This seminar is organised by the reesearch group "Environment, Technology and Participation and presents Melissa Piatkowski from the Oslo Metropolotan University.
Biography:
Melissa Piatkowski is an environmental psychologist with a background in both architecture and social science. She has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between research and practice in healthcare design. She is originally from Colorado, but has found her home in Norway.
Presentation description:
To improve the quality of built environments, architects have a vast amount of information to consider in the design process. The information they use to make decisions is especially important in healthcare design, where empirical studies have demonstrated a link between design and outcomes like patient safety and well-being. Despite this significant body of empirical knowledge in healthcare design, the use of scientific research in decision-making within the profession appears to be quite limited. There are many challenges to the implementation of approaches like evidence-based design, beginning with a limited understanding of how architects think about “research” in the first place.
Melissa will share results from a study aimed at enhancing the understanding of architects’ perceptions and conceptualizations of research in healthcare architecture. Drawing on social representation theory, this study explores social representations of research that coexist in the profession of architecture.
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