Sensory gardens – healing spaces and healthcare – designing and plant selection

Wojciech Kocki


Department of Architecture, Urban and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Lublin University of Technology (Poland)

Bartłomiej Kwiatkowski


Department of Architecture, Urban and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Lublin University of Technology (Poland)

Abstract

Sensory gardens are an example of combining the achievements of many disciplines of science (architecture, psychology, gardening) that, when used in an appropriate way, create places with unconventional influence on a healthy and disabled person. In the spaces of these gardens all senses with different intensity are stimulated, they are not standard solutions of landscape architecture that create plant compositions – they are carefully composed places as a result of consultations with many specialists and potential users of these places to achieve best influence in their future well-being. Research has shown that places such as sensory gardens can affect the psyche, education and shorten the time of convalescence of ill patients.


Keywords:

sensory garden, design, hortherapy, therapy, psychology, architecture, gardening, landscape architecture

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Published
2017-06-30

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Kocki, W., & Kwiatkowski, B. (2017). Sensory gardens – healing spaces and healthcare – designing and plant selection. Teka Komisji Architektury, Urbanistyki I Studiów Krajobrazowych, 13(2), 53–58. https://doi.org/10.35784/teka.1701

Authors

Wojciech Kocki 

Department of Architecture, Urban and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Lublin University of Technology Poland

Authors

Bartłomiej Kwiatkowski 

Department of Architecture, Urban and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Lublin University of Technology Poland

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