Registration via e-mail until 4th December: bwg.publicrelations@hu-berlin.de

After the General Introduction by the Italian Ambassador and Fresenius Medical Care, the co-sponsors of the coference, and a thematic introduction by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schäffner and Prof. Alfred Jacoby, follows a Keynote Speech by Joe M. Powell, the Executive Director of the Academy for Healthcare Infrastructure at the National Institute of Building Sciences in Washington DC. He will set the stage by exploring recent advancement in healthcare infrastructures illustrated by a case study of a well-functioning Healthcare System in the US. In addition Four Sections of speakers and moderators will further explore recent work. 

The base project »Health & Gestaltung« is an instrumental part of  the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. It will be publicly present  for the first time, exploring the results of work done in the past year. The focus of this segment of the conference is to show how various fields of knowledge convene to produce actionable design oriented projects, which could only come about through preceeding theoretical considerations. 

The Conference takes place in the Italian Embassy in Berlin as a reflection of the strategic partnership between the cities of Berlin and Torino, which will officially be announced in Berlin on the occasion of the Conference. The Conference »Health & Gestaltung« forms part of the festivities, that will be formally sealed by a visit of Bundespräsident Gauck to Torino to meet with the Italian President Napolitano on the 11th Dec.14 - one day after the conference, in Torino.

Dignitaries of the City of Torino will be present at the conference. The stategic intention of the collaboration of the two cities is accentuated by additional academic collaborations, here marked by a contribution by Dott. Laura Morgagni of Torino Wireless. 

The intention of centering on the Modern Patient is to enhance the much needed quest for change, suggesting that the patient is also a Homo Urbanus - the main agent of change in the Modern City. That in turn puts the central contribution to a better healthcare infrastructure which is centered on the City. 

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PROGRAM

09.00 OPENING

H. E.Pietro Benassi                                                                                                                                                   
The Italian Ambassador to Germany

Dominik Wehner 
CEO EMEA Fresenius Medical Care

Prof. Dr. Emanuele Gatti
Associate Investigator Health+Design Cluster of Excellence 
Humboldt University Berlin
President ITKAM (Italo-German Chamber of Commerce)                                                                                      

09.30 THEMATIC INTRODUCTION

          Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schäffner                             Prof. Alfred Jacoby    
          Humboldt University Berlin                              Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
          Speaker, Excellence Cluster                              Associate Investigator Health+Design
          Research and the Cluster of Excellence         »Re-Inventing the Patient«
          Image Knwoledge Gestaltung

10.00  SECTION I
           HEALTHCARE INFRASTRUCTURES

           Gunnar Hartmann MA (D)
           Fresenius Fellow HU Berlin
           Homo urbanus: What the City does

           Prof. Dr. Lars Lerup (US)
           Rice Univ. Houston TX
           Associate Member Excellence Cluster 
           Humboldt University Berlin
           Health and Happiness in the 
           Posthuman City

          Keynote Speech:
          Joe Powell (US)
          Institute of Health Infrastructure
          Washington DC
          »Towards a New (US) Health Infrastructure«

11.00  Discussion, Moderator: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schäffner

11.30 SECTION II
          THE ELECTRONIC PATIENT

          Prof. Dr. Lothar Koppers (D)
          Anhalt University Dessau, Health+Design Cluster Humboldt University Berlin
          »Patients in Geo-Space«

          Anna Roethe, MD (D)
          Researcher Excellence Cluster
          Humboldt University Berlin
          »The Patient Record«

          Prof. Alfred Jacoby (D)
          Anhalt University of Applied Sciences,Dessau
          Assoc.Investigator Excellence Cluster Humboldt University Berlin
          »Caring for Artificial Man« 

12.30 Discussion
           Moderator: Gunnar Hartmann

13.00–14.00  BUFFET LUNCH

14.00 SECTION III
           THE CASE OF THE CITY OF TORINO
        
           Dott.Laura Morgagni    
           Torino Wireless
           SMARTCOMMUNITIES An Italian User-Centred Concept
           »Technology as enabler against an Infrastructural & Social divide«

14.30 SECTION IV
          HEALTH & WELL BEING

          Dr. Guido Giordana
          Fresenius Medical Care     
          Possibilities of a New Health   
          »Care Market«

          Prof. Mario del Vecchio
          Bocconi University Milano     
          »Health and Economics in a
          changing Market«

          Julia Jacoby MA
          Akershus University, Oslo    
          »Creating a Health Universe«

          Prof. Dr. Joachim Krausse    
          Anhalt Univ. Dessau
          »The Anthropocene Kitchen«

15.30 Discussion
          Moderator: Prof. Dr. Lars Lerup

16.00.   PANEL DISCUSSION
             Reinventing the Patient
             Moderation:Prof. Alfred Jacoby & Prof. Dr. Emanuele Gatti

16.30   END OF CONFERENCE

The Conference is open to the Public
Conference Language: English with Italian Translation

Partners:
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
Fresenius Medical Care
ITKAM ( Italian - German Chamber of Commerce), Berlin