To support the Healing Garden Institute (HGI), this project created an overarching strategic plan for healing garden programming and development and advanced a partnership with an organization serving a vulnerable population. We conducted interviews, visited local healing gardens, read peer-reviewed literature, and examined award-winning gardens to gather expertise about healing garden design elements, therapeutic horticulture activities, and design process to structure our strategic plan. The HGI Design and Partner Guidebook and supplementary design tools, meant for both internal and collaborative use, detail this plan. We researched and evaluated organizations in Worcester that already work with HGI's target population to find potential partners. After initially identifying four organizations, we prioritized Seven Hills as our first potential partner and created a presentation to further engage and inform the leaders of this organization about HGI’s plan to implement a healing garden.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Young, Ciara R.
• O'Neill, Mairead E.
• Adams, Matthew B.
• Davenport, Christopher R.

Subject

• Innovation
• Health
• Environment
• Learning
• Sustainability
• Community
• Culture
• Well-Being
• Project-Based Learning
• Inclusion

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121020-224631
• 4916

Palabra Clave

• gardening
• horticulture
• healing garden
• urban architecture
• Seven Hills
• vulnerable populations

Award

• President's IQP Award

Advisor

• Jiusto, Scott
• Somasse, Gbetonmasse B.

Year

• 2020

Center

• Cape Town, South Africa Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Healing Garden Institute

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 3 - Good Health and Well-being
• 10 - Reducing Inequality
• 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Date created

• 2020-12-10

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Última modificación

• 2023-01-17