Landscapes of Healing
Thomas M. Paine ASLA
ILASA 2016
my formative experiences
1958: Landscape construction at age 10
1982: First published guidelines for
public open space
1976: First Job outside the West: Landscape Architectural
Consultant Taiwan Tourism Bureau
1996: First fusion design, Willow Pond Knoll Mt Auburn Cemetery
Cambridge MA and Yo Yo Ma Music Garden Boston
Human Needs
American psychologist Abraham Maslow, 1943 (wiki)
Central Park magic
Leonard McCombe, Life Magazine, 1961
Sustainability x 3
Landscapes of Healing
Health
Healing Gardens matter
Prouty Garden at Boston Children’s Hospital is one of the best—Clare Cooper Marcus
Cbs boston files
“roof garden” is an oxymoron
rendering for proposed green roof to replace Prouty Garden at Boston Children’s Hospital
Beacon Hill Boston
Symbolic dome form on hilltop—first domed US capitol building (1794) on first public park
Boston Common (1630; 1809)
Reconciliation on Beacon Hill Boston
Left: Anne Hutchinson banished as a heretic in 1638, pardoned 1987;
Center: Black troops help win the war that abolishes slavery
Right: Mary Dyer, hanged as heretic in 1660, now celebrated as a martyr
Sculptors: Cyrus Dallin 1922
August Saint-Gaudens 1897
Sylvia Shaw Judson 1959
New England Holocaust Memorial Boston
6 towers symbolize
6 years of Final Solution
6 million Jews who died
6 branches of menorah
transnational healing space
Stanley Saitowitz, 1995. The architect describes the work as “towers of hope and aspiration”
Reconciliation in 2/28 Park Taiwan
A park at last apologizes for
10,000 to 30,000 deaths in
massacre by mainland Chinese of
Taiwanese people on 2-28-1947
(wiki)
“[W]e must be one, no matter which communal group we
belong; we must help each other with compassion and treat
each other with sincerity; we must dissolve hatred and
resentment, and bring about long lasting peace.”
Reconciliation on Green Island Taiwan
Human Rights Memorial Park
The wall
carries the
names of the
former
political
prisoners
Han Pao-teh, architect, 2001
Green Island Prison inmates
Blackened names of prisoners who
later became
Vice President Annette Lu
President Chen Shui-bian
https://everydaylifeinmaoschina.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/9203805.jpg?w=775&h=746
Mandela Capture Site Howick
Marco Cianfanelli, artist
50 steel columns, 9.5 m tall
celebrating across cultures
government of the people, by
the people, for the people
Abraham Lincoln, USA 1863
Three principles of the people:
Nationalism Democracy Welfare
Sun Yatsen, China, 1921
celebrating across cultures
三民主義
Sun Zhongshan and Abraham Lincoln
Coauthors of Three Principles of the People
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Celebrate Crosscultural Ideals
Fuse technology and nature
celebrating across cultures
commemorate a visit (Mandela to Boston 1990)
“Roxbury Love” by Richard Gomez and Thomas Burns (2014) in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
local heroes going global
Henry David Thoreau in US Mahatma Gandhi in SA
(Walden, Civil Disobedience)
Nelson Mandela in SA
Martin Luther King Jr in US
celebrate local heroes and big ideas
can public spaces inspire us?
celebrate local heroes and big Ideas
St Vincent de Paul mural Paris
Korean War Veterans Memorial DC
FDR Memorial Washington DC
can public space heal us?
www.wellnesswa.com,.au
yes it can!
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Thank you!