‘Building for better health, research & innovation in architecture & urban design for care & health’ is the title of ARCH19 – the 4th Architecture Research Care & Health conference – organised at the NTNU Knowledge Centre of the St Olav Hospital in Trondheim – Norway –   12th until 14th of June 2019.

ARCH19 connects research & innovation to promote collaborative innovation processes in architecture and urban design for care & health. ‘Building for better health’ aims to offer an insight into gained knowledge and research projects that focus on the issues of care, health, architecture and urban design and brings together researchers and practitioners to present findings and exchange gained knowledge according to the following three guiding topics:

1. Health promoting architectural and urban design

2. Housing for people with special needs

3. Architecture for healthcare service organisations

Therefore, NTNU would like to invite you to react to their call for original research papers and ask you to send in your abstract before the 1st of October 2018.

Please visit NTNU website at www.ntnu.edu/arch19 for more information about the call for papers, guiding topics, research approaches and submission procedures.