Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: CIDIA ABEN ATHAR BENTES FERNANDES

LANDSCAPING IN THE PROMOTION OF WELL-BEING AT THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OESTE DO PARÁ

Restorative Environments; Therapeutic Garden; Well-being; University; Amazon.

Healing gardens have a real importance in the recovery and well-being of people. Thus, this research has as its main objective, to investigate the potential of the spaces designed in the Tapajós Unit of the Federal University of Western Pará, for the purpose of therapeutic gardens, in which it is intended to describe the process of planning and implantation of the spaces, evaluating whether the designed spaces meet the parameters for therapeutic purposes and identify the perceptions and demands of use that the academic community has in relation to the existing gardens at the university. The methodology will be based on a qualitative and quantitative approach, through a bibliographic review, and methods and techniques used in the post-occupation evaluation, through archival and field surveys, which are divided into physical and evaluative. Within this organization of methodology and research, it is believed that the theoretical instrument and the surveys will help to understand the importance of implementing therapeutic gardens within the university, in addition to giving rise to the expansion and deepening of the concepts and principles of gardens, their qualities and benefits for the academic community.