Alexia Anastassiadis

Hi Katrina, the best way to find out about horticulture therapy certificate programs, in the Bay Area or anywhere, is to contact the American Horticultural Therapy Association (http://www.ahta.org/). I know that Marni Barnes teaches a class on therapeutic landscape design at the UC Berkeley Extension, and there may be others as well. But for hort.…[Read more]

Hello Katrina,
I believe that the SF Botanical Garden offers a Certificate Program. You can follow this link to get in contact with the program (http://caahta.org/education.htm). I’m not familiar with this particular course, but having spent some time with Teresia Hazen’s class at Legacy Health in Portland, HT is a rewarding and enriching…[Read more]

FYI – Public comments on the Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks Draft 2008 are now posted on the Sustainable Sites Initiative website for review. http://www.sustainablesites.org/report/

Try this website for requirements to remain accredited – scroll down to see the answers:
http://www.everblueenergy.com/leed-exam-prep-leed-2009-update.html

Welcome, Chris and Marina! Chris, can’t wait to see your photos – will you post them here? Would also be happy to share on the TLDBlog, or elsewhere and of course we’ll want to add any sites to the Database that aren’t already there.

And Marina, tell us more about the conference, it sounds fascinating. I wonder if we can get trascripts, or if…[Read more]

Hi!
I just came from a conference in Dubrovnik about resocialization with help of nature. Theme was therapeutic gardens, horticultural therapy, landscapes with healing essences – my special reasarch theme. There was also guest from Washington University in Seattle, Daniel Winterbottom, great work in therapeutic landscape architecture. So, hear you…[Read more]

Thanks Naomi!
I found this healing gardens in United Kingdom.
http://www.westleydesign.co.uk/what-we-do/healing.html

I have finally found a home! Hello group! Clare Cooper Marcus helped send me on a journey to thirteen therapeutic gardens and I hope to share my pictures and resources with everyone. We have an incredible honor as both landscape architects and care givers and the more we collaborate and share our work and research, the better care we’ll give to…[Read more]

p.s. Sandra, if you find other gardens that aren’t on the TLD, please let me know and I’ll add them – that goes for anywhere, including Portugal. We are always expanding our database.

hello everyone!
Does anyone knows examples of hospital’s therapeutic gardens in Canada?
thanks
sandra

Latest TLDBlog post is on medicinal herbs in the healing garden: http://tldb.blogspot.com.

Los niñ@s anuncian … ¿Las ciudades escuchan?
Conferencia del pedagogo italiano Francesco Tonucci en Buenos Aires.
Martes 28 de abril, a las 17 hs. Sala Casacuberta, Teatro San Martín.
Entrada libre y gratuita.

Muy buena la muestra profesional en el Congreso de Viveristas. Una suma de los proveedores del sector, con presencia de organismos oficiales, instituciones y empresas. Hasta el 18 de abril, de 9.30 a 18 hs, en lo que es el predio de la Fiesta de la Flor en Escobar.

En la web de la ASLA tenés la legislación de los distintos estados estadounidenses.
El sitio es: http://www.asla.org/StateGovtAffairsLicensure.aspx
Los yanquis son los que tienen más evolucionado todo el sistema jurídico de la profesión. Saludos.

estoy buscando antecedentes de leyes que regulen la actividad de los paisajistas, cualquier dato sera bienvenido! gracias

En el Encuentro CICOOP-ZOOBA, los socios de la Red Argentina del Paisaje tienen descuento.

La Red Argentina del Paisaje auspicia el Primer Encuentro de Patrimonio Artístico, Arquitectónico y Paisajístico de Parques, Zoológicos y Afines, organizado por CICOP, que se realizará en el Zoológico de Buenos Aires los días 2 y 3 de junio de 2009. Información completa en: http://www.zoobuenosaires.com.ar/index.php?educacion;section=135
Saludos. Fabio

Catinca, her name is Sheila Taft, and she’s probably in the Seattle, Washington area. Maybe worth looking her up?

Catinca, here’s an interview with a horticultural therapist about therapeutic gardens with some mention of the importance of scent. Alas, no text and so no reference of the evidence she refers to, but if you can catch her name, maybe you can contact her. And please, share what you learn with us!…[Read more]

Con motivo de la celebración del III Mes de la Arquitectura Paisajista el Instituto de Paisaje de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Católica de Córdoba llevará a cabo una serie de actividades. La apertura será el miércoles 15 de abril, a las 18hs., en las instalaciones de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la UCC (aula MAP). El encue…[Read more]