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Socially Inclusive Design in Denmark: The Maturing Landscape
Author(s) -
Peters Terri
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1727
Subject(s) - architecture , stigma (botany) , inclusion (mineral) , landscape architecture , landscape design , population , sociology , aesthetics , environmental ethics , political science , gender studies , engineering , art , medicine , visual arts , civil engineering , demography , psychiatry , philosophy
With a tradition of social inclusion and innovative contemporary design, Denmark leads the way internationally in its architectural provision for an older population. Architect, author and researcher Terri Peters highlights some pioneering housing schemes in Denmark that use architecture to reduce the stigma of old age in the creation of environments that are overtly ‘homey’ or domestic – breaking away from the sanitised environment of the ‘nursing home’ – and that employ nature and landscape to positive effect, as a means of promoting healing and health.