Person-Place Interactions: Landscape Choreographies of Self-Regulation

Costa, Sandra and Coles, Richard (2025) Person-Place Interactions: Landscape Choreographies of Self-Regulation. In: Designing Therapeutic Environments: Social and Cultural Practice for Health and Well-Being. Routledge. ISBN 9781032382760

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Abstract

This chapter considers the process and importance of person-place interactions by exploring the connections people develop with places within the remit of reinforcing positive life experiences, life satisfaction and health, adopting the idea of landscape choreography. Ideas are derived from research involving planned walks in various urban green environments embracing a methodology involving the collection and analysis of user-based narratives. It explores the nature of these encounters, to consider how people live out their individual choreographies of landscape experience realising personal affordances and negotiating the experience towards positivity. It further considers the role of places in defining the self, expectations, in mediating and reinforcing personal well-being, and stresses the importance of easy access to quality urban landscapes designed on biophilic principles, or that promote routine contact with the natural world, as a biophilic pathway for self-regulation.

Item Type:	Book Section
Dates:	Date Event 17 April 2025 Published
Subjects:	CAH13 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01-01 - architecture CAH13 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01-03 - landscape design
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > College of Architecture
Depositing User:	Gemma Tonks
Date Deposited:	17 Mar 2025 14:59
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2025 14:59
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16238

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