Krista

i just feel in the right place thank you all.

samwel kimani, a fouth year student in bachelor of Landscape architecture from JKUAT-kenya .i am happy to to join the student lounge. please say hi.

i m start working on my thesis, my topic is about Japanese Zen garden on its therapeutic function. is there anyone familiar with Zen garden or any relate area?

Hello everyone, I’m ‘surviving’ the Masters in LA program at the Polytechinic University of Puerto Rico.

I have more more class to go, the thesis… uggg. Hopefully I will graduate in May 2011.

I’m looking forward to help and get help from all of you.

Take care. :))

“Make it Pretty and They Will Come: The Role of Aesthetics in Patient Satisfaction.” New TLN Blog post.

“Therapy in the Desert” – Guest postt by TLN member Brice Bradley: Three healing gardens in the Phoenix, AZ area.

hello friends…
I’m looking for some help, ideas, or suggestions about my thesis topic (a sustainable waste management into a park or simply “Garbage Park”)…wherein, i want to run the park that depends on the sustainable waste management, like cost efficient and effective waste to energy methods and how it can be a sustainable,,,, etc…thanks…[Read more]

Sustainable AND Restorative Landscapes: Sustainable Sites Initiative’s Pilot Projects, Four To Watch http://www.healinglandscapes.org/blog.

This from Susan Erickson, Chair of the ASLA Healthcare and Therapeutic Design Professional Practice Network. If you are a member of that group (and maybe even if you’re not – worth contacting Susan about if you’re interested), please consider submitting an article for the next newsletter. Great way to share information, get exposure, and connect…[Read more]

New article that you all might be interested in: “Gardens for Recovery.”

I know many of you are concerned with the cost of Labash….well let me reassure you about what you are getting for the money!!!

2 dinners fully catered
2 lunches
Open bar for 3 nights…come on guys you can’t beat this
Tours (fees included in reg price)
Transportation to all of our events and tours
Amazing Lectures by: Mark Rios, Walter Hood,…[Read more]

Hi there,

nice to see this group on L8L. I’m hoping to find information, reference, or anything else that can help me doing my thesis about healing garden and its relation with the patient’s health recovery. Esp. the design concept and its criteria. So far, i have a few articles by Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes, and also Ulrika. Anyone can tell…[Read more]

Hi All,

I’m new to your group and new to landscape architecture, currently enrolled in the masters program at the Illinois institute of Technology in Chicago.

I was hoping to gain some insight from this group with regards to healing gardens and urban agriculture. My latest school project requires both programs previously mentioned. If you have…[Read more]

Hi everyone..
I’m a last year student of Landscape Architecture major in Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia ..
nice to meet you all..
hope that I can learn more in here..
😀

Live! New Therapeutic Landscapes Network website: http://www.healinglandscapes.org

The ASLA Student Awards were announced today, and this one looks germane to the topic of Therapeutic Landscapes:

Residential Design Category HONOR AWARD
The Productive Landscape: Urban Housing for Autistic Adults
John Gough, Student ASLA, and Adam C. Nordfors, Student ASLA
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Faculty adviser: Kim Steele

I…[Read more]

I like new name of the group. Word healing reminds me also of the
intrinsic values of nature, and therapeutic more of practice specific for humans. So it seems this name includes both, healing power of nature by itself and horticulture therapy gardens made by human hands. Bye

Check out Land8Lounge member Jason King’s review of Esther Sternberg’s new book, Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being. An excellent review of an excellent new book.

And new InformeDesign article review on Children’s Use of Accessible Playgrounds.

Conference in Dubrovnik: Resocialization-benefits from nature, I put album of photos finally on my folio, so you can see them 🙂 . I find articles send by this group really interesting, bye. Marina