Monday, April 20, 2026

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Alex Trebeck Theatre

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Overview

Anne Carlyle

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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

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