The Health@BK platform The Health@BK platform is a ‘cross over’ initiative that stimulates and facilitates intense cooperation between all departments promoting research and education projects in the field of health care at the Faculty of the Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology. It stimulates multidisciplinary research into the complex relationships between the built environment, health and active aging and explores the opportunities (and limits) of Evidence Based Design. It initiates joint design studios, seminars, lunch lectures at the Faculty as well as the preparation of grant proposals. It represents health related projects at national and international conferences and invites scholars and students working in this field to Delft. The health related activities at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment covers a wide range of topics. Even so, the various approaches to these topics have a lot in common: they combine the analysis of the built environment (at all scale levels) with the study of the health effects on the people who work, live or, in the case of healthcare buildings, are treated there. International congres 'Building the Future of Health' As part of the international congres
'Building the Future of Health' (June 1st to June 4th 2016), the Health@BK platform organizes a workshop in order to set the Health research agenda at the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment of Delft University of Technology. Program workshop
Block 1: Presentation of the Health@BK platform
- Cor Wagenaar: aims, background and activities of the platform
- Arjen Meijer: Health Research @ BK (angles of the various departments, introduction of the three main fields)
- healthcare institutions: hospitals, psychiatric clinics, nursing homes
- health at home: independent living, facilities for assisted living, e-health, indoor climate
- health and the city: outdoor climate, prevention through the promotion of healthy lifestyles
- Luc Willekens: Health Education @ BK (where in curriculum, opinion of students)
- Prof. Zhang: Hospital Architecture in China
- Moderator: Bas van Eijndhoven
- Participants: Philomena Bluyssens, Arjen Meijer, Clarine van Oel, Cor Wagenaar, Luc Willekens, PhD-students from Delft, the audience