Territories of Engagement in the Design of Ecohumanist Healthcare Environments — Peters 2016

More and more, architects, engineers, and people in charge of running healthcare facilities are being asked to show that they can identify and put into context the ever-changing and expanding fields of knowledge about the role of energy conservation and carbon neutrality in healthcare treatment environments and the areas around them. This means making sense of a huge amount of information about how buildings use energy and putting together complex and sometimes contradictory goals with the needs of building residents. Ecohumanist Design Strategies: In response, a multidimensional framework is presented with the goal of advancing theory and practice in the areas of designers, direct caregivers, and administrators using ecohumanist design strategies to create ecohumanist healthcare environments. There are ten territories for engagement that show important themes and lines of inquiry in theory and practice. The patient, the patient's important people, and the caregiver are at the center of the relationship between the built environment and the well-being of the occupants.

Peters T, Verderber S. Territories of Engagement in the Design of Ecohumanist Healthcare Environments. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal. 2017;10(2):104-123. doi:10.1177/1937586716668635