Findings, methods and sources
Adjacent evidenceObservational / experimentalReported benefit
Finding. A field study compares short-term responses to art and greenery in street installations, reporting favourable changes in wellbeing measures.
Limitation. Public-space evidence rather than healthcare evidence. Similar observed results do not establish statistical equivalence.
Methods and verification
Verification level: Abstract checked
Structured summary
- Population
- Passers-by in urban streets
- Sample
- Not extracted from the abstract
- Intervention
- Street installation of laminated art prints
- Comparator
- Street installation of green elements
- Outcome measures
- Subjective and physiological well-being
- Timing
- Before and after interaction with the installation
- Result
- Reduced anxiety, stress and negative mood after the art installation, as after the green installation
- Uncertainty
- Short-term field experiment outside healthcare
- Design
- Field experiment with within-subject measures, two Vienna streets
- Sample / scope
- See source for sample and design
- Setting
- Urban street, not healthcare
- Art form
- Public art
Citation checked against Crossref and abstract against the publisher or OpenAlex record, 29 September 2026
Last full editorial audit: 2026-09-09 · Verification policy
Publications and overlap
No confirmed shared-publication match is recorded for this entry in Edition 4.11. Source-by-source and participant-level reconciliation is incomplete; this does not establish an independent study.