{"id":8415,"date":"2023-12-13T17:35:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T16:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healsafeinterior.com\/?p=8415"},"modified":"2023-12-13T17:35:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T16:35:18","slug":"franz-james-phd-doctor-of-philosophy-in-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healsafeinterior.com\/en\/franz-james-phd-doctor-of-philosophy-in-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Franz James – PhD, Doctor of Philosophy in Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the autumn, our founder Franz James successfully defended his doctoral thesis at HDK-Valand (the University of Gothenburg’s Academy of Design and Crafts) on how the design of the interior can impact the well-being of clients and patients in involuntary care.<\/p>\n

Franz has developed a design research method, “Sketch and Talk,” to get closer to people’s experiences of the physical environment. He uses a sketchbook during the conversation instead of a camera and\/or an interview form.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Additionally, meetings always take place in the client’s own room rather than in a meeting room. Franz mostly sits on the floor and sketches since using a chair would mean sitting at a higher level than the participant. “It’s about being a fellow human being when meeting someone in their private space.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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One clear outcome of Franz’s research is that interior design and architecture must be created from the inside out, from the patient’s\/client’s room and outwards, not the other way around\u2014from facade and entrance to individual rooms. Moreover, Franz argues, “You cannot design environments for involuntary care solely based on a brief. You have to be on-site, and you need to ‘borrow’ people’s lived experiences.”<\/p>\n

We at Healsafe Interi\u00f6r are proud of Franz’s contribution to research and are hopeful that this will lead to more secure AND healing environments in involuntary care in the future.<\/p>\n

More information can be found in Franz James’s thesis “Sketch and Talk” – See button below.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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