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- Orru, Anna Maria, 1976, et al.
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AHA! festival 2015
- 2015
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The AHA festival investigates the borders between art and science in a three-day event at the Chalmers University of Technology hosted by the Department of Architecture. An international festival intended to provide enlightening experiences, staging surprises, new thoughts and displaced perspectives that lead to alternative modes of thinking about the space between art and science. We invite scientists (physicists, historians, mathematicians, medical students), artists (dancers, musicians, painters, poets, chefs) and not least architects, who reside in these borderlands and wish to share their vision and work. The key intention is to celebrate both art and science as key knowledge building devices.
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- Andersson, Morgan, 1965, et al.
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Att skapa hemkänsla på särskilt boende
- 2014
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In: Vårdmiljöns betydelse. - 9789144078113 ; , s. 123-144
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Vårdmiljöforskning genomgår en expansiv utveckling och är i fokus inom vård och arkitektur. Denna bok gör något så ovanligt som att omfatta bägge perspektiven i beaktandet av såväl de fysiska som psykosociala aspekterna av vårdmiljön. Den röda tråden genom boken är att se vårdmiljön som en central del i vårdandet och behandlingen, oavsett om det handlar om intensivvårdens högteknologiska miljöer, den psykiatriska slutenvården eller skapandet av hemkänsla inom äldrevårdens särskilda boenden.
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- Ibrahim, Muna
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Interior design elements influence on users’ wayfinding capacity in a Swedish hospital setting
- 2017
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In: ARCH17 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURE, RESEARCH, CARE AND HEALTH CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. - 9788793585003 ; , s. 91-104
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Wayfinding has been recognized as an important aspect that should be carefully considered, especially in the design of healthcare facilities. Previous studies have identified environmental elements that influence wayfinding, but there is still a lack of understanding on which properties of environmental elements and features that has the potential to aid wayfinding in hospital areas (Pati, Harvey, Willis & Pati, 2015). This pilot study examined the potential of interior design elements (including artwork) to support the participants’ ability to navigate in one of the reception halls at SUS Malmö hospital. In order to focus on the wordless wayfinding capacity, two subject categories were participating, 1) Arabic speaking visitors; 2) and Swedish speaking visitors. The participants, 4 females and 7 males, responded to a questionnaire in dialogue with the researcher. The data analysis showed that artworks, plants, skylight, furniture, wooden material on walls, and a tilted reception cube were the most eye-catching physical elements associated with wayfinding. Written signs were seen as helpful but sometimes useless due to the fact that they are written only in the Swedish language, whereas artworks was the common language between most of the participants and therefore interesting to further explore. Since the majority of the participants disliked the artworks in the reception hall, the influence of aesthetic preferences on wayfinding could possibly be a fruitful path of further investigation.
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- Dervishaj, Arlind
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Sunlight Autonomy for Sustainable Buildings and Cities : Maximizing daylight potential outdoors and indoors
- 2024
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Daylight, both outdoors and indoors, is essential for human well-being. However, daylight provision often faces challenges in various climates and locations, due to factors such as shortcomings in regulations, urban densification, deregulation or special exemptions, and the limitations of existing daylight and sunlight evaluation methods. To address these issues, we propose the Sunlight Autonomy, a new methodology and set of metrics, that aims to overcome the limitations of existing early-stage daylighting metrics and is valuable for urban planning and architectural design purposes.
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- Ibrahim, Muna
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Effects of Art and Design on Orientation in Healthcare Architecture : A study of wayfinding and wayshowing in a Swedish hospital setting
- 2019
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis investigates the role of interior design elements, especially artwork, in way-searchers’ wayfinding and orientation in hospital environments. The thesis considers the way-searcher’s background and the impact of cultural belonging, occupation, memories, aesthetic preferences, and language, and the influence that such factors might have on the perception of the hospital environment and its guiding elements. The aim is to increase the knowledge about the role of art objects and how they relate to design processes by studying how art and design appear to users at three different sites at the hospital SUS Malmö, and also to gain insight into decisions made about the design and the placement of public art in a health-care environment.The thesis consists of four studies developed to complement each other. They include three different experiencing perspectives: the visitor’s perspective, the designer’s perspective, and the observing researcher’s perspective. This mix of perspectives helps to obtain a broad understanding of the complex experience and effectiveness of wayshowing design in a health-care environment and of the intentions behind making, choosing, and installing art for and in hospitals. A mixed-methods approach is used that mainly relies on qualitative studies, but that also has some quantitative elements. The techniques used for collecting information are: questionnaire, on-site interviews, semi-structured interviews, walking interviews, observation, and photographic documentation. This mixed-methodological approach is used to attain a successively deeper understanding and acquire more diverse knowledge of the role that interior design and artwork have for wayfinding, and by that also pointing to the development of wayfinding theory, especially as it refers to notions like orientation, wayfinding, legibility, affordance, and familiarity. These theoretical concepts are used here in analyses and descriptions of way-searchers’, especially newcomers’, experiences and perceptions of the interior health-care environment.The four studies of this thesis point out different areas of interest for analyzing wayfinding in hospitals, thus also indicating how they could be considered to guide the design of wayshowing in hospital environments. The areas of interest can be listed as: spatial heterogeneity (about the making of contrasts between spaces); evoked familiarity (about elements in the hospital space that may bring back memories); overfamiliarity (about places taken for granted due to frequent use); broad participation (about consulting a range of users in all stages of the realization of a hospital environment); users’ background (about considering ethnicity, cultural knowledge, occupation, and previous experiences of art), and time- and duration effects (about acknowledging that perception might change during visits or in stays of a longer duration).
