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Dear Esteemed Colleagues and Friends
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the 14th World Congress on Design & Health (WCDH 2025), held in collaboration with the Ministry of Health Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore Institute of Architects, and other esteemed global academic and healthcare institutions. Taking place 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 a healthier society. Under the theme “The Mission for a Salutogenic
Healthy Society in Singapore – Fostering a Healthy Environment for Healthy People,” WCDH 2025 will emphasize the role of design in health and well-being, shifting from a disease-centric healthcare model to a preventive, salutogenic approach that promotes overall wellness. With over 90% of our lives spent indoors, architecture profoundly influences our mental wellbeing, cognitive function, and overall health. Salutogenic design, integrating architecture, psychology, and health sciences, provides an innovative framework to create spaces that enhance quality of life, stimulate positive mood, and foster social wellbeing. As we navigate an ecologically sensitive era, urban planning must prioritize meaningful, manageable, and interconnected spaces that maximize human potential. WCDH 2025 will present a rationalized design philosophy, emphasizing community, environmental sustainability, and holistic health benefits.
Key Themes & Sessions
The WCDH 2025 congress will explore 11 key themes, focusing on how design impacts health and well-being:
• Salutogenic & Hospital Design: Enhancing therapeutic environments through architecture.
• Urban & Environmental Sustainability: Integrating nature and climate resilience in city planning.
• Healthy Aging & Public Spaces: Designing for an aging population and community well-being.
• Workplace & Educational Spaces: Creating health-focused homes, schools, and offices.
• Technology & Policy in Healthcare: Examining AI’s role in hospital design and shaping future health policies.
These sessions, led by global experts and policymakers, will
redefine health-promoting architecture for a better future.
Distinguished Speakers & Participants
We are pleased to welcome the government authority of Singapore, who will deliver the official welcome address on Thursday, October 30. A distinguished lineup of keynote speakers, researchers, architects, health planners, engineers, public health scientists, physicians, and policymakers will present groundbreaking research and practical applications. The congress will culminate in a high-profile panel discussion, where leading scientists and health ministers will collaboratively shape the future of global health policy discussing to explore health policy development from a global perspective, comparing approaches across different cultural and socio-economic contexts. By bringing together ministers from diverse backgrounds, we aim to foster meaningful dialogue and exchange valuable insights on health policy strategies.
Join Us in Singapore – A City of Health & Innovation
WCDH 2025 is a premier platform for collaboration, bringing together visionaries, innovators, and practitioners dedicated to advancing salutogenic design. With a dynamic blend of cutting-edge research presentations, engaging case studies, an interactive trade show, and a rich cultural program, this congress promises an unparalleled experience. We look forward to welcoming you to Singapore, where design and health converge to create a more sustainable and health-focused future.
📅 Save the Date: October 29 – November 2, 2025
📍 Pan Pacific Orchard, Singapore
Invited Keynote Speakers for WCDH 2025
Pan Pacific Orchard Congress venue
Singapore on 29 Oct - 02 Nov 2025
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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
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
Executive General Manager, Infrastructure Planning, Victorian Department of Health, Australia
Vision and Mission
"Healthy Environment - Healthy People"
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