Healthcare/Therapeutic Design
Education Session - Panel Format
1.5 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW
Sara Carr, Assoc. ASLA
Assistant Professor
Northeastern University
Jennifer Roe
DeShong Professor of Design + Health, Director, Center for Design + Health
School of Architecture, University of Virginia
William Sullivan, ASLA
Professor and Head of Landscape Architecture
University of Illinois
Edie Zusman
Neurosurgeon
NorthBay Healthcare
Interaction with nature has quantifiable positive effects on stress, fatigue, and even academic performance. This session discusses the latest research at the intersection of neuroscience and landscape architecture and how these studies make a case for the integration of landscape in environments for schoolchildren, the elderly, and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities.