Tuesday November 8. 2011
Location: Danish Forestry College, Nødebo, Denmark
Seminar: Nature & Health – Children & Adolescents |
| 08.30 |
Registration, coffee/tea, bread |
|
09.00 -
09.20 |
Introduction to the program
By Poul Hjulmann Seidler, Danish Forestry College, Forest and Landscape, University of Copenhagen, and Eva Skytte, The Danish Forest Association |
| 09.30 |
How to communicate the message
Keynote 1: Author and journalist Richard Louv, US |
| 10.00 |
The Natural Learning Initiative – working with evidence based design
Keynotes II: Robin C. Moore, Professor, DiplArch, MCP, and Director, and
Nilda Cosco, Education specialist, PhD and Research Associate Professor at The Natural Learning Initiative, NC State University, U.S. |
| 10.30 |
Coffee |
| 10.50 |
Education outside the classroom - how to implement the praxis of ‘udeskole’
Keynote III: Assistant Professor Peter Bentsen, Danish Forestry College, Forest and Landscape, University of Copenhagen |
| 11.20
11.20
11.40 |
Paper presentations - Innovative research methods – children and teenagers’ relationship with place
Moderator: Robin C. Moore, Professor, DiplArch, MCP, and Director of The Natural Learning Initiative, NC State University, U.S.
Testing a new method to determine the window view from home and how it affects physical health
Christina Kelz (Cornell University and University of Vienna)
Teenager’s everyday ‘doings’ and the restorative niches that support them.
Jenny Roe, Vision, Environment and Wellbeing (VEW), School of Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS |
| 12.00 |
Lunch |
| 13.00
13.00
13.20 |
Paper presentations - Innovative research methods – children and teenagers’ relationship with place
Moderator: Robin C. Moore, Professor, DiplArch, MCP, and Director of The Natural Learning Initiative, NC State University, U.S.
Green areas motivating and impeding children’s independent mobility
Anna Broberg, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, Aalto University
Landforms and vegetation in playground design – the impact on play and behaviour
Anne Dahl Refshauge, Forest & Landscape, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen |
| 13.40
13.40
14.00
14.20 |
Paper presentations - Kindergartens and other educational settings
Moderator: Nilda Cosco, Education specialist, PhD and Research Associate Professor at The Natural Learning Initiative, NC State University, U.S.
Nature in educational settings for children: Effects on cognitive performance, stress reduction, and social interaction
Massimiliano Scopelliti, LUMSA University, Rome, Italy. Faculty of Education Sciences
Impact of space requirements in outdoor play areas. A study of public kindergartens in Oslo.
Askild H Nilsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning, Ås, Norway
Design of urban woodland in relation to children’s activity in forest kindergartens
Inger Lerstrup, Forest & Landscape, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen
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| 14.40 |
Coffee |
| 15.10
15.10
15.30 |
Paper presentations - Kindergartens and other educational settings
Moderator: Nilda Cosco, Education specialist, PhD and Research Associate Professor at The Natural Learning Initiative, NC State University, U.S.
Green education’ in poland – ecological farms promoting healthy life style and care for the environment among children
Monika Joanna Latkowska, Faculty of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Poland
Effects of green care farms on different client groups
Marjolein Elings, Plant Research International - Wageningen University and Research centre, Agrosystem Research |
| 15.50 |
Summing up
Moderator: Associate Professor Ulrika K. Stigsdotter, Forest and Landscape, University of Copenhagen |
| 16.30 |
End of the Nature & Health conference |