Visual Arts and Health - Art in hospitals: past and present
Institutional Communication Service
27 August 2024
In this talk, Enzo Grossi will reveal how art in the healthcare environment can be a different way of increasing the perception of well-being in patients and people who frequent these places (healthcare staff, caregivers, support services) in order to favour psycho-physical benefits, improve the healthcare service, contribute to expanding access to culture and fostering the development of new welfare policies. The topic will be approached from a medical-scientific perspective, focusing on the best available international studies. The discussants will be Walter Angonese, architect and director of the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio), and Michael Grotzer, medical director of the Kinderspital Zurich, and they will present emblematic and salutogenic art projects in healthcare facilities. Luigi Di Corato will coordinate the discussion.
Save the date: Monday, 25 November 2024 at 6 pm in the Multipurpouse room, East Campus Lugano (Via La Santa, Lugano-Viganello).
Speaker: Enzo Grossi, IBSA Foundation (CH); Villa Santa Maria Foundation (IT)
Discussant:
Walter Angonese, Director, Dean and Full Professor of the Academy of Architecture USI (CH)
Michael Groetzer, Prof. Dr. med, Medical Director, Kinderspital Zurich; Full Professor of Paediatrics, University of Zurich (CH)
Enzo Grossi
Coordinator of the course and member of the Advisory Board of IBSA Foundation for scientific research. Over the last 15 years, he has worked extensively in the fields of art, culture and health with a wide range of scientific publications, seminars and university courses. Since 2012, he has been Scientific Director of the ‘Villa Santa Maria’ Foundation in Tavernerio (Como) and of the Institute of the same name, a home for children and adolescents suffering from neuropsychiatric disorders. Since 2016 he has been Scientific Advisor for the Bracco Foundation, Milan. He has authored more than 500 publications listed on Google Scholar and more than 200 listed on PubMed.
Walter Angonese
Born in Caldaro in South Tyrol (1961), he studied architecture at IUAV in Venice. In 1992 he co-founded A5 architekten, and in 2002 he founded Angonese Walter Architekt based in Caldaro. He teaches as a visiting professor at several European universities, and since 2007 at the USI Academy of Architecture, where he has been director since 2021. In 2011, he was appointed full professor of design. His projects are published and recognised internationally. He lives between Caldaro and Mendrisio.
Michael Groetzer
Prof. Grotzer is full professor of paediatrics at the University of Zurich. Since 2018, he has been serving as Medical Director of Kinderspital Zurich. In addition to his specialization in paediatrics, he is also specialised in paediatric oncology. He spent three years as a research fellow at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (USA) and has been the recipient of numerous awards for his research activities. He is currently in the process of moving the children’s hospital to a new building (by Herzog & de Meuron).