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World Congress on Design and Health
“I would like to take this opportunity to warmly congratulate you on the renewal of these important and inspiring congresses. Your lifelong dedication to advancing the dialogue between design and health continues to have a profound impact on professionals and institutions around the world. I have personally learned a great deal from past gatherings, and I look forward to another enriching and meaningful experience."
Dr Eytan Wirtheim MD MHA
CEO - Rabin Medical Center- Beilinson & Hasharon hospitals
Invited Keynote Speakers for WCDH 2025
International Academy Awards
Finalist 2025!
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
It is our great pleasure to invite you to the 14th World Congress on Design & Health (WCDH 2025), held in collaboration
with the MOH Holding- MOHH, National University of Singapore, Singapore Institute of Architects, and other leading global
academic and healthcare institutions.
Hosted at the award-winning Pan Pacific Orchard, Singapore, from October 29 to November 2, 2025, this prestigious event
will explore the transformative power of salutogenic architecture in shaping healthier societies.
Under the theme:
“The Mission for a Salutogenic Healthy Society in Singapore – Fostering a Healthy Environment for Healthy People,”
WCDH 2025 will highlight the shift from a disease-centered healthcare model to a preventive, salutogenic approach that
promotes lifelong health and well-being.
Why This Congress Matters
With more than 90% of our lives spent indoors, the built environment profoundly affects our mental health, cognitive
performance, and overall well-being. Salutogenic design—at the intersection of architecture, psychology, and health
sciences—offers an innovative framework to create environments that uplift, inspire, and connect communities.
As we confront ecological and societal challenges, urban planning must prioritize meaningful, manageable, and
interconnected spaces that foster resilience and human potential. WCDH 2025 will present a forward-looking design
philosophy, emphasizing community, sustainability, and holistic health benefits.
Key Themes & Sessions
The congress will feature 11 core themes, including:
• Salutogenic & Hospital Design: Enhancing therapeutic and healing environments.
• Urban & Environmental Sustainability: Integrating nature and climate resilience into cities.
• Healthy Aging & Public Spaces: Designing inclusive, supportive environments for an aging population.
• Neuroscience, Workplaces & Learning Environments: Creating homes, schools, and offices that support cognitive
and emotional health.
• Technology & Health Policy: Exploring AI’s role in healthcare design and future policy frameworks.
These sessions will be led by international experts, innovators, and policymakers, redefining the future of health-promoting
architecture.
Save the Date: October 29 – November 2, 2025
Pan Pacific Orchard, Singapore
Prof. Alan Dilani, PhD Prof. Ray Pentecost
Founder, President
International Academy for Design & Health,
Pan Pacific Orchard Congress venue
Singapore on 29 Oct - 02 Nov 2025
Ecological Design
“The challenge for ecological design is to provide a green context for a healthy society, dealing with built infrastructure that creates clean air, clean water, clean food, and clean land. These principles are intertwined with those of salutogenic design, which support human health in daily life through stimuli of psychosocial supportive design factors.”
Dr Ken Yeang, Ph.D.
Architect, planner and the founder of Ecological Design, The world's leading green skyscraper architect
Salutogenic Design
The Salutogenic Design support the sense of coherence that fostered by people’s ability to comprehend the built environment (Comprehensibility), to be effective in his behavior (Manageability) and to find meaning from the stimuli and exposure from their built environment (Meaningfulness). The high degree of Sense of Coherence supports people in managing stress and promote health and wellebing.
Dr Alan Dilani, Ph.D.
Architect, Public Health Scientist who develop the theory of Salutogenic Design
World Congress on Design and Health
“I would like to take this opportunity to warmly congratulate you on the renewal of these important and inspiring congresses. Your lifelong dedication to advancing the dialogue between design and health continues to have a profound impact on professionals and institutions around the world. I have personally learned a great deal from past gatherings, and I look forward to another enriching and meaningful experience."
Dr Eytan Wirtheim MD MHA
CEO - Rabin Medical Center- Beilinson & Hasharon hospitals
Neurobiological salutogenic mechanisms of architectural beauty
“The salutogenic design with curvy-shaped architecture are able to activate brain centers of the beauty circuit, with impacts on particles such as dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins that can interfere with anxiety, stress, depression. These are precisely the health benefits of salutogenic effects of architectural beauty and its contribution.”
Prof. Enzo Grossi
Medical doctor, scientist,and researcher in the field of Pharmaceutical Medicine, ArtificialIntelligence, Art Culture and Health.
Duties of the Architect
“We are committed to the key illuminations of theoretical neurobiology and expanding the value creation and artistic function of architecture in order to produce the best performing and most optimised salutogenic environments for today’s interconnected world.”
Kristen Whittle, RIBA AIA M. Arch SCI-Arc BA Hons
Studio Kristen Whittle is focused exclusively on the creation of human health and planetary health environments.
Salutogenic design is ‘good design’
It is not only because of its direct applicability to people’s health but because it’s based in research, science and quantifiable evidence. By adopting salutogenic design, advocates for ‘good design’ in government share a common purpose with decision makers. It is precisely from this evidence base that design professionals can rebuild trust in their profession and design more broadly—a worthy intellectual and creative pursuit for the public good.”
Stefano Scalzo
Former Executive General Manager, Infrastructure Planning, Victorian Department of Health, Australia
Vision and Mission
"Healthy Environment - Healthy People"
PARTNERS
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