Health Humanities Lecture Series 2024-2025

3 februari 2025

'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us’, or so Winston Churchill once said. For better or for worse, our constructed physical space – the so-called built environment – impacts on our behaviours, our social interactions, and our physical and mental health. The speakers of this year’s LCH² lecture series discuss various examples of the relationship between architectural space and human well-being, from across a range of health humanities, including architecture, literary and colonial history, sociology, and disability studies. In doing so, they will touch on themes as varied as the role of the corridor in hospital architecture, the connections between buildings and disabled bodies in science fiction movies, and the architectural evolution of retirement homes. Join us online and on campus, at KU Leuven, for a series of inspiring health humanities talks about the built environment.

13 February 2025

The Roles of Cancer Care Facilities in Users’ Well-being: Foregrounding the Built Environment and Learning Lessons for Design

Pleuntje Jellema

27 February 2025

A History of the Hospital Corridor: Madness and Civilisation

Roger Luckhurst

27 March 2025

“At least the Belgians built hospitals!”: Myths and Realities of the Belgian 'Medical Model Colony'

Simon De Nys-Ketels

24 April 2025

Sites of Intervention: Disability and the (Built) Environment in Imagined Futures

Alyson Patsavas

8 May 2025

Architectural Neuroimmunology: Examining the Impact of Architectural Form on Neurophysiological Activity

Cleo Valentine

22 May 2025

The 'Return' of the Retirement Home: Anthropology, Architecture and Policy Analysis in the Historiography of Postwar Housing for Older People in the Netherlands

Karin Bijsterveld

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