WE Design engaged teenage residents of Phoenix House in a summer-long landscape design exercise using the courtyard as their study site. The result is a plan for a courtyard garden, complete with animal habitat, a pond, and a calm and peaceful place to hold group therapy meetings. Having participated in the design of the new courtyard, the students also constructed and continue to maintain these artful interventions.
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