Jason Danziger presented a new paper, “Soteria Berlin – A Case Study in Active Atmosphere and Inclusive Design” on June 17, 2024 in the afternoon Research and Design Methods session of the ARCH24 Conference in Espoo, Finland at the Aalto University. Written with Dr. Martin Voss , the paper looks broadly at the development of the Soteria movement in general and tracks the development of the two Soteria projects built at the St. Hedwig’s Hospital in Berlin. It also shares ongoing research on design methods based on the sociopetal concepts of late modernist Japanese-Canadian architect Kiyoshi Izumi in combination with 'active atmosphere' mechanisms developed in an ongoing inter-disciplinary process with PSYCH.RAUM Partner Dr. Martin Voss of the Charité Berlin.
With great appreciation to conference chairpersons Professor Laura Arpiainen and Dr. Ira Verma of the Aalto University for encouragment and support, we are proud to announce that the paper has now been published in the 06/2024 issue of the open access Aalto University Publication Series.
Update: December 12, 2025 > The Best Practice Paper has been published and is available here as an extract (from the thinkbuild website) or here (official publication link at Aalto University (Finland), see pages 185–186).
FYI the full citation of the Conference Best Practice Paper is: Verma, I. & Arpiainen, L. (ed.)(2024) ARCH24 Design for Health and Wellbeing – Best practice papers from the 6th International Conference on Architecture, Research, Care and Health 17-19 June 2024, Espoo, Finland. For more Info on the ARCH24 Conference in Espoo, click here.