Confronting Ableism in a Post-COVID World: Designing for World-Familiarity Through Acts of Defamiliarization.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a pervasive digitalization of our social and practical lives. For many, this has signified a substantial loss, with the pandemic underscoring that in-person interactions play a key if not constitutive role in well-being. At the same time, many disabled people and disability rights activists have celebrated...

Spreading processes in complex networks and systems

Complex systems are made up of many interconnected components. The interactions between components further produce emerging complex collective behaviors. In most cases, a complex system can be represented as a network in which the nodes represent the elements and the connected links illustrate the interactions. The spreading process is one of...

Towards a resilient hospital design: Emerging design considerations for future healthcare facilities after the pandemic COVID-19

COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of the healthcare systems in society. The pandemic overwhelmed hospitals and forced rapid and radical changes in healthcare organizations' working practices and management structures (MASS Design Group, 2020; Ramboll, 2021; Capolongo et al., 2020). The virus led to unfamiliar environments, new spatial...

A typological analysis of temporary medical structures before and during the Covid-19 pandemic: How can design help us to deal with situations of crisis and emergency?

In situations of crisis, regular hospitals often do not longer suffice the high demand for medical care. In this case, temporary medical structures become indispensable. The Covid 19 pandemic brought to the fore architectural challenges such as the spatial reorganization of healthcare facilities for high occupancy levels, the issue of infection...

Operating Room Scheduling during COVID-19: An advice on planning models in the Reinier de Graaf hospital

During the first COVID-19 wave in the Netherlands, hospitals had to scale down their elective care all over the hospital to make room for COVID-19 patients. Even the Operating Room (OR) reduced their surgeries to acute care. It is, however, hard to define how much the OR should downscale. Also, there are no national plans on how hospitals should...

Transportation technologies, sharing economy, and teleactivities: Implications for built environment and travel

This paper reviews how teleactivities, the sharing economy, and emerging transportation technologies – components of what we could call the “App City” – may influence travel behavior and the built environment. Findings suggest that teleactivities may substitute some trips but generate others. Telework and teleconferencing may reduce total...

A study on office workplace modification during the COVID-19 pandemic in The Netherlands

Purpose<br/>Triggered by public concerns over office workplace safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study sheds light on the office workplace environment and aims to investigate how organisations respond to forces from the external environment (impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic) and how they modify their office workplace management...

Perceptual breakdown during a global pandemic: introducing phenomenological insights for digital mental health purposes

Online therapy sessions and other forms of digital mental health services (DMH) have seen a sharp spike in new users since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Having little access to their social networks and support systems, people have had to turn to digital tools and spaces to cope with their experiences of anxiety and loss. With no clear end...

Chachat: 
towards a design to support Chinese young adults’ mental health during quarantine in corona crisis

This master graduation project was started from the current issue - COVID 19 crisis, explored a special context - the first quarantined city, Wuhan. The main purpose of this project is to get deeper understanding of the people who were quarantined at home for long time, and try to use interactive design to help them improve their mental states...