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Coming into the new school year, our department still has seats available in some great interdisciplinary seminars we are offering - please forward to your students as you see fit. Our instructors truly enjoy hosting students from a variety of backgrounds!
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L ARCH 498A Therapeutic Design for Human Health - An Interdisciplinary Seminar
Autumn 2022 | Wed 6 - 8:50 pm | Gould 440 | 3 credits
SLN: 17226
Instructor: Amy Wagenfeld, PhD, OTR/L, SCEM, EDAC, FAOTA
What if design was approached with a commitment to human health and wellness focused on the user and wellbeing? Designers, planners, healthcare, and public and population health practitioners each have their own unique perspectives and each typically practice siloed from the others. Reported rates of collaboration between these groups is low, while potential to design for health and wellness is high, particularly as we navigate through the pressing issues of social and health inequities. By expanding awareness and creating opportunities to collaborate, this paradigm can change. As with most interprofessional collaboration, the respective professions profit; however, in the case of therapeutic design there is synergy and an even greater beneficiary: the end-user. This interdisciplinary seminar is timely and will provide students opportunities to learn about and engage in a conceptual collaborative therapeutic design project.
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L ARCH 498D Interdisciplinary frameworks for health, ecology and the built environment
Autumn 2022 | Tu/Th 6 - 7:20 pm | Gould 440 | 3 credits
L ARCH 498D: SLN 23380 | GH 490A: SLN 23381 | GH 590C: SLN 23382
Instructors: Coco Alarcon, Rebecca Bachman
Open to graduate and undergraduate students from any discipline
What is the built environment? What is ecology? What is public health? What frameworks stem from these field, and how have they been integrated to take critical, holistic approaches to complex problems facing our world? This seminar explores frameworks stemming from disciples of the built environment, ecology, and public health/global health and the ways that they have been integrated throughout history. Students are familiarized with practical applications of interdisciplinary frameworks through exposure to current projects of researchers and professionals.
Course learning objectives include:
To understand contemporary definitions of health, ecology, and the built environment
To identify holistic framework and components
To understand implementation and application of holistic frameworks in academia, research and professional practice
Contact: Coco Alarcon - cocoa84@uw,edu; Rebecca bachman - rbachman@uw.edu
