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2013

Sensory garden

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Engaging Research And Practice In Creating For Outdoor Multi-Sensory Environments: Facing Future Challenges, Hazreena Hussein, Nik Malik Nik Zainal Abidin, Zaliha Omar Dec 2012

Engaging Research And Practice In Creating For Outdoor Multi-Sensory Environments: Facing Future Challenges, Hazreena Hussein, Nik Malik Nik Zainal Abidin, Zaliha Omar

Hazreena Hussein

This paper engages the users’ behaviour, their perceptions of use in sensory gardens and the reality faced by practitioners designing for these gardens, based on case-studies in the UK. Further investigation will be undertaken at Al-Bukhary International University in Malaysia once the completion of the country's first sensory garden. Interview outcomes showed practitioners concurred on the design aspects that encourage the use of the area while the school staff had no strong views on the aesthetic value. Observation outcomes showed pathway layout encourages behaviour, use and time spent in sensory areas. These outcomes are a significant argument in the conclusion.


Engaging Research And Practice In Creating For Outdoor Multi-Sensory Environments: Facing Future Challenges, Hazreena Hussein, Zaliha Omar Dec 2012

Engaging Research And Practice In Creating For Outdoor Multi-Sensory Environments: Facing Future Challenges, Hazreena Hussein, Zaliha Omar

Hazreena Hussein

This paper engages the users' behaviour, their perception of use in sensory gardens and the reality faced by practitioners designing for these gardens, based on case-studies in the UK. Further investigation will be undertaken at Al-Bukhary International University in Malaysia once the completion of the country's first sensory garden. Interview outcomes showed practitioners concurred on the design aspects that encourage the use of the area while the school staff had no strong views on the aesthetic value. Observation outcomes showed pathway layout encourages behaviour, use and time spent in sensory areas. These outcomes are a significant argument in the conclusion.


Patterns Of Seated Activity In Sensory Gardens Among Children Educated In Special Schools, Hazreena Hussein Dec 2012

Patterns Of Seated Activity In Sensory Gardens Among Children Educated In Special Schools, Hazreena Hussein

Hazreena Hussein

This study investigated the seated activity among special schooled children and their adult carers in two sensory gardens in the United Kingdom. Seated activity was established whether the seating was used as intended or whether users preferred to sit on other attributes during their learning session. The objectives of this study are to explore opportunities for users’ activity and their engagement with the attributes, whether activity is possible or if opportunities are not being actualised because of barriers. Observation and behaviour mapping methods were carried out alongside the affordance theory. The outcome suggests that the number of users, the number …