how green spaces can make you happy in a week
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UAL - LCC: Foundation Course in Art & Design (Photography Pathway) "Spaces" Brief.TRANSCRIPT
How Green Spaces Can
Make You Happy in a Week.
Duration
Source
Context
1 week minimum - has to be extended to an unlimited duration
for long-lasting effects
In recent years, the concept of happiness has been overly
neglected. People are confused with respect to how to reach this
particular state of mind.
This booklet aims to help these people through a particular method
involving green spaces (“space”).
Based on previously conducted researches, the writers of this
publication have managed to develop a 1-week long self-initiated
programme that has been proved to be very effective to achieve
the state of happiness.
The benefits of this structure is that the user can act in complete
independency. All she or he will need is some space.
Photographs have been included in this booklet in order to
facilitate the understanding of the various rules that have to be
respected.
Would You Be Happier Living in a Greener Urban Area?
A Fixed-Effects Analysis of Panel Data, Mathew P. White,
Ian Alcock, Benedict W. Wheeler and Michael H. Depledge,
Psychological Science, published online 23 April 2013, DOI:
10.1177/0956797612464659
ProgrammeGo to a space everyday for a week and spend at least 45 minutes
in there.
Follow at least 2 of the following rules during your time in the
space:
- Do not take the space for granted.
- Interact with the space.
- Observe the space.
- Share the moment within the space.
- Forget yourself in the space.
After a week, the space will have made you happy.
However, in order to make your surrounding as happy as
you are, it is strongly advised to share any trace of your
achievements on social media (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook)
using the following hashtag - #greenspacehappy
ExampleThe following pages show a photographically-documented report
of a successful case.
Do not take the space for granted.
Interact with the space.
Day 1
22 October 2014
London, UK Victoria Park
9:00 - 9:45
Share the moment within the space.
Forget yourself in the space.
Observe the space.
Day 2
23 October 2014
Paris, France Square René-Le Gall
10:00 - 10:45
Do not take the space for granted.
Interact with the space.
Share the moment within the space.
Forget yourself in the space.
Observe the space.
Day 3
24 October 2014
London, UK Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park
09:15 - 10:00
Do not take the space for granted.
Interact with the space.
Share the moment within the space.
Forget yourself in the space.
Observe the space.
Day 4
25 October 2014
Brighton, UK Pavilion Gardens and Steine Gardens
12:00 - 13:00
Do not take the space for granted.
Interact with the space.
Share the moment within the space.
Forget yourself in the space.
Observe the space.
Day 5
26 October 2014
London, UK Bethnal Green Gardens
12:45 - 13:30
Do not take the space for granted.
Interact with the space.
Share the moment within the space.
Forget yourself in the space.
Observe the space.
Day 6
27 October 2014
London, UK Archbishop’s Park
11:00 - 11:45
Do not take the space for granted.
Interact with the space.
Share the moment within the space.
Forget yourself in the space.
Observe the space.
Day 7
28 October 2014
London, UK Mabley Green
09:00 - 09:45
Do not take the space for granted.
Interact with the space.
Share the moment within the space.
Forget yourself in the space.
Observe the space.
Day 8
29 October 2014
London, UK Victoria Park
08:30 - 09:15
Do not take the space for granted.
Interact with the space.
Share the moment within the space.
Forget yourself in the space.
Observe the space.
TestimonialHowever dubious I was until the start of the programme, I quickly
got very addicted - in a positive manner - to spending time in
spaces.
Not only nature simply feels good, walking around green areas
gave me the opportunity to be more sensitive to what is happening
around me. I have also been more sensitive to small details that
surround me.
Even though one can think that the latter is not really linked to
me being happy, it actually is. Indeed, caring more about things
around me directly translates to caring more about myself. It is
after 2, 3 days that I realised small changes in my routine.
The most impactful effect is what concerns interactions with other
people. I was and still am amazed at how satisfying it can be to
have a short chat with someone or even better to play football or
exercise with people for a short amount of time.
For these reasons, as well as others that I will not be able to share
you here, I definitely recommend this programme. It’s short and
effective.
Photographic Evidence
Isn’t he happy?
duo-tone risograph (green & black)
work and design by Tsukasa Tanimoto for London
College of Communication (Foundation Course
in Art & Design, Photography Pathway)
email: [email protected]
thank you Hato Press, Yuri Downing, Yanael
Neuplanche and the people who let me play
football and basketball with them at the Bethnal
Green Gardens
November 2014, London
