Sharing knowledge

We want to help ensure that knowledge about health-promoting design does not end up in the drawer, but is applied in the world. Therefore, we strive to communicate current evidence-based findings.

In our talks, publications and workshops we address topics including public health care/public health, architectural psychology, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and participatory design. In addition, we provide materials that you can use for your own purposes.

Would you like to learn more about health-promoting design?

Would you like to train your employees in health-promoting design?

Are you facing a design challenge and looking for new impulses?

Feel free to contact us!

Talks and workshops

In scientific presentations and workshops at conferences and congresses, we want to contribute to passing on knowledge from the field of health-promoting design and bring it into the discourse. This also includes challenging and improving the theories and concepts of our work in exchange with others.

Rehn-Groenendijk, J. (2024). Co-design workshop on health-promoting design potentials in prisons and forensic psychiatric wards. Workshop bei der Konferenz „Therapeutic Spaces Behind Bars: Eco-psychosocially Supportive Prisons and Forensic Psychiatric Wards“, 26.-27. Februar 2024, London.

Müller, H. & Rehn-Groenendijk, J. (2023). Nutzer:innen und Nutzungen über das Sichtbare hinaus verstehen – Systemische evidenzbasierte Raumgestaltung. Vortrag beim Innenarchitektur Symposium „Invisible Space“, 30. November 2023, Luzern.

Rehn-Groenendijk, J., Müller, H. & Wasmer, A. (2023). Design for urban mental health: A framework to develop small-scale design interventions in public space. Vortrag bei der International Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP), 20.-23. Juni 2023, Aarhus.

Müller, H., Rehn-Groenendijk, J. & Wasmer, A. (2022). Urban design interventions for fostering mental health and mental health literacy. Workshop bei der European Public Health Association (EUPHA) Konferenz, 09.-12. November 2022, Berlin.

Müller, H., Rehn-Groenendijk, J. & Wasmer, A. (2022). Deploying cities as resource for fostering mental health and wellbeing. Presentation at the International Association of Person-Environment Studies (IAPS) Conference, 04-08th July 2022, remote.

A podcast on healthy design

The podcast "Gesunde Gestaltung" (Healthy Design) aims to communicate topics of health-promoting design from different disciplinary perspectives for the German-speaking region. Thereby, design-specific topics (e.g. design methods) as well as topics of adjacent disciplines (e.g. research methods and scientific findings) are considered. In this context, "design" means all forms from service and system to graphics and product to space and landscape.

Teaching and tools

In the context of academic teaching, we contribute to sharing findings and methods of health-promoting design. In addition, we continuously develop tools and aids to apply these approaches in practical work.

Get to know us.

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4 Fields of work

Medicine

What if the design of a doctor's office, the interplay of spaces, processes and communication media could lead to a more effective daily treatment routine and enable greater trust and openness among patients?

Architecture

Health-promoting design requires a comprehensive and scientifically sound determination of needs and contextual factors. To this end, we offer a wide range of survey, analysis and consulting services for architects.

Psychotherapy

How can the spatial conditions favor the therapeutic process, create trust and radiate security and warmth?

Communicate

We want to help ensure that knowledge about health-promoting design does not end up in the drawer, but is applied in the world. Therefore, we strive to communicate current evidence-based findings.