Carolina Kolodziej

Germany

Biography

Carolina Kolodziej is a research associate at the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany. She is working on her Ph.D. with the topic of “Healthcare Design for radiotherapy”. Addressing the complexity of the radiotherapy departments and the various user groups, she aims to develop typologies and planning requirements in correlation to the workflow, by investigating spatial constellations and cluster formations. Her interest in Healthcare Design developed during her master’s studies in architecture at the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar. With her master’s thesis, she took a close look at the structure and workflow in departments of surgery, intensive care, maternity, and neonatal intensive care in German hospitals. As a research associate, she is also involved in teaching at the Chair of Social and Health Care Buildings and Design at Technische Universität Dresden, where she co-established the Student Research Lab “ARCH 4 HEALTH”. With this lab, the educational concept of research-based learning is integrated so that the students are guided through their own small research study that leads to a collective publication.