Welfare Institutions: Health, Wellbeing and Environments

Datum
01. Dezem­ber – 03. Dezem­ber 2021 

At this con­fer­ence we want to high­light wel­fare insti­tu­tions, such as hos­pi­tals and schools, and the chal­lenges they face in rela­tion to health, well­be­ing and envi­ron­ment. Dif­fer­ent wel­fare insti­tu­tions play an impor­tant role in every­day life and are relat­ed to shared soci­etal expec­ta­tions such as being healthy, safe and hav­ing secure envi­ron­ments that pro­mote both phys­i­cal and men­tal wellbeing.

Chalmers Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy, Swe­den – con­fer­ence call.

Wel­fare Insti­tu­tions: Health, Well­be­ing and Environments 

A focus on health and well­be­ing: hos­pi­tals, schools, care homes, communities.

Organ­sied by Chalmers Uni­ver­si­ty of Technology

Vir­tu­al (Swe­den)

01–03 Decem­ber, 2021

Abstracts: 25 June, 2021 (Round One)

Con­fer­ence Call:

At this con­fer­ence we want to high­light wel­fare insti­tu­tions, such as hos­pi­tals and schools, and the chal­lenges they face in rela­tion to health, well­be­ing and envi­ron­ment. Dif­fer­ent wel­fare insti­tu­tions play an impor­tant role in every­day life and are relat­ed to shared soci­etal expec­ta­tions such as being healthy, safe and hav­ing secure envi­ron­ments that pro­mote both phys­i­cal and men­tal wellbeing.

How­ev­er, these wel­fare insti­tu­tions are also fac­ing a num­ber of chal­lenges, such as how to take care of an age­ing pop­u­la­tion, how to han­dle com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­ease and how to cre­ate ade­quate learn­ing envi­ron­ments against a back­drop of shrink­ing pub­lic resources. More recent­ly, in the times of the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, they are also forced to deal the chal­lenges of new spa­tial rules that reset the norms for per­son­al inter­ac­tion. In addi­tion, in the com­ing years wel­fare insti­tu­tions will under­go sig­nif­i­cant change in rela­tion to the imple­men­ta­tion of e‑health ini­tia­tives and sim­i­lar dig­i­tal­iza­tion projects that will change how and where wel­fare is pro­vid­ed. It will not only influ­ence the design and use of tra­di­tion­al health­care facil­i­ties and edu­ca­tion­al set­tings, but also pub­lic places and res­i­den­tial envi­ron­ments of var­i­ous kinds.

When we address these ques­tions, we are oblig­ed to con­sid­er issues like the envi­ron­men­tal impact on heal­ing and restora­tion, or the impact of the spaces we inhab­it on issues such vio­lence, crime and anti-social behav­iour. By address­ing this broad spec­tra of ques­tions then, this call asks us to re-think design and man­age­ment strate­gies for wel­fare insti­tu­tions, for both today and tomor­row, from an intra and trans­dis­ci­pli­nary stance.

-

Part of the Envi­ron­ments by Design glob­al event – organ­ised in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Northum­bria Uni­ver­si­ty and the Ital­ian Soci­ety for the Soci­ol­o­gy of Health, with AMPS and Ver­non Press.

FULL CALL HERE:

https://architecturemps.com/chalmers/