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- Sjöholm, Jennie, 1974-, et al.
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Att bygga för hälsan
- 2021
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In: Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift. - Uppsala : Föreningen Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift. - 0349-2834 .- 2002-3812. ; 80, s. 7-9
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)
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- Pettersson, Cecilia, 1963, et al.
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Debate: Study Protocol: The Physical Environment and Home Healthcare Services: The Development and Content of A Study Protocol to Explore Enablers and Barriers in the Physical Environment for the Delivery of Home Healthcare Services
- 2019
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In: Nordisk arkitekturforskning. - : SINTEF Academic Press. - 1893-5281 .- 1102-5824 .- 1236-6064. ; 31:2, s. 105-122
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Whilst home healthcare services for an aging population currently living in ordinary housing are increasingly needed, physical environments do not adequately meet current levels of demand for such services. The present study protocol, which combines qualitative and quantitative methods, was developed in order to explore the impact of architectural design on enablers and barriers in the delivery of home healthcare services. An interdisciplinary research team, drawn from the fields of architecture, healthcare, and occupational sciences, will execute the forthcoming study. This study protocol describes the design of that study, which will explore the relation between residential design and the conditions for care in ordinary housing.
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- Elf, Marie, 1962-, et al.
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The home as a place for rehabilitation-What is needed?
- 2020
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In: Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities: Spaces for Dwelling and Healthcare. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. : Routledge. - 9780367358730 ; , s. 252-266, s. 252-266
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This chapter aims to contribute to an understanding of the physical environment as an important part of the rehabilitation process for patients recovering from a stroke who rehabilitate at home. To further develop evidence-based care models for rehabilitation at home and incorporate person-environment dynamics, an understanding of how environmental factors relate to everyday life and recovering at home is crucial, especially for persons with long-term conditions, such as stroke survivors. Along with highlighting the challenges for the stroke survivors when rehabilitated at home, we discuss initiatives and intervention needed. We also present important theories that can be used in research in order to increase the knowledge of the person-environment interaction from a societal perspective vital to increase our knowledge of home and health dynamics in this context.
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- Miedema, Elke, 1985
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HEALTH PROMOTION AND HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE - Conceptualizations of Health Promotion in relation to Healthcare Building Design
- 2017
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Licentiate thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Background: Today's healthcare system is under development and reorienting and adapting to embrace a person centred and holistic perspective on health, including a focus on health promotion. This reorientation results in changes in the healthcare models, processes as well as it sets new requirements for healthcare building design. A vast majority of research has been devoted to the relation between inpatient healthcare building design and individual health, e.g. how our hospitals affects treatments and patient outcomes. Less attention has been paid to the relation between outpatient healthcare building design and public or population health and wellbeing, e.g. healthcare in the community to lessen the load on large hospitals. At the same time as the aforementioned development is happening there is a growing body of research emphasizing the importance of the built environment for public health. Objective: This licentiate thesis aim to explore conceptualizations of health promotion in the context of outpatient healthcare building design, the aim is to enable a broader platform to enable incorporation of several health promotion perspectives into future healthcare building design. The main research question is: How is health promotion conceptualized in the context of outpatient healthcare building design? In addition, several other questions emerged in the research process: What aspects of building design result in health-promoting building design? How is health-promoting building design conceptualized in the literature and in practice? What tools and outcomes are referred to when evaluating health-promoting building design? Methods: The research included two studies with an explorative approach: a scoping review and a content analysis of interviews. Results: The results present different conceptualizations of health promotion in the context of healthcare building design. In addition, the results provide an interpretation of health-promoting building design. The results also relate to health promotion strategies, perspectives on health-promoting building design and some aspects of building design that can contribute to, or prevent, health promotion. Discussion: The discussion emphasizes challenges related to developing health-promoting building design, such as vague and contradicting definitions and interpretations of core concepts as health promotion and itís interpretation in the built environment. In addition, the discussion highlights the challenges associated with evaluating health-promoting building design. Conclusions: Health promotion perspectives, have been shown to influence healthcare building design through altered implications for the built environment. As shown, healthcare building design thus seems to have the opportunity to promote the health and wellbeing of patients, staff, visitors and the community. However, the vocabulary used to address health promotion, the different perspectives and health-promotion is weak and inconsistent. The thesis therefore proposed definitions for health promotion and health-promoting building design, that might guide future research and discussions on health promotion vocabulary. Future research should focus on developing the health-promoting building design vocabulary, collecting examples of health-promoting building design, relating health promotion theory to existing architecture theory, and methods and outcomes to evaluate health-promotion building design.
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