Master of Interior Architecture Sandberg Instituut
Insight Series #2 A Haptic Future
Insight Series #2 A Haptic Future
Introduction
Insight Series #2 A Haptic Future A Haptic Future Henri Snel Tutor and Head of the Master Interior Architecture, June 2012
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During his stay in Paramaribo, Suriname, Henri Snel became acquainted with the Wiesje foundation. This came about through research he undertook in Paramaribo together with students from the Nola Hatterman Institute during the months of November and December 2011. The study was about ‘haptic perception in relation to the elderly’. Henri Snel is an architect who is researching the subject of ‘Alzheimer and Architecture’ and he is Head of the Interior Architecture Master’s program at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. The conversations that took place during a visit to the foundation’s day-care facilities for elderly with dementia in Paramaribo, following the investigation into haptic observations and