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Green Space Welfare Lab
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The lab studies the effects that plants and greenery have on people's minds and bodies.
AboutAbout the lab
Contact with plants for a healthy mind and body.
The lab studies how plants and green spaces can contribute to people's mental and physical health and welfare.
Its main themes are the "therapeutic effects of plants," such as horticultural therapy, aromatherapy, and forest therapy, as well as greening of hospitals and elderly care facilities, and "community care through greenery," which uses parks and other green spaces to support residents' health.
The lab also draws on perspectives from medicine, pharmacy, and nursing, and verifies effects through experiments and surveys covering both body and mind.
Faculty members sometimes learn alongside students as they take on new topics that students bring in.
Key terms
- Horticultural therapy
- A method that supports mental and physical recovery and health promotion through horticultural activities such as growing plants and arranging flowers
- Palliative care
- Medical care and support that focuses on relieving the physical and emotional suffering of people with serious illness
- Evidence
- Scientific evidence, based on experiments and surveys, that supports the existence of an effect
ResearchResearch themes
The lab clarifies, based on evidence, how involvement with plants affects people's health and welfare. It aims to apply the results to parks, hospitals, and community life.
*Illustrative imageAnti-stress effects of plants
By measuring blood pressure before and after a five-minute rest among plants in a park, the lab showed that being with plants brings the body's condition closer to normal. It is also examining whether familiar neighborhood parks have effects similar to those of forests, and proposes "park bathing."
*Illustrative imageConnecting a community through pick-as-you-like flower beds
In a park in Chiba City, the lab proposed a project to grow herbs in raised flower beds from which people can pick as they walk. Residents have come to manage the beds themselves, which has contributed to the revival of the local community.
*Illustrative imageHorticultural therapy for caregivers
The lab has devised and is carrying out "indirect horticultural therapy" for people on the caregiving side, such as nurses in palliative care wards. It believes that when nurses can work in good spirits, patients benefit as well.
*Illustrative imageCommunity farms as a place to belong after retirement
The lab is exploring how community farms can serve as a casual gathering place and give retirees a reason to step outside.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorYutaka Iwasaki
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Healing Garden & Tree” Mbrickn / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Anti-stress effects of plants: “KKS 3637” Katarzyna Sim / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Connecting a community through pick-as-you-like flower beds: “Urban community gardens Aarhus City Park Pier Denmark 02” Ciara Ní Riain / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Horticultural therapy for caregivers: “Hospital Garden - geograph.org.uk - 7911800” Bill Nicholls / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Community farms as a place to belong after retirement: “Allotment garden, 2024, Germany, NRW” Dennis Lamczak / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Environmental Landscape Management Lab): “Castle De Haar ( ) - Landscape Garden designed by Hendrik Copijn” Txllxt TxllxT / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Akita Lab): “Green & Gold Community Garden ( )” Mack Male from Edmonton, AB, Canada / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Environmental Education Lab (Mishima)): “Environmental education - DPLA - dfaa0de b131ce97f19bba8e” Department of the Interior. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. National Conservation Training Center. 10/ / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Green Space Environment and Resources Lab (Kato)): “Tall open forest canopy from below Mt Glorious 01” John Robert McPherson / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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