ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph and David Allison, both with the Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing (CHFDT), presented “Patient Room Design: Engaging Clinical Teams Through Simulation-Based Evaluation and Design,” during a Center for Health Design webinar. The presentation reviewed the background of the project, timeline, methodology and various phases. The CHFDT team is working with Indiana University Health (IU Health) to design rooms that better meet the needs of and improve safety for both patients and staff. The project evaluated physical mock-ups at four different stages of design refinement, obtained extensive clinician input through simulated patient care scenarios and employed other testing and feedback methodologies, which enabled the team to identify design refinements that mock-ups alone might miss. IU Health is the largest network of physicians in the state of Indiana, offering a unique partnership with Indiana University School of Medicine, one of the nation’s leading medical schools.
ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph and David Allison, both with the Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing (CHFDT), presented “Operating Room Design: Using an Evidence-Based Design Approach,” during an American Institute of Architects, Academy of Architecture for Health webinar. The presentation reviewed the background of the project, timeline, findings, outcomes, design and post-occupancy evaluation. The CHFDT team engaged with health systems and architecture firms as part of a multi-year federally funded patient safety learning lab to design a safer and more ergonomic operating room. The webinar shared how the CHFDT team collaborated with health systems and design professionals to develop concepts for flexible and safe operating room layouts. Findings from this project were implemented in real-world settings at the Medical University of South Carolina and the Emory Musculoskeletal Institute.
ARCHITECTURE – Associate Professor Sallie Hambright-Belue’s and Assistant Professor Berrin Terim’s co-authored article, “Beginning Design Pedagogy: An Ars Oblivionalis,” is selected to be published in the journal for Design Communications Associations (DCA) entitled Representations. This journal is published biannually and acknowledges the papers from the previous DCA Conference that were selected by the DCA Journal Editorial Board to be elevated to include in the Journal.
ARCHITECTURE – Professor Anjali Joseph and doctoral student Devi Soman, both with the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), coauthored an article published in the Health Environments Research & Design Journal titled, Influence of the Physical Environment on Maternal Care for Culturally Diverse Women: A Narrative Review. The review found that most studies focus on maternal or culturally sensitive care settings outside the United States. Since the maternal care environment is an important aspect of their culturally sensitive care experience, further studies exploring the needs and perspectives of racially and ethnically diverse women within maternal care settings in the United States are necessary. Such research can help future healthcare designers contribute toward addressing the ongoing maternal health crisis within the country.
ARCHITECTURE – Professor Anjali Joseph, Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), and colleagues presented “Pediatric Patient Care Pathways in the Emergency Department and Their Effect on Mental and Behavioral Health Patients” at the Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference in Atlanta, GA. The group reviewed recent work from the Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human-centered Design for Pediatric mental and behavioral health in the Emergency Department (RIPCHD.PED) project.
ARCHITECTURE – Professor Anjali Joseph, Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), shared her healthcare design experience in an article published in a Special Edition of Construction & Design. In the article titled “To Optimize OR Design, Put People First,“ Joseph discussed lessons learned over decades of researching, testing and helping to implement healthcare design solutions. She also shared her healthcare design guiding principle that human-centered elements that focus on patients and staff lead to safer spaces and better outcomes.
ARCHITECTURE – Associate Professor Peter Laurence edited the new book Histories of Architecture Education in the United States, a collection of twenty essays by twenty-two contributors, published by Routledge in late 2023. The publication, which began as a conference at University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design, was celebrated with a book launch and talks by Laurence and a number of contributors at Penn in March. The lecture highlighted chapters and themes from the book, as well as speculations about the future of architecture education.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE – Professor Mary G. Padua presented her peer-reviewed work that falls within the realm of transdisciplinary and emancipatory research entitled, “Urban Landscapes of Trauma: the Filipino Diaspora and Collective Memory of the World War II Battle [for the liberation] of Manila”, at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture on March 21st in St. Louis. In late March, Padua was appointed the Dean’s special advisor and member of a steering committee on the Resilient Urban Landscapes postgraduate curriculum initiative at the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University’s Design School, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, P.R.C.
CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – Assistant Professor Jong Han Yoon has been named the winner of the 2024 Pennel Center Research Grant competition. Yoon’s research proposal aims to develop an IoT (Internet of Things) and BIM (Building Information Modeling) -enabled simulation of building evacuation plans against school shootings with the goal of creating a game-based evacuation training system for students using the simulation model.