Walking together: The embodied and mobile production of a therapeutic landscape

Doughty, Karolina

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2013.08.009

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“…Third, the hybrid MCDM model combining DANP and Modified VIKOR methods was used to evaluate the existing POS for proposing continuous and efficient improvement strategies for healthy aging and for avoiding "stopgap piecemeal" practice. Previous studies have shown that three mechanisms, namely physical activity, contact with nature, and social interaction, can influence each other [20,41,46,50]. Our findings suggest that nature enjoyment (D 2 ) is the most influential dimension, and the degree of influence of social interaction (D 3 ) is the lowest among all dimensions.…”

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“…For example, Booth et al [20] attempted to identify the social cognitive and perceived environmental influences-particularly social support, facility access, and neighborhood safety-that are associated with physical activity in elderly adults. Shared movement can also produce supportive social spaces [50]. Perceived green spaces has a moderating role in the relationship between the availability of green space types and social contacts among aging neighbors [41], particularly in inner-city POS [46].…”

Section: Mechanisms and Environmental Attribute Constructionmentioning

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Public Open Space Development for Elderly People by Using the DANP-V Model to Establish Continuous Improvement Strategies towards a Sustainable and Healthy Aging Society

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Abstract:With the global trend of population aging, how to integrate the health needs of elderly people into public open space (POS) development while taking into account public interest is a major challenge in the 21st century. Although the issues of elderly people's health and their POS needs are receiving increasing attention, research on continuous improvement strategies for POS for healthy aging societies is still limited. Hence, this study explored continuous improvement strategies thoroughly and systematically by using the DANP-V model. The findings revealed cognitive differences between expert and elderly groups. Moreover, water features, waste management, and co-maintenance spaces were the three criteria with the largest gap value. POS improvement has previously been implemented based on a priority order ranked from the criterion with largest gap value to the criterion with the smallest one. However, an alternative approach based on the cause-effect relationship is proposed in this paper. The study findings have both theoretical and practical implications for POS planners and designers.

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Section: Mechanisms and Environmental Attribute Constructionmentioning

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Public Open Space Development for Elderly People by Using the DANP-V Model to Establish Continuous Improvement Strategies towards a Sustainable and Healthy Aging Society

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“…The presence of valued company during these experiences allowed moments of quiet comfortable companionship to be interspersed with easy conversation. This contributed to a shared or 'relational' sense of wellbeing (Doughty, 2013), creating deeper feelings of connection, both to each other and to the places/activities in question. This is illustrated in Figure 5 below, in which Pete describes one of his weekly canoeing trips around the south coast with his wife, Jenny, explaining where they sped up, slowed down or lingered.…”

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Seeking everyday wellbeing: The coast as a therapeutic landscape

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Phoenix

Lovell

et al. 2015

Social Science & Medicine

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Recent research suggests coastal environments may promote human health and wellbeing. This article explores the diverse coastal experiences sought out by residents of two towns in south west England to promote and preserve their personal wellbeing in the context of their everyday lives. It draws on the findings of an in-depth interpretive study conducted from May to November 2013 that examined the relative contribution of varied green and blue space experiences to individual wellbeing through the life course. Personalised activity maps produced using accelerometer and Global Positioning System (GPS) data were used to guide in-depth geo-narrative interviews with a purposive sample of 33 participants. This was combined with a subset of nine case study go-along interviews in places deemed therapeutic by the participants themselves, offering deeper insight into the lived experiences and relationships playing out within such places. Situated in a novel adaptation of the therapeutic landscapes framework, this article explores how symbolic, achievement-oriented, immersive and social experiences contributed to participants' sense of wellbeing in their local coastal areas.Participants expressed particularly strong and often enduring connections to the local coastline, with different coastal stretches perceived to cater for varied therapeutic needs and interests, at multiple scales and intensities. The findings suggest the need for greater acknowledgement of people's emotional, deeply embodied and often shared connections to the coast within coastal management policy and practice, both nationally and internationally. Importantly, such efforts should recognise the fluid, dynamic nature of this land-sea boundary, and the valued therapeutic experiences linked to this fluidity.

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“…One area where the two productively meet are emotional and psychotherapeutic geographies (Philo and Parr, 2003;Davidson et al, 2009). Through studies focused on phobic/philic geographies, different approaches that combine theory and materiality demonstrate how health may or may not be enabled in place (Duff, 2010;Parr and Davidson, 2010;Doughty, 2013;Philo, 2014). Different culture and condition-specific, embodied, gendered and experiential accounts are drawn from within both green and blue space to provide more nuanced understandings of how enabling places work and how theoretical ideas on relational place are central to those articulations (Foley, 2011;Duff, 2012;Merchant, 2011;Doughty, 2013;Pitt, 2014).…”

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“…Combining quantitative and qualitative methods can help evaluate blue space as a health resource that needs to be protected, developed and managed (Nicholls, 2014). Both routes also offer interesting directions for a range of mental health studies associated with blue space, for example, work with people with severe mental illness and their specific engagements within blue space (Wylie, 2009;Doughty, 2013). The use of new technologies, such as GoPro cameras, accelerometers and GPS/GIS, may help gather affective health specific-responses in and from blue space environments, including the sub-aqual (Merchant, 2011;MacKerron and Mourato, 2013).…”

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Blue space geographies: Enabling health in place

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a b s t r a c tDrawing from research on therapeutic landscapes and relationships between environment, health and wellbeing, we propose the idea of 'healthy blue space' as an important new development Complementing research on healthy green space, blue space is defined as; 'health-enabling places and spaces, where water is at the centre of a range of environments with identifiable potential for the promotion of human wellbeing'. Using theoretical ideas from emotional and relational geographies and critical understandings of salutogenesis, the value of blue space to health and wellbeing is recognised and evaluated. Six individual papers from five different countries consider how health can be enabled in mixed blue space settings. Four sub-themes; embodiment, inter-subjectivity, activity and meaning, document multiple experiences within a range of healthy blue spaces. Finally, we suggest a considerable research agenda -theoretical, methodological and applied -for future work within different forms of blue space. All are suggested as having public health policy relevance in social and public space.

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Walking together: The embodied and mobile production of a therapeutic landscape

Cited by 138 publications

References 29 publications

Public Open Space Development for Elderly People by Using the DANP-V Model to Establish Continuous Improvement Strategies towards a Sustainable and Healthy Aging Society

Public Open Space Development for Elderly People by Using the DANP-V Model to Establish Continuous Improvement Strategies towards a Sustainable and Healthy Aging Society

Seeking everyday wellbeing: The coast as a therapeutic landscape

Blue space geographies: Enabling health in place

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