Start of the course Evidence-Informed Design in collaboration with Klinikum Austria Gesundheitsgruppe
The course Evidence-Informed Design at TU Wien, led by Dr.-Ing. Maja Kevdzija is realised in collaboration with Klinikum Austria with the topic The New World of Rehabilitation.
10/6/20251 min read
This is an architecture ideas competition embedded in the TU Wien course “Evidence-informed Design – The New World of Rehabilitation”, developed in collaboration with Klinikum Austria Gesundheitsgruppe. Student teams create “Rehab visions for 2040” by combining theory with field research and real planning inputs, supported by feedback from Klinikum Austria experts. Participation includes a two-day excursion to Klinikum am Kurpark Baden and Klinikum Bad Gleichenberg. The research and design topics focus on key spaces and experiences in rehabilitation settings, including arrival and welcome areas, places for encounter and retreat, flexible therapy rooms, patient rooms conceived as a “home away from home,” and staff social spaces that balance exchange and recovery.
In the Evidence-Informed Design course, participants are presented with real-life design situations in healthcare environments and adopt the role of a researcher to generate new evidence and use it to guide the development of architectural solutions to address these challenges. The scientific method will be introduced to generate guidelines within the architectural design process and upgrade conventional design techniques by generating evidence for informing design decisions. Through a series of lectures and practical exercises, this course explores the design requirements arising from critical patient-centred challenges in healthcare environments (e.g., demographic change, difficult wayfinding, low patient mobility) and the methods that support architectural solutions to address these challenges in healthcare facilities.
