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Research on Indigenous Children's Medical Space Design with the Art Therapy— Case Study of Shanghai Children’s Medical Center

Ziying Wang1
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1 Universiti Utara Malaysia(UUM)Sintok 06010, Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia
LNE 2025 , 3(5), 280–287; https://doi.org/10.18063/LNE.202505048
© 2025 by the Author. Licensee Whioce Publishing, USA. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

This essay provides reviews of the development, effect and application practices of the space therapy, from the perspective of design psychology, to sum up current design paradigms of children’ medical spaces with non-verbal psychotherapy and rehabilitation landscape theories. This research will use relevant practical examples of Shanghai Children’s Medical Center (China) as cases, combing with related questionnaires for design-element detections, based on the contextual process considering geo-cultural element and current interdisciplinary theorical basis. In order to the innovation of healing space design in China to suit with a develop of global practices, as well as specific issues for nation context.

Keywords
Art Therapy
Medical Space
Environmental Design
Therapeutic Land space
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