Multi-Sensory Design as a Health Resource: Customizable, Individualized, and Stress-Regulating Spaces

Ute Ziegler holds a Magistra Artium in Art History. She is a curator and an art critic. In the 1990s, she managed an architecture office and a furniture company in Berlin. Currently, she conducts research in design, theory and practice: research through design. Since 2011, Ute has been working on her PhD Thesis, Multisensorisches Design als Gesundheitsressource – Individualisierbare und Stressregulierende Räume Ein systemischer Designansatz, der Design mit Medizin und Neurowissenschaften verbindet. As a reseacher at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland, her interests include design and medicine, design and health, system theory, and participatory processes.