The relationship between man and the natural environment during the last century has been increasingly degrading, this is evident in diffused individual and social malaise. We are now beginning to perceive how far human societies have become from natural contest. This physical and cultural disengagement has negative consequences on well-being, especially in urban populations. Anti-social behaviours, aggression, other pathologies are caused by unknown factors, indicating the existence of a “cryptically” different illness which seems invisible to superficial and transitory analysis. Part of that illness is due to life styles, more or less consciously adopted, excluding nature from everyday experience. The aim of the GLAS’ research is outlining design strategies to add can give new potential values to people, evading from stress, attention-disorders and other physical or mental problems.

Adriana Ghersi, Patrizia Burlando, Francesca Mazzino