Art and Design for Healing and Wellness in the Built Environment
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 31
Special Issue Editors
Interests: design education; new intelligent information technology; smart city informatization; building information model (BIM); ecological and green design; environmental design; sustainable design and construction; intelligent construction; information and interaction
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Interests: sustainable design; construction innovation; best practice and change management; circular economy; material resource efficiency; designing out waste and end-of-life waste recovery and optimization; low/zero energy building design; construction and retrofit; building information model (BIM)
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Interests: art therapy; interaction design; sustainable design; design for social innovation; environmental design; smart system; transportation facility; building information modelling (BIM); life cycle assessment (LCA)
Interests: passive solar design; daylighting in architecture; indoor environmental quality; built environment; low-energy buildings
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A smart city, from the perspective of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), emphasizes the importance of providing citizens with promising health and well-being. However, with the continuous impact of long COVID disease and the increase in city population, the health of citizens is facing new challenges. Among the various treatments promoting human health, therapy-enhanced art, i.e., art therapy (AT), has been used for decades. AT is a form of expressive therapy that employs creative art processes to enhance people's health, well-being, and quality of life. In addition, art, design, and the environment positively impact mental health, for which the impact of architectural and building design on health, particularly mental health, is very important. By viewing the relationship between art and design, measures to promote health can be summarized as therapeutic and healing design from the design perspective, which is to reduce stress and promote healing through aesthetic enhancement. However, studies are lacking to support the mutual promotion of Art and Design for Healing and Wellness in the Built Environment, hence the creation of this Special Issue.
Dr. Zhen Liu
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Osmani
Prof. Dr. Yi Liu
Prof. Dr. Jose-Manuel Almodovar-Melendo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- art therapy (AT)
- therapeutic and healing design
- mental health
- wellness
- well-being
- architecture and building
- built environment
- digital technology
- smart cities
- sustainable development
