Interaction by Design: Bringing People and Plants Together for Health and Well-Being: An International Symposium / Edition 1

by Candice Shoemaker, Elizabeth R. Messer Diehl, Jack Carman, Nancy Carman, Jane Stoneham

Overview

These proceedings contain the presentations from a landmark joint conference between AHTA and PPC, the two leading organizations promoting research, teaching, and practice in horticultural therapy. In this contributed volume, the top names in horticultural therapy address universal design of outdoor spaces and their therapeutic applications, the theme of the conference. The most outstanding feature of this volume is the combination of information from designers of therapeutic and healing gardens and the practitioners that use the gardens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813803234
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/07/2002
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 10.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Candice A. Shoemaker is currently associate professor in the Department of Horticulture, Forestry and Recreation Resources at Kansas State University—Manhattan. She was formerly the director of the Chicago Botanical Center and from 1991-1996, she served as assistant professor, faculty coordinator and program director; horticulture; Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Contributors.

Foreword.

Preface.

Section I. Communications with the Horticulture, Health Care, an Design Communities.

Section II. Design for Human Health and Well-Being.

Section III. Therapeutic Design Applications.

Section IV. Research.

Section V. Abstracts.

Section VI. Appendix.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

This collection brings together 33 articles and a large selection of abstracts on the therapeutic use of gardens and nature. Among the case studies are two designs for Alzheimer's garden projects, use of gardens in hospital and mental hospital settings, methods for studying responses to nature, use of horticultural and reminiscence therapies with cognitive-impaired elderly, horticultural intervention for stress management, and several articles on facilitating communication between the horticulture, healthcare, and design communities (to which the contributors belong). Shoemaker teaches horticulture, forestry, and recreation resources at Kansas State U., Manhattan. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR