Elena Bellini
Research Fellow @Università degli Studi di Firenze
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WORK HISTORY
Research Fellow @Università degli Studi di Firenze
Research: Sensory design for spaces in social and health care facilities for healthy and active ageingPNRR project PE8 AGE-IT “Aging Well in an Aging Society”, Spoke 9 Advanced Gerontechnologies for active and healthy ageing, Task 1.2 Design strategies to improve active/healthy ageing in primary healthcare facilities and healthy neighbourhoodScient. Sup. Nicoletta SetolaAbstract: Defining guidelines and design strategies for the improvement of the physical environment according to an approach that favours the integration of physical, digital and organizational networks to promote the process of healthy and active aging for urban communities and individuals. The research explores the following areas: primary health and social care facilities in the new territorial reform; the public space system of territorial health and social care facilities; the design of sensory spaces, in particular in the applied field of health stress reduction; the integration of spaces and automation technologies for healthy aging.
EDUCATION
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Magistrale in Architettura (biennio)
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Scienze Dell'architettura
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Dottorato in Architettura
Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville
Progetto Socrates Erasmus
SKILLS
ABOUT ELENA BELLINI
Architect, PhD in Architectural Technology. With the doctoral thesis \"ASD: architecturAbility. “Therapeutic” sensory environments to make able. A lifespan project for people with Autism Spectrum Disorders\" won the awards: FUP 2018 and Arch Giovanni Neri Serneri (ed research fellow at the Department of Architecture of the Universty of Florence (DIDA-UNIFI) in the project \"Sensory design for spaces of territorial socio-health structures for healthy and active aging\"- PNRR project PE8 AGE-IT “Aging Well in an Aging Society”.She has contributed to many researches, including:\"Health promoting buildings and healthy neighborhoods. Territorial socio-health structures in the Tuscan health ecosystem\"- PNRR project \"THE-Tuscany Health Ecosystem\"(2023);\"Methods and tools to support healthcare institutions in the definition of the requirements framework and the analysis of design layouts\" for Terni Hospital (2022-23);\"Transformational Change for Birth Environment: Knowledge mobilization for a new architectural paradigm\" for OCAD University Toronto (2021);\"A.I.CARE Art, Identity and Care in public spaces of Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in Florence\"(DIDA-UNIFI)(2018).Adjunct professor since 2019 in Building Systems Design, international i-Cad Architecture course, DIDA-UNIFI.Co-founder, co-CEO, R&D coordinator since 2015 of DU IT, an innovative startup of sensory environments in hospitals, schools, social and healthcare buildings, in Italy and Europe; today DU IT is an engineering company who designs inclusive and sensorial architecture, such as: Humanization Project for the New Children\'s Hsospital of Padua; Co-housing for independent living, day center and sensory rooms for the Turati Foundation Onlus; Campus for Autism for USL Central Tuscany–Empolese Valdarno.She also coordinated for DU IT the Ho2020–RISE project \"MinD - Designing for People with Dementia\"(2016-9) and \"P.I.S.T.A- Sensory-perceptive integrated design approach for birth spaces \"(DIDA-UNIFI, Tuscany South-East health trust board, Grosseto Hospital, Tuscany Region, 2018-20).Member of the Order of Architects of Florence, the TESIS Research Center, the SITdA-Italian Society of Architectural Technology, the CNETO-National Center for Hospital Construction and Technology, and the Italian Society of Hospital Technology.
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