Placemaking as Health Generating System

We need to find a new path forward, whereby placemaking is viewed as a health generating system; a catalyst for our psychological, physiological and biological health. Viewing placemaking role in health creation, through an asset based lens - encouraging good things to happen - versus a deficit based lens - focused primarily on limiting bad events from occurring. Placemaking as physical, mental and emotional fitness. Through researching and producing my book Constructing Health: How the Built Environment Enhances our Mind’s Health, it was astonishing to see the tremendous number of fields of study, depth of scholarly research, and overwhelming evidence of how intentionally designed environments, can be a nutrients for physical, societal, ecological, and importantly mind health - though a sense of coherence - reinforced by comprehensibility, manageability, and of note - meaningfulness. More at www.causehealth.org Image: French artist Charles Pétillon’s installation titled “Heart Beat” installation at Covent Garden, London, England #causehealth #constructinghealth #enrichedenvironments #salutogenesis #architecture #architecturedesign #wellbeing #wellness #mind #health #design #building #designinspiration #farrowpartners #mentalhealth #building #canadianarchitecture