Rate My Professor Margo Annemans

Annemans' research primarily focuses on care contexts, including acute care, rehabilitation, psychiatry, palliative care, and penal settings, with emphasis on health and well-being, user experience, and inclusive design. She leads several projects, such as 'Humanising the Hospital: Rereading Interior Design and Architectural Concepts, 1960s-1980s, Belgium' (2026-2029), which documents and analyzes historical human-centered hospital designs and their contemporary relevance; 'HABITAT: From co-creation to impact in residential care architecture' (2025-2026); 'Benefitting from the Outdoor Environment: How to design (health)care facilities' in- and outdoor spaces' (2024-2028), exploring design strategies to enhance physical and mental health; and contributions to 'HOME-COSI-1 Holistic care plans' and accessible holiday accommodations research. Her publications include 'Architects’ approaches to healing environment in designing a Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre' (The Design Journal, 2016), 'The role of space in patients’ experience of an emergency department: A qualitative study' (Journal of Emergency Nursing, 2018), 'Drawing the researcher into data: drawing as an analytical tool in qualitative research' (Qualitative Research, 2023), 'Human-building-technology interactions in healthcare environments' (HERD, 2025), and 'Fostering inclusivity in a museum park' (CWUAAT 2025). With over 500 citations on Google Scholar, her work advances design anthropology and evidence-based healthcare architecture. She holds internal mandates including substitute chair of the Bachelor Interior Architecture Examination Committee, member of the Master Interior Architecture Examination Committee, Faculty Research Committee, and Onderwijscommissie Interieurarchitectuur as ondervoorzitter.