Background In a global effort to design better hospital buildings for people and organizations, some design principles are still surrounded by great mystery. The aim of this online study was to compare anxiety in an existing single-bed inpatient hospital room with three redesigns of this room in accordance …

De zachte stad. Een term die steeds vaker terugkomt in het debat over de ontwikkeling van onze steden. Een term met een hoog aaibaarheidsgehalte, maar die tegelijkertijd nog veel vragen oproept. In het nieuwe magazine van Platform Stad en Wijk duiken we daarom dieper in dit concept. Maar we werpen er …

The concept of Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments (SHAFE) emphasises the comprehensive person-centred experience as essential to promoting living environments. SHAFE takes an interdisciplinary approach, conceptualising complete and multidisciplinary solutions for an inclusive society. From this …

Vacant land can provide social and ecological benefits to cities as they are informally used by people and spontaneously populated by animals and plant-life. However, planners and policy makers often frame vacant land as ‘empty’, ‘blank’ spaces, making it difficult to acknowledge informal and more-than-human …

Urban densification is a key strategy to accommodate rapid urban population growth, but emerging evidence suggests serious risks of urban densification for individuals’ mental health. To better understand the complex pathways from urban densification to mental health, we integrated interdisciplinary …

De wereld is volop in beweging - en is natuurlijk ook altijd al in beweging geweest. Alleen ligt alles nu meer onder een vergrootglas. Het is alsof we de grote bewegingen door de kennis en middelen die ons ter beschikking staan beter dan ooit kunnen waarnemen, begrijpen en delen.

INTRODUCTION: To facilitate various transitions of medical residents, healthcare team members and departments may employ various organizational socialization strategies, including formal and informal onboarding methods. However, residents' preferences for these organizational socialization strategies …

This chapter discusses the artistic project Future Wake (2021) by Ahnjili Zhuparris and Tim van Ommeren that examines predictive policing. By shifting the focus from possible future crime offenders to possible future victims of fatal police encounters, using visual and affective means rather than expert …