Zeidler-Evans Lecture returns with 2023 speaker Robin Mazumder
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McMaster University’s annual Zeidler-Evans Lecture is back, and this year the event welcomes environmental neuroscientist Robin Mazumder as its lecturer, with moderator Nahlah Ayed, of CBC Radio’s IDEAS.
Registration for the 2023 Zeidler-Evans Architecture of Health Lecture is currently open, with the event scheduled to take place on Monday, Oct. 23, at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Doors open at 6 p.m., with the lecture slated to begin at 6:30 p.m. RSVP by Wednesday, Oct. 18. Seating is limited.
Mazumder, who comes from the Technical University of Berlin in Germany, will discuss innovative approaches to health education “through the design, use and analysis of physical space, with a particular focus on social determinants of health and their connection to space.”
“I will discuss how my own health challenges and clinical experience as an occupational therapist informs my research and what I see ahead for cities, particularly the important role intentional design can play in addressing complex societal issues and ensuring a healthy and equitable urban future,” Mazumder says.
The Zeidler-Evans Lecture series is held in collaboration with McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences and is sponsored by the family of John Evans, the first dean of the university’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, to honour Eberhard Zeidler, the architect of the McMaster University Health Sciences Centre.
“The Faculty of Health Sciences is thankful to the Zeidler and Evans families for the second year of this thought-provoking series,” says Paul O’Byrne, dean and vice-president of McMaster’s Faculty of Health Sciences. “The connection between health care and architecture – when thoughtful design incorporates well-being – cannot be overstated.”
The series held its inaugural lecture in 2022 with lecturer Annmarie Adams, a professor with McGill University. She spotlighted three Canadian health-care settings – including McMaster Health Sciences Centre – and the relationship between Zeidler and Evans.
Every year, the public lecture is given by an expert who specializes in the relationship between architecture, physical space and health.
You can learn more about the lecture series on the Zeidler-Evans Lecture website.
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