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Light4health Elearning Course: Health Research For Interior Lighting Design. Re-Thinking Design Approaches Based On Science, K. M. Zielinska-Dabkowska, Lyn Godley, F. Kyriakidou, U. C. Besenecker, G. Triantafyllidis

Kanbar College Faculty Papers

This paper presents the results of 'Light4Health' (L4H), a three-year EU Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership grant project (2019-2021), which investigated, systematized and taught health-related research on the impact of natural and artificial light on human health and well-being relevant to indoor lighting design. The objective was to re-think evidence-based lighting design approaches for residential, working/educational, and healthcare spaces, in order to develop a novel cross-disciplinary eLearning platform, that intersects lighting design and current peer-reviewed health research through a select combination of the most relevant research, methods, and tools. The content was developed through teaching workshops with international researchers, teachers, and students. …

Hierarchical Quantification Of Utilization Rate And Related Indicators Of Mixed-Use High-Rise Buildings, Yuchen Xie, Peng Du, Jianhe Lu Luo

College of Architecture and the Built Environment Faculty Papers

Mixed-use high-rise buildings are vertical superpositions of various business types in the category of mixed-use development. It has become a highly intensive organizational form in the urban high-density environment. Under China’s “height limit” policy, the simple superposition of business types does not meet the government requirements for planning, construction, and management, and does not fully utilize the advantages of the mixed development mode. The single utilization rate index used in the past could not accurately describe such buildings’ usage value and spatial variation characteristics. In this study, a quantitative analysis of data from eight construction projects was carried out, and …

Thomas Jefferson University Research - A Path To Digital Equity

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

Inside this issue:

04 Editorial

05 Leadership Message

06 Global Jefferson

08 Bursts of Power

09 Antitrust Laws Don’t Hinder Foreign Investment Cancer Prediction Model Misses High-Risk Black Patients

10 Enveloping Buildings in Textiles Learning from Drowsy Flies

12 COVID Briefs

13 Jefferson by the Numbers

14 Inflecting the Narrative on African Studies

16 Journey of Adaptation

18 A Path Towards Digital Equity

24 JeffSolves: A New Way of Thinking

30 The Heart’s "Little Brain"

36 RNA like You’ve Never Seen Before

38 Online Content

Thomas Jefferson University Research - Convergent Thinking, Creative Application

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

One way we accomplish our distinctive programmatic approach to research is by organizing as multidisciplinary centers and institutes around specific challenges. Led by visionaries and staffed by experts, these entities enable us to more quickly move discovery to translation and application; and they are excellent environments for training colleagues and students to address the practical challenges the world presents.

Beauty In The Commonplace

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

In 2020, undergraduate landscape architecture student Benjamin Nardi received a top award from the American Society of Landscape Architecture for his plan to turn a one-acre urban brownfield site into a space filled with native flora and fauna and urban agriculture. His dual goal: responding to the hopes, dreams and concerns of the area’s residents; and connecting them to the land’s watershed roots. “I wanted to give voice to people traditionally without much of a voice. This is their design, not mine,” says Nardi.

Toward Smarter, Healthier Cities

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

“Creating healthy cities is perhaps the great challenge of this century, and the move to smart cities gives us the opportunity to make health a part of every neighborhood, every block,” observes Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA, president of Thomas Jefferson University and CEO of Jefferson Health. “We can now diagnose what's wrong in urban life and find solutions in real time."

The Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities was launched in 2020 to support multidisciplinary research, innovation and education on the transformation of urban environments into more efficient, healthier and livable cities. A collaborative initiative of the College of …

Architecture, Design And Corporate Modernism

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

How have business strategies, modern architecture and urban conditions helped shape American corporations’ ambitious branding goals? Grace Ong Yan, PhD, assistant professor of interior design, addresses that question in her book Building Brands: Corporations and Modern Architecture.

Ong Yan is an architectural historian who explores modernism and how media and the built environment intersect. Earlier in her career, she practiced interior design and architecture with Renzo Piano Building Workshop; Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners and the Gensler New York branding studio. Her book unites her scholarship and design expertise to consider the role of architectural branding in the design of …

Landscape Architect As Community Transformer

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

"One of the hallmarks of cities with high poverty rates like Philadelphia is that children are profoundly disconnected from nature,” notes Kimberlee Douglas, MLandArch, associate professor of landscape architecture and Anton Germishuizen Stantec Term Chair in Landscape Architecture. “My colleagues and I are investigating ways to recreate that connection and then observe the effects on health, community engagement and other key metrics.”

Douglas believes that each landscape project must consider natural systems as well as social, historic and economic frameworks. This approach has driven her award-winning designs for projects such as the Cynwyd Heritage Trail—a rehabilitated brownfield rail corridor in …

Building Better Cities

Thomas Jefferson University Research Magazine

Contemporary cities are, simultaneously, economic powerhouses and wells of extreme poverty; catalysts of efficiency and prodigious consumers of energy; places with excellent health care and unhealthy air. To a significant degree, the future of human society depends on our ability to resolve these contradictions by making cities “smarter”— i.e., healthier and more efficient, sustainable, economically productive and equitable."

Jefferson is applying its deep expertise in architecture, design, planning, material science and public health to a growing, multifaceted program of research on how to create (and recreate) cities as society needs them to be. Here are snapshots of how three faculty …