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Healing Spaces: Designing Physical Environments to Optimize Health, Wellbeing, and Performance

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  • Altaf Engineer

    (School of Architecture, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
    UArizona Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85711, USA)

  • Aletheia Ida

    (School of Architecture, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
    UArizona Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85711, USA)

  • Esther M. Sternberg

    (UArizona Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85711, USA
    Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85711, USA)

Abstract

This Special Issue on Healing Spaces includes eight articles consisting of studies at the interface between design and health. The articles address some of the latest findings using state-of-the-art technologies, important outcomes for human health and wellbeing, and suggest exciting directions for the future of this research field.

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  • Altaf Engineer & Aletheia Ida & Esther M. Sternberg, 2020. "Healing Spaces: Designing Physical Environments to Optimize Health, Wellbeing, and Performance," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(4), pages 1-4, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:4:p:1155-:d:319830
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