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Designing with Dignity: Social determinants of health and design research
The Design journal, v 20(1), pp S2238-S2246
28 Jul 2017
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Abstract
The human residential city environment is the site of our future health as a race, and how the inequities in this environment play out across cultures and countries will be the focus of our next century of design. Many in the urban environment do not have access to adequate housing, or security in their housing situation. The emotional stress of housing insecurity leads to harsh effects on health such as high blood pressure and diabetes. (Bennet et. al, 2009) Design research and evidence-based design are both significant processes in an increasingly urbanized vision of future design. (Furjan, 2007) A novel course, Designing with Dignity examines how design and health research informs problem-solving for such underserved communities. The process created a new informed design process based on social determinants of health, which drive forward the consideration of the residential condition health and access, in the urban environment. The course is particularly concerned with underserved groups who may be suffering poor health outcomes due to their lack of access to safe and healthy living spaces. This article will examine how design research, trans-disciplinary design and human-centered concerns are applied to novel thinking about access to a home for underserved groups in service to future design and health speculation. Context and existing processes in both health and design will be considered to posit new frameworks in multi-disciplinary collaboration to drive informed health design in the built environment for the future.
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- Title
- Designing with Dignity: Social determinants of health and design research
- Creators
- Diana Nicholas - Drexel UniversityKiera Townsend - Drexel UniversityYvonne Michael - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- The Design journal, v 20(1), pp S2238-S2246
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Architecture, Design, and Urbanism
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000419738000184
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85089778240
- Other Identifier
- 991019169633004721
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