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fourth and fifth grader the opportunity to experience quality, natural world-based science at no cost to schools or families. Enhancing the outdoor environment has long been the practice of Landscape Architecture firm AHBE. Their practice explores the latest challenges and opportunities in implementing drought tolerant and native plants in high pedestrian areas such as school campuses. We will cover resiliency, maintenance and operations, and promoting healthy plant growth. We’ll look at the challenges faced by facility maintenance staff and administrators on the paradigm shift to native and drought-tolerant planting from historical ornamental planting. We will discuss how we can make our schools more resilient for future generations by instilling the value of water conservation throughout the school district; from the district office administrators to the maintenance gardener. We will present examples from our projects-- Playa Vista Elementary, Jordan High School and Mount San Antonio College-- on the impact of how design maintenance operations affect the long-term success on the planting design and how it can be improved through education and better communication.
Learning Objectives
OBJ #1 Participants will learn strategies to utilize nature in culturally relevant and responsive teaching pedagogues. OBJ #2 Using two Outdoor Education Center programs as case study examples, participants will identify inclusive education strategies to encourage positive attitudes toward science and to foster communication and collaboration skills.
OBJ #3 Participants will explore various methods to employ, and educate users on how to care for, native and drought resistant plants in their landscape designs.
OBJ #4 Participants will examine techniques of incorporating sustainability into school site design and the importance of instilling students with the value of water conservation.
Biophilic Design for Learning
Bill Browning, AIA, LEED AP, Founding Partner, Green Development Services at the Rocky Mountain Institute / Pacific / AIA CEU: 1.0 LU HSW / Primary Core Competencies: Educational Facility Pre-Design Planning / Secondary Core Competencies: Design of Educational Facilities
Biophilic Design for Learning. Connecting people to experiences of nature in the built environment can lower stress and improve cognitive function-- this is biophilic design. This presentation will include the science, elements and case studies. It will highlight the results of a recently completed study of the impacts of biophilic design on learning outcomes and biometric stress measurements among middle school students.
Learning Objectives
OBJ#1 Hear how to incorporate specific biophilic design strategies that will produce a positive impact on learning space user’s well-being and academic success.
OBJ#2 Learn to techniques to access the performance of the spaces you design with testing and biometric measurements.
OBJ#3 Become inspired to replicate the methodology, and create your own practitioner-academic research partnership and studies.
OBJ#4 Apply the principles of neuroscience theory of function, perception, and biophlic design and access a compressive list of precedent research.