Research on Indigenous Children's Medical Space Design with the Art Therapy— Case Study of Shanghai Children’s Medical Center

This essay provides reviews of the development, effect and application practices of the space therapy, from the perspective of design psychology, to sum up current design paradigms of children’ medical spaces with non-verbal psychotherapy and rehabilitation landscape theories. This research will use relevant practical examples of Shanghai Children’s Medical Center (China) as cases, combing with related questionnaires for design-element detections, based on the contextual process considering geo-cultural element and current interdisciplinary theorical basis. In order to the innovation of healing space design in China to suit with a develop of global practices, as well as specific issues for nation context.