Design for Health: Advancing Built Environment Performance through Equitable, Resilient, Safe…

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This course aims to explore the fundamentals of design for well-being through a holistic and transdisciplinary approach. It will emphasize the critical role of integrated design in creating healthy, high-performing, equitable, and resilient environments. Throughout the semester, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of performance-based systems for assessing, certifying, and monitoring built environment features that impact human health and safety, such as the WELL Building Standard®. The course will also foster collaborative research skills and learning networks, engaging with community and industry partners, governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as both for-profit and non-profit agencies.