Green4brain: Adolescents investigate the restorative effects of school areas (indoor/outdoor) and urban green spaces
Abstract
Everyday school life challenges pupils’ well-being as well as their cognitive skills. They are less able to concentrate, cannot sufficiently absorb the subject matters and are not balanced. The need to restore during school lessons is crucial, but what are the places in the school and living environments, where pupils can restore cognitive performance? The project Green4brain investigates and compares restorative effects of different places in the school and living environments of adolescents. Three Viennese schools work together with researchers from recreation planning, environmental health and environmental engineering. The project starts with the recording of everyday life of the involved pupils: In a first step, they will survey their own recreational places within the school and the living environment during different seasons with video clips. Afterwards, they analyse and reflect their own recreation behaviour and experiences with these places using concept maps. In a second step, the restorative effects of several places on the wellbeing and the concentrativeness of pupils are measured in a standardised way. Different non-invasive psychological, physical and cognitive methods will be used. The measurements are planned in the school environment and in a public green space in different seasons. A quantitative survey based on an image-based choice model will analyse how public green spaces should be designed to attract people also in the vegetation-free season. Finally, adolescents reflect and synthesise the results of different work packages and develop strategies to improve the restorative quality of their school environment in a future lab. The project is founded by the Sparkling Science programme.
keywords Restorative effects Adolescents School areas (indoor/outdoor) and green spaces Measurement of psycho-physiological health related effects Discrete choice model Public Health Health competence
Publikationen
Green4brain. Jugendliche untersuchen die restorative Wirkung von Schul(frei)räumen im Vergleich zu Grünräumen
Autoren: Eder, R; Allex, B; Arnberger, A; Schlagbauer, T; Hutter, HP, Lemmerer, K; Damm, L; Wallner, P; Tappler, P; Schmöger, C Jahr: 2018
Journal articles
Green4Brain. Jugendliche untersuchen die restorative Wirkung von Schul(frei)räumen im Vergleich zu Grünräumen - Zwischenbericht
Autoren: Eder, R.; Arnberger, A.; Allex, B.; Schlagbauer, T., Hutter, H-P.; Weitensfelder, L.; Lemmerer, K.; Sanavi, S.; Wallner, P., Damm, L.; Tappler, P.; Schmöger, C. Jahr: 2018
Forschungsbericht (extern. Auftraggeber)
Green for brain? Jugendliche erforschen die Erholungswirkung von Schul(frei)räumen
Autoren: Eder, R; Allex, B; Schlagbauer, T; Hutter, H-P; Weitensfelder, L; Lemmerer, K; Wallner, P; Tappler, P; Schmöger, C; Arnberger, A Jahr: 2018
Journal articles
Inside or outside? Where to take a break to reload batteries during a stressful school day?
Autoren: Eder, R., Allex, B., Schlagbauer, T., Hutter,H.-P., Weitensfelder, L., Lemmerer, K., Shahrakisanavi, S., Wallner, P., Schmöger, C., Tappler, P., Arnberger, A. Jahr: 2019
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Project staff
Brigitte Allex
Dipl.-Ing. Brigitte Allex
Project Leader
01.09.2017 - 25.09.2017
Project Staff
01.09.2017 - 31.12.2019
Arne Arnberger
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arne Arnberger
arne.arnberger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85311
Project Leader
26.09.2017 - 31.12.2019
Sub Projectleader
01.09.2017 - 25.09.2017
Renate Eder
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Renate Eder
renate.eder@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85326
Sub Projectleader
01.09.2017 - 31.12.2019
BOKU partners
External partners
IBO Innenraumanalytik OG
DI Peter Tappler
partner
Med Uni Vienna
Dr. Hans-Peter Hutter
partner