Abstract
This paper describes a studio project in exploring innovative healthcare solutions via the design of a new clinic facility for a community. Collaboratively determined community needs were identified, with an emphasis on the unique local vulnerable neighborhood conditions and previously disenfranchised community in a local city context. This project offers a supportive experiment deploying a broad-based methodology, integrating diverse design results addressing community health and well-being. Design solutions were developed in a collaborative, transdisciplinary framework that harnessed participatory community design, co-disciplinary teams comprised of participants from Interior Architecture, Industrial Design, and community partnership with health-oriented non-profit organizations. Through analyzing prominent challenges in managing the highly complex project with stakeholders’ unique expertise and perspectives, strategies were experimented to synthesize the innovations. The outcomes demonstrate that despite increasingly complicated challenges to community well-being, a broader definition of health enables new abilities for design to successfully respond.
Presenters
Jeff FengAssociate Professor, Industrial Design, University of Houston, Texas, United States Ziad Qureshi
Assistant Professor, College of Architecture and Design, , The University of Houston, Texas, United States
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Participatory design, Interdisciplinary design, Healthcare clinic, Community design
