Community Dinner with Amy Wagenfeld and Daniel Winterbottom

Want to spend an evening in community with an interdisciplinary group of students, professionals, and retirees who are passionate about advancing health equity and access to nature? Want to enjoy a shared meal while learning about novel programs, policies, and research designed to get people outdoors and fully realizing the benefits of what nature has to offer? Then join us for a Nature and Health Community Dinner.

Our September 22 dinner features a talk from Amy Wagenfeld, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA and Daniel Winterbottom, RLA, FASLA. Amy and Daniel will talk about their latest book, Therapeutic Gardens: Design for Healing Spaces second edition.

Nature and Health Community Dinners include:

• A plant-based dinner
• Drinks
• Community updates
• Networking
• Short talks from a wide variety of professionals

About Amy Wagenfeld, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA

Amy is an occupational therapist, therapeutic design consultant, educator, researcher, author, and affiliate associate professor in University of Washington’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Principal of Amy Wagenfeld | Design. She is a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association, holds specialty certification in environmental modifications through the AOTA, and certification in Healthcare Garden Design through the Chicago Botanical Garden.

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About Daniel Winterbottom, RLA, FASLA

Daniel is a landscape architect with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tufts University and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington. His firm, Winterbottom Design Inc., focuses their practice on healing/restorative gardens. His research interests include the landscape as a cultural expression, ecological urban design and the role of restorative/healing landscapes in the built environment. He has been published widely in Northwest Public Health, Places, the New York Times, Seattle Times, Seattle P.I., Landscape Architecture Magazine. He has authored “Wood in the Landscape” and has contributed to several books on sustainable design, community gardens, therapeutic landscapes and community service learning.

He has developed several programs including the participatory design design/build program in 1995 where with his students he works with communities to design and build projects that address the social and ecological concerns of the community. He has completed projects in Seattle, New York City, Bedford Hills New York, Mexico, Guatemala, Bosnia/Herzegovina and Croatia. In 2006 he developed the Healing Garden Certificate program at the University of Washington.

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Dinner Sponsor

We are incredibly grateful to the REI Cooperative Action Fund for their unwavering support of Nature and Health community dinners and their tireless efforts to help build an enduring nature and health movement. The REI Fund brings together the collective strength of the outdoor community to support organizations that advance inclusivity, access and belonging outside. The REI Fund announces new investments each year in the spring and the fall to provide unrestricted funding to nonprofit partners across three specific areas: connecting people outside, creating space outside, and centering health outside.