Health and Design Studio

Catalog description

This is a Health and Design Studio, ARCH 701C, in the Master of Science in Health and Design program. This studio focuses on the design and prototyping innovative configurations and material assemblages of spaces for health and wellness. This studio is supported by clinical professionals and design consultants from other Schools and Colleges in NYIT, other academic partners in the New York City region, and industry collaborators with specific expertise to join the studio. Benefiting from introductory lab workshops on alternative approaches to materiality, multidisciplinary design, computational and technological augmentation, students acquire transformative skills for a series of experimental design products at many scales in this studio. Knowledge gained in core seminars is to be folded into the methodologies and products developed in this semester. Informed by a complex set of briefing agencies to prototype spaces, design work in this studio will be generated in relation to dynamic environmental qualities at various scales. This design studio is concerned with how spaces should be more responsive in regards to users with special abillities, and confronting practices with biases for standard, normative body types, and improving the capacity for mobility and access. The outcomes of this studio include a series of various scale design products, as ergonomic and kinesiologic formations, leading to spatial networks, and ultimately, configured as inclusive design.