The architecture of the Danish healthcare system is undergoing major changes with the establishment of health centers, super hospitals, new nursing homes, hospices, cancer counseling and much more.

But what does it take to patients, staff and relatives thrive in architecture? How we use the knowledge available? How accommodated users in the many different types of architecture? And what are the success criteria for healing and soothing architecture?

PAVI, Centre of Rehabilitation and Palliative Care invites you to a seminar on palliative architecture. We want to give a broader picture of what health architecture can be, especially with a focus on architecture around people with life-threatening and possibly fatal disease. Palliative care focuses on relieving suffering and enhance the quality of life; it includes both (health) professional and voluntary action and the patient's physical settings and environments.

This seminar is open to dialogue across disciplines and institutions - and hopefully bring us all on with some of the many questions that arise in working with health architecture.

The project Architecture & Relief

The seminar is part of the "Architecture and Alleviation", supported by Realdania and anchored in PAVI, Centre of Rehabilitation and Palliative Care, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark. A project that focuses on context (including design principles) for relief to people affected by life-threatening illness.

Participants and Registration

The seminar is targeted at professionals involved with the creation and design of health architecture. The seminar is free and registration can be done by sending an email to [email protected] with your name, title and organization.

Read more about Architecture & Relief on www.pavi.dk

For questions related to the seminar contact

Kirstine Falk, tel. 21 75 08 14, mail [email protected]

The seminar is funded by Realdania.

Program

09:30:Arrival and Coffee 

09:45:Welcome v. Helle Timm, director and professor, PAVI, Centre of Rehabilitation and Palliative Care, University 

10:00:Why is the environment important? v. Connie Timmermann , PhD student, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University 

10:45:Coffee Break 

11:00:Design Principles for Soothing Architecture - A tool to create space for people in need of relief v. Kirstine Falk, project, PAVI 

11:45:Lunch with light refreshments

12:30:When architecture provides a helping hand v. Per Feldthaus, director of Signal Architects 

13:00:Livsrum - Healing architecture in new Cancer Advisory v. Tue Bailiff, partner at IMPACT 

13:30:Coffee break 

13:45:Future health architecture v. Wilhelm Berner-Nielsen, partner at Arkitema Architects

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