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Architecture Theraputics Aesthetics
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
Friday February 26, 2010 to Sunday February 28, 2010
Technologically Enhanced Environments and the Human Sensorium
The last quarter century has witnessed a massive transformation in our conception of the human largely facilitated by information technology and a digitally augmented sensorium. This transformation has profound implications for both the medical and the aesthetic disciplines yielding affinities that are relevant to healthcare design.
This conference will begin the public discourse that will be continued in our new Health Design graduate studies program currently in the planning stages. It begins a dialogue between medicine and aesthetics examining the capacity for design to align evidence with intuition, quantitative analysis with qualitative judgment, science with art. The conference interrogates current ideas and practices defining the role of design in the promotion of health while seeking to foster an appreciation of how the forms of affective and cognitive experience associated with environmental aesthetics may clarify and amplify the goals that motivate therapeutic practices and institutions.
Treating architecture as the locus for the convergence of medical and aesthetics agendas, the conference aims to promote this dialogue at three scales and according to three thematic rubrics. The first rubric, Corporealities, will focus on the body; the second rubric, Atmospherics, will focus on the built environment; the third rubric, Networks, will focus on the physical and informational infrastructures that traverse and situate the built environment.
The two-day conference is followed by workshops that bring ideas from all three rubrics to bear directly on practical considerations: "Responsive Wards: How Ambient Technologies Enhance Patient Experience and Recovery; "Dismantling the Mega-Hospital; How e-Medicine Reshapes the Spaces of Healthcare; "From Sink to Precinct; Healthcare in the Age of Pandemics".
This conference is a collaboration between the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design (Daniels), the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion (OAHPP), and the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD).
SPEAKERS
Guest speakers include:
Keynote Address*
Philippe Rahm, Architect
Session 1: Corporealities
Introduction: Andy Payne, Daniels Faculty
Sissel Tolaas, Artist
David Allison, Clemson University
Anjum Chagpar, University Health Network
Discussants: Julian Goss and Jim Drobnick, OCAD
Session 2: Atmospherics
Introduction: Rodolphe el-Khoury, Daniels Faculty
Annmarie Adams, McGill University
Roger Ulrich, Texas A&M University
Michelle Addington, Yale University
Discussants: Patricia McKeever, Bloorview Research Institute, and Shelley Hornstein, The City Institute at York University (CITY)
Session 3: Networks
Introduction: Rodolphe el-Khoury, Daniels Faculty
David Gissen, California College of the Arts
Hilary Sample, Yale University
Michael Gardam, OAHPP
Discussants: Carol Moukheiber and Mason White, Daniels Faculty
*The Keynote Address is open to the public.
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
230 College Street
Toronto, Ontario
416-978-3089
www.uofttix.ca/view.php?id=585
nene.brode@daniels.utoronto.ca