St Luke's Symposium: Exploring architecture, design and medicine
This year’s St
Luke's Symposium is the biggest yet, running over six days from Monday 13
October to Saturday 18 October 2014. These will be a diverse programme of
events covering a wide range of topics such as health and wellbeing, quality
improvement, medical education, clinical pearls, and the unique history and
heritage of the College.
As part of the symposium RCPI’s Heritage Centre will be running a series of events marking the
150th anniversary of RCPI’s home at 6 Kildare Street.
150 Years on
Kildare Street Heritage Tour – Monday 13th October
Help us celebrate
150 years of RCPI’s home at No 6 Kildare Street by joining our guided tours of
the building.
Tour Times:
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11.00am
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1.15pm
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3.00pm
RCPI’s Design and Ideas Competition
for Architecture Students – Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th
October
To mark the anniversary of 6
Kildare Street, RCPI is holding a design and ideas competition for architecture
students, asking them to re-imagine a new design for our home on Kildare Street
based on the original brief from 1860. Full details of how to enter the
competition are available here.
Student’s entries to the
competition will be on display to the public on Monday 13th and
Tuesday 14th, and the winner will be announced at a reception in 6
Kildare Street at 5pm on Tuesday 14th October.
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1860s accounts between James Beardwood, contractor, and RCPI - sources of conflict!
(RCPI/9/3/9) |
Heritage Centre Lectures; Architecture,
design and medicine – Tuesday 14th October
These lectures will explore the interplay between
medicine and architecture, both today and 150 years ago when the College’s home
at No 6 Kildare Street was built.
Session 1 – 10.00 – 11.30
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Harriet Wheelock,
Keeper of Collections, RCPI - ‘Anything
but gothic’ designing a home for the College of Physicians of Ireland
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Dr Frederick
Dwyer, FRIAI - Medical architecture in
nineteenth century Ireland
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Iain Milne,
Sibbald Librarian Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh - How Royal College buildings learn
Session 2
– 11.45 - 13.15
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Prof John Cole,
Consultant Architect and Specialist in Health Infrastructure Planning - Contemporary
Trends in the Strategic Planning of Healthcare Facilities
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Shelly McNamara,
Grafton Architects – A Vessel for Learning
Limerick Medical School
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Prof Rose-Anne
Kenny, Director Mercer’s Institute for Successful Aging - Mercer’s Institute for Successful Aging at St James’s Hospital
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Laura Magahy,
Director MCO Projects – Service
design in Healthcare planning
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Thomas Grey,
Research Fellow, TrinityHaus - Universal Design as
a Framework for Health and Wellbeing in the Built Environment