are the differences that you notice?
After this lecture, you will be able to answer:
What is environmental Qi?
What is biophilic design?
Understand why and how they impact human health.
Can you perceived the environmental Qi or biophilic design in nearby nature?
Based on your experience, what kind of environment Qi influences your health and wellbeing?
To what extend does the biophilic features in the environment influence your health and wellbeing?
After this lecture, you will be able to answer:
Evidence-based design process
Associations in physical, social environment and health aging
Design suggestions for aging-friendly neighborhood green spaces
How about COVID-19 situation?
How about different regions?
After this lecture, you will be able to answer:
How to start a natural healing program
Effects of supported natural environments (gardens)
Designing a natural healing program in a local site or community
Have you participant any natural healing program or green excise? What did you feel? Did you experience any effects of supported nature?
Pick up a site or a local community that can support a natural healing program
Planning healing activities in this site or the local community
After this lecture, you will be able to answer:
Understand the distributions of the vacant lots and buildings in the City of Baltimore
Describe how vacant lots affect people
Explain who are the most affected by the vacant lots
Learn a few local solutions for the vacant lots in Druid Heights, Baltimore
Who can afford landscape architecture services?
Can landscape architects serve everyone regardless their income, race, etc.? What are some creative ways to include everyone in landscape architecture services?
After this lecture, you will be able to answer:
Tell the difference among different types of research design in the field of environmental health
Give examples of observational and experimental studies examining nature in the built environment and human health
Brainstorm: How do desert ants navigate the vast desert and find their way home? Give your ideas of an observational and an experimental study.
After this lecture, you will be able to answer:
Identify independent variables (IV) and dependent variables (DV)
Recognize types of independent variables
Identify simple and complex research designs.
Define a “main effect.”
Indicate whether an interaction effect can be examined.
What are some hypothetical IV-DV relations you are curious about? What main effect questions could you ask with these variables?
How might the independent variable might be operationalized? Is it an active or attribute variable? Qualitative or quantitative?
What’s an example of a complex research design?
Can you identify the IV’s and DV’s when you read a published study? Is the study design simple or complex? Are the IV’s qualitative or quantitative, categorical or continuous? What research questions can be examined? Start with the abstract. Try these :
Li, D., & Sullivan, W. C. (2016). Impact of views to school landscapes on recovery from stress and mental fatigue. Landscape and urban planning, 148, 149-158
Rigolon, A., Browning, M., & Jennings, V. (2018). Inequities in the quality of urban park systems: An environmental justice investigation of cities in the United States. Landscape and Urban Planning, 178, 156-169.
After this lecture, you will be able to answer:
To describe the theoretical foundations of the field of landscape design and planning
To recognize specific skills and methods for strategic and long-term site analysis, evaluation, and planning
To inspire more thoughts or methodologies of landscape design on public health
We need a multi-disciplinary cooperation to investigate influence of urban environments on human health and well-being. In your opinion, what knowledge and methods we need learn from other disciplines?
How do landscape architectures use their expertise to contribute on human health and well-being with the changing of the society and environment.