Possanner Colloquium am 10. Jänner 2017, 18.00

Liebe KollegInnen und Interessierte,

erstmals lädt das „Gabriele Possanner Institut für interdisziplinäre Forschung“ zu einer Projektpräsentation mit nachfolgendem Gespräch im informellen Rahmen ein.

Als interdisziplinär orientierter, wissenschaftlicher Verein möchten wir WissenschafterInnen die Möglichkeit geben, laufende Forschungen und Recherchen vorzustellen und zu diskutieren. Ein besonderes Anliegen ist es uns hierbei KollegInnen, die sich zu Recherchen in Wien aufhalten, ein gastfreundliches Umfeld zu bieten, indem wir uns darum bemühen, sie mit „ortskundigen“ KollegInnen und Interessierten bekannt zu machen. Hinweise z.B. auf relevante Quellen sowie fachliche Anregungen sind sehr willkommen.

Am 10.Jänner 2018, 18.00 begrüßen wir Dr. Kathryn Schoefert (King’s College London/ Univ. Cambridge) die zu Archivrecherchen für das Projekt  „Excising Infection in the Surgical Environment [ExISE]“ Wien besucht und über ihre Ergebnisse, sowie das Projekt an sich berichten wird.

Ort: stable gallery im Palais Brambilla, Franz Jospehs-Kai 43, 1010 Wien

Abstract:

Excising Infection in the Surgical Environment [ExISE], a longer history of operating theatre design

ExISE pilots the evidence-based reinvention of the physical environment in which surgery is practised, the operating theatre. It aims to eliminate airborne acquired surgical site infections.

At present, operating theatre design is dominated by practices and theories of airborne transmission developed after the Second World War, which are not wholly proven. ExISE explores alternative approaches, investigating the longer history of operating theatre design. Drawing from existing scholarship it examines evidence of environmental intent, designers‘ beliefs, and patrons‘ theories to enable meaningful reconstructions. The operating theatres of late 19th- and early-20th-century Vienna are key examples under consideration.

In the coming phases the ExISE team will interrogate and test historic operating theatres and contemporary ‚Ultraclean‘ operating theatres with analogue and theoretical models. To understand being in and working in operating theatres it will, moreover, visit and interview surgical teams. We will translate these insights into a meaningful critique of the contemporary design of operating theatres.

ExISE is a collaboration between specialists in architecture, environmental engineering, clinical practice, infectious diseases, microbiology, history of medicine, history of art at the University of Cambridge, King’s College London, University of Leeds, and the University of Vienna, in partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons and other stakeholders. The project has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Biography:

Trained as an architect, Kathryn Schoefert is postdoctoral researcher in the history of medicine at King’s College London and an ExISE collaborator. Other research projects focus on the relationship between the brain sciences and clinical medicine in the mid-20th century, also subject of her doctoral thesis (University of Cambridge, 2015).

Hier finden Sie weitere Informationen über das Projekt „ExISE