Design and Wellbeing with Alan Dilani
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Free Public Lecture: New Directions in Health Architecture
Alan Dilani will introduce the concept of ‘salutogenic’ thinking and illustrate how it can be applied to the design of new hospital facilities.
Contemporary health planning and practice has tended to focus on high technology diagnostics and on the treatment of disease. Recent research suggests that the quality of the buildings environment – its architecture and design – plays a critical role in promoting health and supporting wellbeing.
‘Salutogenic Architecture’ involved an interdisciplinary applcation of architecture, design, engineering, medicine, public health policy, culture and psychosocial factors. The approach is focussed on delivering hospital and healthcare environments which directly support improved health outcomes.
In Australia, the design and construction of major hospitals in most capital cities over the past five years has seen new focus on links between design and wellbeing. Projects such as the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and the forthcoming Queensland Children’s Hospital are two local examples of this growing global trend in health architecture.
Alan Dilani is Founder and Director General of the International Academy of Design and Health in Stockholm and Co-founder of the Journal, ‘World Health Design’.
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