Join us for a transformative exploration of hospital environments, and the importance of considering noise, light, and the senses.
Visiting from the University of Bristol, A/Prof Victoria Bates will reflect on the history of hospital sensory experiences in the NHS, while QUT’s A/Prof Veronica Garcia-Hansen will focus on the role of lighting. Oystein (Stein) Tronstead from The Prince Charles Hospital will share findings from the ‘ICU of the future’ project, and the importance of patient-centred design to ensure patients thrive, not just survive.
SPEAKERS
How the noises of a hospital can become a healing soundscape
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Associate Professor Victoria Bates, University of Bristol
Victoria is Associate Professor in Modern Medical History at the University of Bristol. She was awarded a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship (202-2027) for the project Sensing Spaces of Healthcare: Rethinking the NHS Hospital, which asks how people have experienced hospitals through time, and the legacy of their perceptions in current hospital design. It will create the first sensory history of hospitals. Harnessing participatory practices, her research is creating a novel multidisciplinary methodology for eliciting memories and sensations of hospitals, which will encourage new ways of thinking and practices among researchers, architects, and designers. Her recent book is Making Noise in the Modern Hospital (2021). |
Creating healing environments in hospitals through efficient lighting design
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Associate Professor Veronica Garcia-Hansen, QUT
Veronica is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Built Environment, with a background in architecture design and building science. Her principal area of research focuses on the interplay between building design and performance, visual and thermal comfort and human health and wellbeing. A 2020 WiSTEM2D (Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing, and Design) Johnson & Johnson Scholar, she will share findings from this project exploring how to create healing environments in hospitals through efficient lighting design. |
ICU of the future project – Patient-centred design to ensure patients thrive, not just survive
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Oystein Tronstad, Physiotherapy Clinical Lead and Project Manager ICU of the future project, The Prince Charles Hospital. Stein is a Physiotherapy Researcher and manager of The Prince Charles Hospital’s Critical Care Research Group. He is a physiotherapy clinical lead at The Prince Charles Hospital with extensive critical care clinical and research experience. He continues to manage several clinical projects, including the ‘ICU of the Future’ project, a collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and intersectoral project, putting patients at the centre of ICU design. Led by The Prince Charles Hospital’s Critical Care Research Group, the project aims to fundamentally redesign the ICU environment to not only achieve survival, but provide a superior recovery experience, optimised outcomes of care and quality of life, incorporating the patient’s needs and wishes into an improved ICU design. Using advanced technology and evidence-based design, the new bedspaces tailor the care environment to patient’s shifting clinical needs and personal preferences. |
DETAILS
Date: Monday 27 November 2023
Time: 2-4:3opm (includes networking at the end of the session)
Venue: QUT Kelvin Grove Campus, Z9, Room 607
RSVP via Eventbrite: Monday 20 November 2023
RUN SHEET
| 2:00pm-2:10pm | Welcome & intro Prof Evonne Miller, QUT Design Lab |
| 2:10pm-2:40pm | A/Prof Victoria Bates, University of Bristol |
| 2:40pm-2:50pm | A/Prof Veronica Garcia-Hansen, QUT Architecture & Built Environment |
| 2:50pm-3:00pm | Oystein Tronstead, The Prince Charles Hospital Critical Care Research Group |
| 3:00pm-3:30pm | Panel discussion facilitated by A/Prof Jen Seevinck |
| 3:30pm-4:30pm | Informal networking on level 6 balcony |
Details:
| Location: | Room Z9-607, QUT Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane [link to map] |
| Start Date: | 27/11/2023 [add to calendar] |
| Start Time: | 2:00pm |
| End Date: | 27/11/2023 |
| End Time: | 4:30pm |
| RSVP By: | Monday 20th of November 2023 |
| Cost: | Nil |
| Organiser: | QUT Design Lab |
| Enquiries: | QUT Design Lab: designlab@qut.edu.au |
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