Research team
Expertise
Margo Annemans is trained as an engineer-architect and anthropologist. She is assistant professor at the Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp in the programme of Interior Architecture. She teaches qualitative research methods for (interior)designers and the master studio "Morphology of the Interior". She is fascinated by how the built environment impacts on the health and well-being of various users and how insight into user experience can be introduced in architectural design practice. Her research mainly focusses on care contexts (acute care, rehabilitation, psychiatry, palliative care, penance) in which she pays specific attention to health and well-being, user-experience, and inclusive design.
Interdisciplinary research project cocreation predesign BYPASS project
Abstract
The part of the Middelheim Museum (Middelheim East) adjacent to the hospital, redesigned around the theme of "Hospita(bi)lity": the site will be redesigned, with the aim of working interactively, focusing on both physical and mental mobility. In addition to landscape intervention, we foresee artistic interventions, for which artists will develop a welcoming and beneficial environment together with patients and various experts. The end result is a total experience garden, inviting movement and sensory experiences, as well as reflection and dialogue. The idea behind BYPASS comes from scientific medical and urban planning research showing that a quality environment contributes to better physical and mental recovery for patients, and contributes to a greater quality of life for city citizens in general. With BYPASS, we unlock healthcare facilities and museum: in a daily and informal way. But we also go further. With a participatory design process and strong programming, we are creating encounters between the children and young people of UKJA, their caregivers, scientists, designers, city planners and wider visitors to the wider area, volunteers, staff and visitors to the museum. Thus, in addition to a new quality public accommodation space, this innovative intervention maximizes a unique co-creation process, with interesting learning opportunities, and sustainable contribution to local, regional and international policy visions on care, healthy living, green and water management. Within this service agreement, UAntwerpen takes on a mission as a subcontractor of the City of Antwerp, particularly by feeding the co-creation in the preliminary design of the BYPASS project through interdisciplinary research.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Glazemakers Inge
- Co-promoter: Annemans Margo
- Co-promoter: Van Acker Maarten
Research team(s)
Project type(s)
- Research Project