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And the knowledge that's connected with it is really tacit. That it's not formal in the sense that, that we might think of. The other way we might look at this is what has been mentioned a couple times already, this notion of evidence-based or very explicit kind of knowledge that we somehow look at this as testable and verifiable that it uses much of the kind of scientific method that has been already talked about. Now, the two projects that I'll speak about specifically in relationship to the research is the 2005 Latrobe Fellowship which was actually a project to develop a research model for design through collaboration and a trans-disciplinary, in a trans-disciplinary context. It's about creating evidence for evidence-based design. And it was really based on the assumption that if you brought together the kind of three partners that had ownership to a specific kind of framing of a research question that that would enhance the possibility of reaching outcomes that would be meaningful to all of the constituencies. The three constituents were an architecture firm, Gordon Chong Partners in San Francisco; Kaiser Permanente one of the largest healthcare delivery systems in the United States; and the University of California at Berkeley. And this was obviously done to try to integrate an understanding of these three voices and how you bring this different language from these three voices into a research kind of setting. The project itself is ongoing. We’re officially finished with the project in July. I hate to tell you this, but it's not going to be finished in July. We knew that going in. We're going to have results obviously from the Latrobe by July but we knew it was an ongoing project. There are kind of three pieces to the Latrobe Project. The first is a natural experiment, the natural, what we call the Natural Experiment and it's really looking at room attributes in healthcare settings in relationship to patient outcomes and it's really done because of Kaiser's capacity. We have access to more than 350,000 patient records in 30 different hospitals around specific room attributes that we'll look at. |
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