Stine Bekke-Hansen

Title

PhD student, University of Copenhagen

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Dept

Department of Geosciences and Nature Management

Contact

sbh@ign.ku.dk

Subject area

Architecture

Stine Bekke-Hansen, PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, is a new member of the Bevica Foundation’s interdisciplinary research network. Stine has been invited to join the network for her academic research on the effects of nature on people with mobility disabilities. The aim is to explore how increased accessibility for individuals with mobility disabilities can lead to greater and improved health outcome.

Themes

Disability

Landscape

Nature

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Architecture

The deep quiet tranquility of the forest should be accessible to everyone

How to ensure the good nature experience when you are poorly walking or using a wheelchair and cannot take the same impassable road as friends and family? Perhaps an app with nature narratives can make the difference.

Health/Medicine

Nature experiences promoting mental health

A new PhD project investigates how nature can become more accessible to people with mobility impairments so that they have the same health effects as others. The project also looks at how activities in nature can increase the impact of nature experiences.

Disability

Landscape

Nature