AUT 2022: L ARCH 498 – THERAPEUTIC DESIGN FOR HUMAN HEALTH: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR
Course 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.
This course is open to non-majors and meets on Wednesdays from 6:00 PM – 8:50 PM.
