Challenges of the sustainable redevelopment of historical psychiatric hospital landscapes
Authors:
- Anna Staniewska
Abstract
Historical psychiatric hospitals developed due to the transformations in society and culture that brought about the birth of psychiatry as a distinct medical specialisation in the 19th century. While part of them was closed with the era of deinstitutionalization in the mid-20th century, still many fulfil their therapeutic mission. Not only in Poland but in many other European countries historic psychiatric hospitals have been facing changes over the last century. Observed changes exceed their medical functions connected with the development in therapy but refer also to the heritage value of their landscape and architectural substance. The paper explores tensions between fulfilling the need for obvious development to serve the patients and efforts to maintain the integrity of those ensembles and protect them. Challenges connected to the redevelopment of historic psychiatric hospitals are linked also with urbanisation pressure on their surroundings and the need to mitigate climate change. Adaptation to climate change, increasingly perceptible in the last decade, also coincides with the need to follow the development of psychiatry and modern approach to treatment. Supporting advanced and precisely administered pharmacotherapy through a spectrum of supportive therapies (including those related to being in nature and garden surroundings) helps to preserve the genius loci of psychiatric hospitals from the beginning of the last century, with their park and garden surroundings. In terms of caring for historical gardens, whose plant material lives to old age, it is a chance to renew them and extend their life, adapting to more difficult climatic conditions, such as higher temperatures and lower rainfall. It is an opportunity to introduce changes that can simultaneously improve the comfort of treating patients and the working conditions of medical staff, but at the same time will become a continuation of the original intentions of the creators of the facilities, which was to create a balanced microworld supporting treatment. Operating as a part of one spatial complex, former insane asylums can undertake coherent actions in their areas and monitor the effects
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- CUT852faaf881db4072b473d5eb46af7728
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- Pages
- 461-476
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- fot.
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- Book
- Wąsowska-Pawlik Agata, Agata Wąsowska-Pawlik Purchla Jacek Jacek Purchla (eds.): Heritage and Development, 2023, Kraków, Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury, International Cultural Centre, ISBN 978-83-66419-49-0
- Keywords in English
- historical psychiatric hospital complexes, heritage building re-use, energy-saving, water-saving, adapting greenery to climate change, improving comfort of patients
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- eng (en) English
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- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT852faaf881db4072b473d5eb46af7728/
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urn:pkr-prod:CUT852faaf881db4072b473d5eb46af7728
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