You Me Us
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| Monday, April 20, 2026 |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM |
| Alex Trebeck Theatre |
Overview
Anne Carlyle
Details
The session will explore how identities and lived experience can enrich and improve planning and design of healthcare spaces – the environments we build. It will also discuss the inherent tensions between a focus on identity, diversity and difference in our current broader culture and our collective responsibility to build places that bridge between/across diverse identities – both individual and cultural – to serve, respect and support everyone including patients, families, communities and health professionals
Reflections are based on a life of practice in design for healthcare facilities of all kinds, from acute care hospitals and long-term care residences, to children’s treatment and community health centres. Project examples will illustrate inspirations and strategies – how to plan and build for spaces that resonate with all of us, and will have a long, sustainable life.
Learning Objectives: Recall approaches and design strategies that improve the quality of healthcare spaces and enhance the well-being of all users
Speaker
Anne Carlyle
Carlyle Design Associates Ltd
You Me Us
Biography
Anne Carlyle, RCA, ARIDO Fellow, IDC, LEED APAnne Carlyle is an award-winning designer with 45 years of experience in the planning and design of health care environments. She believes passionately that design is a collaborative undertaking and that solutions are enriched by shared thinking. With her focus on enhancing the human experience, Anne’s practice increasingly involves strategies and processes to integrate art inspired by place and community.Anne’s firm, founded in 1984, is known for thoughtful work in care facilities for children, elders, community organizations and those with special needs. Experience has included new construction and renovation projects for clients in Canada and the United States. Working with complex client organizations and within multi-disciplinary design teams, her role has varied from the facilitation of visioning workshops through programming, space planning and interior design, to the development of wayfinding and signage and vibrant, site-specific public art programs. www.carlyledesign.ca
COI Disclosure: I do not have an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with any for-profit or not-for-profit organizations.
COI Disclosure: I do not have an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with any for-profit or not-for-profit organizations.
