GUEST PROFESSORSHIP
ARCHITECTURE & PSYCHOLOGY

01.05.2013
After an intensive selection procedure Dr. Tanja C. Vollmer and Gemma Koppen as well as Prof. Dr. Riklef Rambow are nominated for the guest-professorship at the Architecture Faculty of the RWTH Aachen, Germany.
THE COURT
MOVIE

05.02.2013 A moving documentary with Angelina Jolie
Shooting Location: International Criminal Court, The Hague
Architect: Gemma Koppen
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PLACEBO ARCHITECTURE
LECTURE
06.12.2012
Tanja Vollmer is invited speaker at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, together with Charles Jencks, Ellen van Loon of OMA office. Moderation Tracy Metz
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HOW GREY WILL IT GET?
LECTURE
01.10.2012
Gemma Koppen lectures at FASadE Amersfoort on the history of care& cure.
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APPROACH & EXPERIENCE IN CARE LECTURE

18.06.2012
Gemma Koppen lectures at EGM Architects, Dordrecht. Other lecture by Planetree director NL, Marita Bossers
HONG KONG CONFERENCE
NURSING & CANCER CARE

23.09.2011
Kopvol is invited to speak about the evidence of a supportive working environment
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MAGAZINE ZIEN
OUT OF THE BOX

01.05.2011
The perception-centered architecture and advice of kopvol – an interview for the Netherlands Ministry of Financial Affairs
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SCALE MATTERS
INDESEM JURY

26.04.2013
kopvol is invited jury member at Indesem's 50iest birthday and Scale Matters Jury. Other jury members are Herman Hertzberger, Marc Pimlott, Patrick Healy and Marc Koehler
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DISTRACTION&MOVEMENT
WORKSHOP
04.04.2013
kopvol is invited to give a workshop of their ABO-concept at the Interior Design Department of the School of Fine Arts Utrecht
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OPTIMAL HEALING ENVIRONMENTS
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
28.11.2012
OHE symposium organized by kopvol in cooperation with the Samueli Institute, USA and the Netherlands Architecture Fund. The symposium will be held in Lantaren venster, Rotterdam NL
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HEDY D'ANCONA AWARD '12
ARTICLE: HEALING ENVIRONMENTS: FROM AMBITION TO EXECUTION
01.06.2012
It is an illusion to include the term Healing Environment in the vision documents and to hope for that it will happen by itself.
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KIZ MAGAZINE
THE OPPO BUILDING
kopvol writes an article on the role of architecture within corporate social responsible design in health-care
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NATIONAAL KINDER ONCOLOGISCH CENTRUM
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

The architecture of the first center of excellence in childhood cancer in the Netherlands will be based on design criteria which have the potential to support child development
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ARCHITECTURE AS 2nd BODY
PUBLICATION
20.04.2010
In what kind of building do cancer patients want to be treated? Read more in the Layout_11 issue of the Netherlands Journal for Research by Design.
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PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND ARCHITECTURE
CREATING HEALING ENVIRONMENTS

18.043.2013
Tanja Vollmer lectures at TU Delft Architecture Faculty on Creating Healing Environments in Explore Lab
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PRINSES MAXIMA CENTRE
PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY

01.01.2013
Kopvol develops the design criteria for the building design of the Prinses Maxima Centre for Pediatric Oncology
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NEW OFFICE 'DE FABRIEK'
01.12.2013
Kopvol moves to a new office at the riverfront of Delfshaven, Rotterdam
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PERSPECTIEVEN OP MVO.NL
BOOK LAUNCH


17.07.2012
"The crisis of a group always starts with the crisis of the individual; or ends with her!" In this article kopvol pleads for individual withdrawal spaces in megacities.
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01.01.2012
Kopvol is rewarded 'best practice' by the Dutch architecture Fund out of 66 'research by design' projects of the past 3 years.
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NKOC-OUDER KIND EENHEID
OKE_A NEW PATIENT ROOM TYPOLOGY
08.06.2012
kopvol's new typology for the patient room of the Dutch Children Oncology Centre is implemented in the structural design of the NKOC. The OKE- room is an optimized patient
room in which complete privacy for parent
and child can be realized as well as a
social- supporting (family) life.

VOKK DAG
SYMPOSIUM 'IN BEWEGING'
05.11.2011
Kopvol presents design criteria for the Netherland Childhood Cancercentre of excellence

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BOOOSTING
HUMANDRIVEN HEALTHCARE
13.10.2011
Gemma Koppen gives the counter-lecture on healing environments at the new Jeroen Bosch hospital, 'S Hertogenbosch
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CSR ACADEMY, ROTTERDAM
NEW WORK
Kopvol consults about social responsibility in corporate architecture

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