Description

The health care industry is the latest to understand how investment in connecting people with nature is a powerful way to reinvent itself. This session looks at how interior/exterior landscapes and other strategies for engaging nature achieve qualitative goals in better patient, family, and staff experiences and quantitatively improve patient outcomes.

• Identify different disciplines' perspectives on nature and healing in the designed environment.
• Analyze the potential of spaces within therapeutic environments that could better convey nature.
• Understand the research of the healing power of nature, what is known and not known.
• Describe how research can inform design.