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The COVID-19 pandemic is heightening awareness around the structure of our health-care systems. This includes the design of the physical and virtual environments where health care is delivered. Many of the issues are not new – the importance of supporting front-line workers or controlling the spread of infection in health-care settings. But now a social dialogue is taking shape on how aspects of our health-care delivery system are prioritized and designed.

What is the impact of virtual telehealth on our delivery of care and is it here to stay? What infrastructure systems failed us in the pandemic and how are they being re-evaluated for greater resilience? From long-term care facilities to academic medical centers, designing for the future is critical.

Join these health-care designers in a discussion on their current thinking about this future, and the impact it will have on health-care delivery in Canada and United States.

Dalhousie School of Architecture Professor, Christine Macy, will guide the discussion as host.

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Panelists

Bryan Langlands (BEDS’91, MArch’92) is a principal and senior medical planner with NBBJ in NYC. His clients include NYU Langone Health, NY Health + Hospitals, Massachusetts General Hospital, Penn Med, Jefferson Health, and Atrium Health. Bryan is on the Steering Committee for the 2022 Edition of Facility Guidelines Institute’s Healthcare Guidelines which sets the minimum requirements for healthcare spaces, and is chair of the FGI’s Beyond Fundamental library.  He was a member of the Greater New York Hospital Association COVID Surge Capacity Task Force, and has spoken on the impact of the pandemic on future health-care planning and design.  Bryan is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and the American College of Healthcare Architects.

Benjie Nycum (BEDS’95, MArch’97) is an architect who leads Nycum + Associates, an architecture, planning and project management firm based in Halifax, N.S., that provides services on projects impacting the lives of people navigating the complete continuum of care in Canada and beyond. Benjie is an adjunct professor and chair of the Professional Practice Teaching Group at the Dalhousie University School of Architecture and a content and instructional services provider at the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada. Benjie presently holds directorships at the Design and Construction Institute, Halifax Stanfield International Airport, and The Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

Host

Christine Macy is a Professor of Architecture at Dalhousie University. In 1990, she established her design partnership with Sarah Bonnemaison — Filum Ltd. — specializing in lightweight structures and public space design. Their early projects included festival architecture for the 1990 Gay Games, and the city of Vancouver’s bicentennial celebration which entailed large “triumphal arches” painted by local artists in four urban parks, writing large the stories of “Arrivals & Encounters” experienced by Indigenous and marginalized peoples in those neighbourhoods. Later projects include the Fuji Pavilion in Montreal’s Botanical Gardens; the Bamboo Pavilion in Sansia, Taiwan; and the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre in Nova Scotia. Their books on festival and portable architecture include Festival Architecture (Routledge 2007) and Responsive Textile Environments (Tuns Press 2007). As an architectural historian, Christine is interested in the social dimensions of environmental design; her and Sarah’s book Architecture and Nature: Creating the American Landscape (Routledge 2003), received the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. From 2008-2019, Christine was Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Dalhousie.