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Design & Health Canada 2010 Programme

Day 1 Programme

08.00 Registration and coffee





08.50 Opening remarks from the chair,

Prof Richard M Sommer, Dean of Architecture, University of Toronto



Session 1: Health Policy and Infrastructure Development in Canada

09.00 Health Capital Investment in Ontario
David Clarke, director, Health Capital Investment Branch, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Canada

09.30 Health Capital Investment in Design
Cliff Harvey, chief architect, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Canada

10.00 The Hospital of the Future: A Clinician's Perspective
Dr Howard Abrams MD, Canada

10.30 Questions and Answers

10.45 Coffee

Session 2: Health Perspectives, Theories and Application
11.15 Salutogenic Perspectives on Health and Wellbeing
Prof Alan Dilani, International Academy for Design & Health, Sweden

11.45 Design as a Tool for Social Innovation and Change
Dr Ray Pentecost, president, American Institute of Architects. Academy of Architecture for Health, USA

12.15 The Four Roots of Innovative Healthcare Design
Kimmo Lintula, Architect, SAFA. Finland

12.45 Questions and Answers

13.00 Lunch and exhibition




Opening remarks from the Chair,

Prof Jacqueline Vischer PhD, Canada




Session 3: Health Planning and Models of Care


14.00 The Economic Case for Optimal Physical Environments

Blair Sadler, USA


14.30 Contemporary Healthcare Planning: Commonalities and Counterpoints
Cyndi McCullough RN, MSN, director of clinical planning, HDR Architecture, USA

15.00 The Taming of the Queue: New Models of Care in the Emergency Department
Click here for Presentation 1 and Presentation 2

Paul Whittlestone and Tessa Walton, Tribal Group, UK

15.30 Questions and Answers

15.45 Coffee break

Session 4: Design and Architecture for Health
16.15 Found in Translation: Interpreting Care Models by Design
Tarek El-Khatib and Amos Caspi, Zeidler Partnership Architects, Canada

16.45 Building Mission Vision and Values: Three Hospital Organisations Transformed by Design Thinking
Tye Farrow, senior partner, Farrow Partnership Architects, Canada

17.15 Feminine Mystique in Architecture?
Susan Black, Perkins Eastman Black, Canada

17.45 Questions and Answers

18.00 Day Summary and Event Close



Day 2 Programme





Chair: Derek Parker, Anhen + Allen, USA





Session 5 Sustainability and Healthy Communities


09.00 Sustainable Urbanism: Aspects of a Healthy City
David Sisam, Montgomery Sisam, Canada

09.30 Urban Design: Facilitating Health and Fitness
Mark Johnson FASLA, founding principal, Civitas Inc

10.00 Culture & Meaning as Treatment for Alzheimer's: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Dr John Zeisel, founder and president, Hearthstone Alzheimer Care, USA

10.30 Questions and Answers

10.45 Coffee break

Session 6 Patient Environments and the Arts

11.15 Patient Room Mock-Ups: 3-D Vision, 4-D Information, 5-D Experience
Annie Coull, principal, Anshen + Allen, USA

11:45 Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Designing for Patient Dignity
Colum Lowe, founder, Being, UK

12.15 Transforming the Healthcare Experience: Building Community Partnerships in the Arts
Annette Ridenour, president, Aesthetics Inc, USA

12.45 Questions and Answers

13.00 Lunch

Chair: Luigi Ferrara MRAIC, Hon. ACID O, ICSID,
director, School of Design and the Institute without Boundaries, George Brown College, Canada


Session 7 Emerging Trends in Healthcare Design

14:00 Contemporary Healthcare Design: Commonalities and Counterpoints
Jason Emery-Groen, HDR Architecture, Canada

14.30 New Perspectives in Healthcare Facility Design
Alejandro Lillo, GRAFT, USA

15.00 Trends in Environments for Psychiatric Care
Chris Shaw, director, MAAP, UK

15.30 Questions and Answers

15.45 Coffee and Exhibition

Session 8: Defining Evidence-based Design and its Relationship to Research

16.00 What is "Evidence" and How Do We Know?
Prof Jacqueline Vischer PhD, Canada

16.30 Experience-based Design: At the Crossroads of Humanity and Architecture
John Steven OAA, MRAIC, ACHA, AIA (assoc), Stantec, Canada

17.00 Questions and Answers

17.45 Close of Day

19.00 Gala Dinner and International Academy Awards

17.00 Day Summary


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