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Landscape Empowerment [electronic resource] : A Participatory Design Approach to Create Restorative Environments for Assembly Line Workers in the Foxconn Factory / edited by Bin Jiang.

Contributor(s): Jiang, Bin [editor.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2021Edition: 1st ed. 2021.Description: XXI, 261 p. 474 illus., 211 illus. in color. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789811520679.Subject(s): Buildings—Design and construction | Industrial sociology | Environmental health | Employee health promotion | Building Construction and Design | Sociology of Work | Environmental Health | Employee Health and WellbeingAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 690 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Project Introduction -- Background Research -- Design Outcome -- In-Between space of factory and community -- Design Outcome -- Riverfront urban space -- Design Outcome --The Qinghu community -- Acknowledgement.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: This book discusses essential strategies and approaches to creating mentally restorative environments for highly stressed and depressed workers at sweatshop factories. Drawing on the Foxconn factory in Longhua, China and an adjacent urban village as a sample site for research and design practice, the book employs a bottom-up and participatory process. The content is divided into two main parts, the first of which investigates economic, cultural, human rights, and environmental issues related to the electronic industry and urban village, providing in-depth research on various aspects, especially the working and living conditions for Foxconn workers. Based on these findings, the second part highlights potential landscape designs to address a range of issues, locations, and scales. The book’s goals are to provide a set of original methods for research and design practice in a complex social and economic context, and to raise awareness regarding the health, dignity and freedom of millions of workers.
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Project Introduction -- Background Research -- Design Outcome -- In-Between space of factory and community -- Design Outcome -- Riverfront urban space -- Design Outcome --The Qinghu community -- Acknowledgement.

This book discusses essential strategies and approaches to creating mentally restorative environments for highly stressed and depressed workers at sweatshop factories. Drawing on the Foxconn factory in Longhua, China and an adjacent urban village as a sample site for research and design practice, the book employs a bottom-up and participatory process. The content is divided into two main parts, the first of which investigates economic, cultural, human rights, and environmental issues related to the electronic industry and urban village, providing in-depth research on various aspects, especially the working and living conditions for Foxconn workers. Based on these findings, the second part highlights potential landscape designs to address a range of issues, locations, and scales. The book’s goals are to provide a set of original methods for research and design practice in a complex social and economic context, and to raise awareness regarding the health, dignity and freedom of millions of workers.

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