HEALTH & EQUALITY – Building better healthcare landscapes 

The symposium discusses the challenges of fair and humane healthcare structures in Germany and other European countries. How can we create innovative and future-oriented hospital structures  considering current disruptions, such as the planned reorganisation of the hospital landscape in Germany, the increasing shortage of staff, climate change, and the rapidly advancing digitalisation?

Christine Nickl-Weller | symposium founder and president, Nickl & Partner Architekten AG, ENAH advisory board, Hans und Christine Nickl-Stiftung

Sabine Dittmar | Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Ministry of Health

Stefanie Bürkle | Vice-director, Institute of Architecture,  Berlin University of Technology

Focus on management strategies & the redistribution of health care services

Hospitals in Germany are under extremely high pressure in terms of finance and staff. The insolvency of many hospitals is at stake. A large-scale hospital reform is intended to counteract this development. What impact will the reform efforts have on Germany's hospital landscape? 

What transformation processes are necessary to ensure that hospitals are future-proof?

And which new (architectural and organizational) concepts will support this transformation? 

How can the reform be used to ensure fairer and higher quality care for all?

Moderation: Sybille Seitz, Radio- & Fernsehmoderatorin, RBB/ARD Berlin

Reinhard Busse | Head of the Department for Health Care Management at the Faculty of Economics and Management at TU Berlin, Member, Government Commission for modern and needs-based hospital care

Jochen Werner | Chairman of the Executive Board of University Medicine Essen

Magnus Nickl | Executive board Nickl & Partner Architekten Schweiz AG

Panel discussion 

Share your impressions over coffee, tea and snacks 

Focus on Urban Health

Health promotion in the living environment becomes an increasingly important component of sustainable health care systems. It is in the design of health-promoting urban landscapes that we can create fair opportunities for a healthy lifestyle.

How to design health-promoting living and working environments?

How can inequalities in access to health services be reduced through health-promoting urban development? 

Moderation: Cor Wagenaar | Chair of the department History and Theory of Architecture and Town planning, Groningen University (NL), Assoc.prof. at TU Delft, Head of the Expertise Center Architecture, Urbanism and Health

Ben van Berkel | Founder and Principle of Architect UNStudio Amsterdam (NL)

Aaron Betsky |  Critic, former Director School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech (US)

Flemming Rafn | Partner, TREDJE NATUR  (DK)

Panel discussion

The catering team of the academy of arts awaits you for a delicious lunch.

More opportunities to network or to visit the stands of our supporting partners.

Focus on sustainable development

Healthcare buildings are particularly affected by the progressive impacts of climate change, such as heat events, heat island effects and heavy rainfall. At the same time, healthcare facilities are partly responsible for climate change due to their high CO² emissions and are also struggling with rapidly rising energy prices. Climate resilience and climate neutrality in the healthcare sector are therefore clearly formulated goals by both the German government and the EU. 

How can these be achieved by hospitals and hospital construction without bringing hospitals to the edge of bankruptcy? 

What structures and regulations need to be created?  

The session gives insights into the zero carbon & climate-resilience strategy of  the NHS.

Moderation: Lars Steffensen | Partner at KONTEKST (DK)

Wilfried von Eiff | Academic Director of the Center for Health Management and Regulation at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and Head of the Center for Hospital Management, University of Muenster

Frank Dzukowski | Head of the Management Unit for Sustainability and Climate Management at UKE Hamburg and Managing Director of the technical UKE-Dienstleistungs-GmbHs

Sunand Prasad | Principal Health at Perkins & Will, Chairman of UK Green Building Council (UK) 

Matthew Tulley | Redevelopment Director at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust  (UK)

Share your impressions over coffee, tea and snacks 

Focus on digitalisation trends in hospitals and healthcare architecture

What will be the impact of digitalisation on the hospital landscape of the future and on future healthcare architecture? How can human-centered healthcare be guaranteed when data and logarithms determine the processes in hospitals? The question willl be discussed both under architectural as well as  ethical aspects. 

Moderation: Sacha Menz | Professor ETH-Z |

Executive Director Future Cities Lab Global, Zurich - Singapore | sam architects (CH)

Andréa Belliger | Institute for Communication & Leadership IKF, Luzern (CH)

Giovanni Maio | Director, Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Freiburg 

Christine Binswanger | Senior partner at Herzog & de Meuron Architects (CH) 

Stig Vesterager Gothelf | Senior Partner, Head of Design, 3XN (DK)

Panel discussion