DESIGNING HEALING ENVIRONMENTS

Interior view of the Psycho Oncological Competence Center

In the series ‘architecture and psychology’, the technical university of delft compiles lectures and workshops that present the potential and challenges of a psychologically based design theory. The series is an initiative of the student representatives of the faculty of architecture, who have issued a manifesto lamenting the under-representation of the human sciences. In their lecture ‘designing healing environments’, Gemma Koppen and Tanja C. Vollmer present and discuss the design practice of kopvol architecture & psychology.