Urban Gardening and Wellbeing in Pandemic Era: Preliminary Results from a Socio-Environmental Factors Approach

The nature and impacts of living in urban settings are gaining their saliences developed developing countries alike, particularly during the crisis COVID-19 pandemic. During crisis, wellbeing society became intertwined with a so-called “new lifestyle”, which involved quarantine working home environment. Facing such challenges, gardening is deemed as an alternative intervention to enhance residents’ environmental sustainability areas, including Indonesian cities. A preliminary study was conducted monitor practitioners, well investigate motivation any association between pandemic situation by analysing data from metropolitan areas. utilized instruments “satisfaction life scale (SWLS)” “scale positive negative experience (SPANE)” subjective 67 respondents. Amongst others, we identified that practitioners tend be moods have better overall wellbeing; 52.24% respondents were highly satisfied life. Furthermore, observed variety motivations start gardening, hobby utilization free space prominent reasons, followed other benefit aesthetic. Integrating benefits implications for individual’s can reflected sustainable development policies