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Design Museum Boston – The Architecture of Health

January 25, 2019 / Dochitect / Evidence-Based Design, The Physician-Architect Model

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Event: Design Museum Boston
Title: The Architecture of Health
Date: January 25, 2019

Design Museum Mornings with Diana Anderson, MD, M.Arch, healthcare architect, and a board-certified internist.

Can architecture impact health? Increasingly, clinicians are asking not only for the architect’s perspective, but to develop a skill-set and knowledge-base that will allow them to help shape the future of health. Architects aim to engage clinical professionals in research, education, and practice. For some patients, design can succeed where drugs may fail. For clinicians, the built environment can support and improve efficient care delivery. We all have a shared goal in seeking to enhance health outcomes through innovations in the design of healthcare spaces.

Dochitect speaks at the Design Museum Boston Morning event about The Architecture of Health!

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Therapeutic Sanatorium Design: Where Hospital Architecture & Medical Practice Converge

February 25, 2017 / Dochitect / Evidence-Based Design, The Physician-Architect Model

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Organization: Texas A&M Health Science Center
Event: 2nd International History of Medicine Symposium
Location:
Bryan, Texas
Date:
February 25, 2017

Dochitect delivers the Keynote Address at the 2nd International Symposium on the History of Medicine and Related Disciplines, presenting the historical convergence between Medicine and Architecture.

As Keynote Speaker, Dochitect was introduced by Kirk Hamilton, Fellow & Associate Director of the Center for Health Systems & Design and Professor of Architecture at Texas A&M University.

ABSTRACT

Historical overview
The notion of our health is no longer identified primarily by the absence of illness, but instead has expanded to include a general state of well-being. In medicine, as in architecture, it seems that our ambition for total well-being has become fragmented, due in part to the subspecialisation of medical science, in addition to the rise of complex chronic illness and the need for multiple buildings types for delivering care- from our homes to traditional hospital buildings and now freestanding ambulatory centers.

The sanatorium as therapeutic architecture
The histories of hospital architecture and medical practices have rarely converged. The design of the tuberculosis sanatorium during the early 20th century illustrates this infrequent intersection; the healthy building emphasizing contact with nature, developed to prevent the spread of contagions by isolating patients and preparing them for a return to normal life. As it preceded the era of antibiotic therapy, the sanatorium model did not necessarily offer any true effective treatment. With the advent of pharmaceutical treatments and critical care technology, hospital design moved into a more industrial period of machine-like centers designed to provide all levels of life-sustaining care. While medical science can often disguise mortality with technology, we are now revisiting the sanatorium model to de-medicalize architecture.

The future of healthy design
How do clinicians and architects find a balance between illness, health, and design? To consider therapeutic design as a possible form of treatment requires participation of both the patient and the caregiver. It may be time to shift our thinking and develop healthcare architecture focused on prevention, rehabilitation, and independent living by taking lessons from the sanatorium model. A future in which design of collective spaces can promote this convergence of care alongside cure should be our goal.

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Healthcare Design from a Universal Design Approach

May 5, 2016 / Dochitect / Evidence-Based Design

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Organization: The Centre for Excellence in Universal Design (CEUD)
Event: Presentation on Universal Design in Healthcare
Location:
Dublin, Ireland
Date:
May 5, 2016

Universal Design is the design and composition of an environment so that it can be accessed, understood and used to the greatest extent possible by all people regardless of their age, size, ability or disability.

During this presentation, Dochitect discusses the application of a Universal Design approach in healthcare environments. The presentation looked at how hospitals and healthcare buildings can be designed from a Universal Design approach in order to:

DSCN1761– Improve care delivery and patient experience
– Prevent clinician burnout
– Integrate caregivers and family needs
– Foster interdisciplinary collaboration for improved care
– Address the changing practice of healthcare
– Apply design-thinking to medicine for enhanced efficiency

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Designing for the Clinician

June 19, 2014 / Dochitect / Design for Clinical Staff

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Presentation Title: Designing for the Clinician
Event: Educational evening hosted by Steelcase Health & Waldners Business and Healthcare Environments
Presentation Date: June 19, 2014
Event Location: New York, NY

Dr. Anderson delivers a keynote address to the healthcare architectural community on designing for the clinician.

Topics of discussion include: steelcase talk

  • Bridging the gap between clinical practice and design
  • Design trends based on clinical practice anecdotes
  • Innovative design as influencer of change
  • Designing for the physical encounter within various clinical practices

 

Dr Diana Anderson Invitation

 

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