The experience of lying.
Informing the design of hospital architecture on patients' spatial experience in motion.
Hospital buildings tend to be experienced by patients from a, for architects, atypical perspective, namely lying in a hospital bed, statically and in motion. This altered perspective has a significant impact on patients’ spatial experience. Gaining insight into this experience is for most architects not trivial, but crucial if they are to design truly patient-centred hospitals.
The aim of this project is twofold. First it aims to gain insights into patients’ spatial experience (in motion). To this end the project investigates which aspects relevant to architectural practice have an impact on patients’ spatial experience of a hospital environment, static and in motion. The second aim is to inform hospital design on these insights to anticipate the needs of patients and other users. To this end it is investigated how insights into patients’ spatial experience (in motion) can be translated in a format that is applicable for architectural practice.
The project contains specific contributions for architects, healthcare providers and researchers. By adequately translating the insights gained into patients’ spatial experience in motion to these three groups, the project takes a first step towards realising truly patient-centred hospital buildings.
Publications
- Annemans, M., Van Audenhove, C., Vermolen, H., Heylighen, A. (2018).Rethinking hospital design: accommodating a growing diversity of patientsInternational Journal of Nursing Studies.
- Annemans, M., Van Audenhove, C., Vermolen, H., Heylighen, A. (2018).The Role of Space in Patients' Experience of an Emergency Department: A Qualitative StudyJournal of Emergency Nursing; 2018; Vol. 44; iss. 2; pp. 139 - 145.
- Annemans, M., Van Audenhove, C., Vermolen, H., Heylighen, A. (2018).Inpatients’ Spatial Experience: Interactions Between Material, Social, and Time-Related AspectsSpace Culture; 2018; pp. 1 - 17.
- Annemans, M., Van Audenhove, C., Vermolen, H., Heylighen, A. (2017).Being wheeled through the hospital: How can design be informed about hospital patients’ spatial experience in motion?In: Spinney J., Reimer S., Pinch P. (Eds.), Mobilising Design; 2017; pp. 169 - 185. Routledge.
- Annemans, M., Van Audenhove, C., Vermolen, H., Heylighen, A. (2016).Being Wheeled or Walking: A Qualitative Study of Patients' Spatial Experience in Two Distinct Day Surgery CentersHERD-Health Environments Research Design Journal; 2016; Vol. 9; iss. 3; pp. 176 - 189.
- Annemans, Margo; Heylighen, Ann (Supervisor); Van Audenhove, Chantal (Co-Supervisor); Vermolen, Hilde (Co-Supervisor) (2015).The Experience of Lying: Informing the design of hospital architecture on patients' spatial experience in motionPhD dissertation. KU Leuven, Faculty of Engineering Science.
- Annemans, M., Van der Linden, V., Karanastasi, E., Heylighen, A. (2015).Learning to Shape Places of Care by Empathising with Patients and CaregiversEngineering 4 Society. Engineering 4 Society. Leuven, 18-19 June 2015 (pp. 7-15).
- Annemans, M., Karanastasi, E., Poponcini, M., Heylighen, A. (2015).The Students Speak: Shaping Places of Care by Empathizing with Patients and CarersIn: Jencks C. (Eds.), The Architecture of Hope Frances Lincoln, 224-229.
- Annemans, M., Heylighen, A. (2014).De beleving van de ruimte vanuit bedIn: van Hoof J., Wouters E. (Eds.), Het verpleeghuis van de toekomst is (een) thuis, Chapt. 37. Houten: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum (Springer Media), 139-140.
- Annemans, M., Van Audenhove, C., Vermolen, H., Heylighen, A. (2014).How to Introduce Experiential User Data: The Use of Information in Architects' Design ProcessDesign's Big Debates. The Design Research Society's 2014 conference. Umeå (Sweden), 16-19 June 2014 (pp. 1626-1637) Design Research Society & Umeå Institute of Design.
- Annemans, M., Karanastasi, E., Heylighen, A. (2014).From Designing for the Patient to Designing for a PersonIn: Langdon P., Lazar J., Heylighen A., Dong H. (Eds.), Inclusive Designing: Joining Usability, Accessibility, and Inclusion Springer-Verlag, 189-200.
- Annemans, M., Van Audenhove, C., Vermolen, H., Heylighen, A. (2014).Being Transported into the Unknown: How Patients Experience the Route to the Operation RoomIn: Langdon P., Lazar J., Heylighen A., Dong H. (Eds.), Inclusive Designing: Joining Usability, Accessibility, and Inclusion. London: Springer Verlag, 131-141.
- Annemans, M., Van Audenhove, C., Vermolen, H., Heylighen, A. (2012).Hospital Reality from a Lying Perspective: Exploring a Sensory Research ApproachIn: Langdon P., Clarkson P., Robinson P., Lazar J., Heylighen A. (Eds.), Designing Inclusive Systems, Chapt. 1. London: Springer-Verlag, 3-12.
- Annemans, M., Van Audenhove, C., Vermolen, H., Heylighen, A. (2012).What makes an environment healing? Users and designer about the Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre LondonIn Brassett, J., McDonnell, J., Malpass, M. (Eds.), Out of Control. Proceedings of the 8th International Design and Emotion Conference. London, 11-14 September 2012 (pp. 1-8) Design & Emotion.
- Annemans, M., Van Audenhove, C., Vermolen, H., Heylighen, A. (2011).Lying architecture: Experiencing space from a hospital bedProceedings of WELL-BEING 2011: The First International Conference Exploring the Multi-dimensions of Well-being. Birmingham, 18-19 July 2011 Birmingham City University and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
Stakeholders
- Funding: Agency Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology - IWT, osar architects nv
- Principal Investigator: Margo Annemans
- Team Members: arch. Hilde Vermolen, prof. Ann Heylighen, prof. Chantal Van Audenhove
- Project Partner: osar architects nv
