Landscape Empowerment: A Participatory Design Approach to Create Restorative Environments for Assembly Line Workers in the Foxconn Factory

by Bin Jiang

Book Overview

​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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811520690
• ISBN13: 9789811520693
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 11.0"