003.10 SITE VISIT
Part of the work of designing and discovering restorative environments is seeing the environments we spend a lot of time in with new eyes. This activity invites you to spend time in a restorative environment. It helps you to understand what you find restorative about it. It also may help you recognize tensions in that environment—elements that may compromise your restoration.
EXPLORE
SITE VISIT
Preparation
This is a solo or group activity.
You will need at least 20 minutes.
Bring a camera along.
(If you use your phone as your camera, consider putting it in "do not disturb" mode.)
Instructions
Go someplace you tend to go to come back to yourself, fill up, rest, or restore.
Spend about 20 minutes there. Experience the place and consider the questions to the right or on the template to the left.
Take a photo.
Extend
Try this with a different place you like to go.
Try this at home or on your commute.
Make it a group experience. Find 1-3 other folks and take each other to your favorite secret spots. Share your answers to the questions below with each other while you're there.
Consider
What do you notice in this place?
What is natural? What is built?
What do you usually do here? What do others do?
What enables you to come here? What prevents?
How is technology used here, if at all?
