DESIGNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR HEALTH
Whole–Community Wellness Lecture Series 

 


         

 

 

A healthy community is one that continuously creates and improves both its physical and social environments, helping people to support one another in aspects of daily life and to develop to their fullest potential.

- U.S. Department of Health and Human Service

 

 

 

Schedule of Events

Ergonomics and Healthcare IT 2011: Current Issues and Future Trends
Alan Hedge, PhD, CPE


Panel Discussion:
Health, Information Technology, and Best Practices –
Applying the Insights of Dr. Hedge’s Lecture


Engaging the Community to Build Children's Hospitals
Bruce Komiske


Panel Discussion: 
Engaging the Community in the Arts and Healthcare


Designing the Built Environment for the Aging and Others
Patricia Moore


Panel Discussion: 
Designing the Built Environment for the Aging and Others – Applying Moore’s insights to Nashville

 

 

 

Information on the 2010 Designing Environments for Health Lecture Series

 

 

The Nashville Civic Design Center (NCDC), in collaboration with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Architecture and Design, is pleased to present the Lecture Series, “Designing Environments for Health,” exploring how the built environment influences physical, mental, emotional, and social health. The Nashville series is part of a course offering at UTK. 

 

First held in spring 2009, the series features internationally recognized speakers and authors with expertise in the fields of health care planning and design, and presents an opportunity for cross-disciplinary collaboration among several programs including nutrition and exercise, the study of obesity, gerontology, psychology and even social work.

 

Through this series, education and practice meet for to discuss how the creation and organization of space can meaningfully impact the human experience, health, and wellness.

 

The lecture series will feature three internationally recognized speakers and authors, as well as follow up sessions in a panel format with local stakeholders.

Admission for the series is FREE
Note: $45 will be collected for those requiring AIA registration as a Health Safety Welfare (HSW) CEU.

Please contact Gary Gaston for further information or group and package rates.

 

Designing Environments for Health 2011 Series

2011 Lecture Series Flyer (PDF, 176KB)

 


Schedule

Panel Discussion: Baby Boomers and Disabled Veterans:
Designing For Human Limitations

In the next 20 years, our society will be faced with one of the most challenging social dilemmas in our history –  our aging baby boomer population, and our ability to provide suitable living accommodations, given the many disabilities associated with the geriatric population. Our total disabled veteran population has increased to over 2.9 million, and many of these veterans will also require special accommodations. Are there similarities in the needs of these groups? Can the existing built environment accommodate these groups within our neighborhoods and cities without the stereotype “Old Folks Home” mentality? How these needs can be met by the government or private sector and what are the obstacles and opportunities?

 

MODERATOR


Jeff Holmes
Senior VP, Architect, HFR Design
Commander, 278 Armored Calvary Regiment
 
PANELISTS

Sgt. Kevin Downs
Disabled Veteran, Iraq 2005

Many-Bears Grinder
Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs
 
Kate Monaghan
Consultant, Partnering Services

John Spooner
Executive Vice President, Greystone Communities

 

Thursday April 28
Location: 
Nashville Civic Design Center
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

 


Past Events  

Ergonomics and Healthcare IT 2011: Current Issues and Future Trends
Alan Hedge, PhD, CPE

 

     Sponsored by Humanscale


Thursday Feb. 10
University Club
402 Garland Avenue
Nashville, TN 37212

Reception begins at 5:00 p.m., Lecture 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

 

About our speaker:
Alan Hedge, PhD, CPE, is an internationally known expert in ergonomics and health.  As the Director of Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory in the Dept. of Design and Environmental Analysis, at Cornell University, his latest research involves the Human impact of the Electronic Health Record.

View Hedge's full bio here

 

Hedge Lecture Flyer (PDF, 156KB)

 

 


Panel Discussion: 

Health, Information Technology, and Best Practices –
Applying the Insights of Dr. Hedge’s Lecture

 

Moderated by John Rouse, publisher of Contract Magazine

 

Thursday Feb. 24
Location: Nashville Civic Design Center
5:30
 p.m. – 7:30p.m.

 

Panelists: 

Jim Brownrigg 
Vice President, Turner Healthcare

Deborah Burnett, ASID, CMG
Epigenetic Design Consultant

Mike McMillen 
Senior Communications Technology Designer, Gresham Smith and Partners

Robert Stewart 
Director of Information Technology for Design and Construction, Hospital Corporation of America

 

Flyer for February Panel (PDF, 132KB)

 

 

 

Engaging the Community to Build Children's Hospitals

Bruce Komiske

Bruce Komiske     Sponsored by:  

 

Thursday March 24

 

University Club
402 Garland Avenue
Nashville, TN 37212

 

Reception: begins at 5:00 p.m. , Lecture 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

 

About our speaker:
Bruce Komiske is considered a “expert” on all facets of hospital operations, planning, design and construction. As Chief of New Hospital Design and Construction, Children Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Bruce is leading the team to create the tallest children’s hospital in the world. He is an experienced healthcare executive who has had the opportunity to plan, build, operate and raise philanthropic support for eight new hospitals, each more innovative than the previous.

View Komiske's full bio here

Flyer for Komiske Lecture (PDF, 136KB)

 

 

Panel Discussion: Engaging the Community in the Arts and Healthcare

Event Sponsor:

ESa - Celebrating 50 years

A panel discussion on how health wellness design and culture can come together to create dynamic healing environments.

Moderated by
Harry Chapman
Director of Development and Major Gifts
 
 
Panelists:
Donna Glassford
Executive Director of Cultural Enrichment,
 
David Minnigan
 
Michelle Toungette
 
Thursday March 31
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Waddlington Conference Room B
2200 Children’s Way

 

Panel Discussion Flyer

 

 

 

 

Design for All: Inclusivity for a Quality Lifespan

Patricia Moore

     

  

 

Sponsored by 

HFR Design

Thursday April 14
University Club

402 Garland Avenue
Nashville, TN 37212

Reception: begins at 5:00p.m., Lecture 6:00p.m.– 7:30 p.m.

 

Patricia Moore is an internationally renowned gerontologist and designer, and a leading authority on consumer life span behaviors and requirements. For three years (1979-1982), in an exceptional and daring experiment, Moore traveled throughout the United States and Canada disguised as women more than 80 years old. With her body altered to simulate the normal sensory changes associated with aging, she responded to people, products, and environments as an elder. Moore is a frequent international lecturer, media guest, author of numerous articles and of the books DISGUISED: A True Story, The Business of Aging (2010), and OUCH! Why Bad Design Hurts (in the works).

View Moore's full bio here

 

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