Multidisciplinary Design

Catalog description

This course ARCH 752, does investigate the care framework, from structure to process to outcome. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a powerful test of resiliency of our social, public health and governance systems. The future will continue to present compounding challenges for our unprepared and inefficient healthcare systems with natural disasters, an escalating baby-boomer retirement population and a diminishing clinical workforce. This course and its modules utilize design thinking methodologies with a systems and technology approach to enable non-design and design disciplines alike, working together, acquire the expertise and tools for the development of innovative and reliable healthcare ecosystem solutions, products, services, and environments. The skill building approach is considering a growing demand in the workforce of the health spectrum from professional development for health practitioners in addition to opening up new pathways to the health fields with stackable credentials and degree programs. The lab will also introduce principles and practices of collaborative design, across design and health, including clinical providers and designers, and other disciplinary arenas. Experimenting on a co-design mode of crossing disciplinary practices will be built into the ethos of the teaching, with a goal to achieve design solutions, made possible by multiple contributors with diverse disciplinary expertise. In a series of intensive lecture and lab sessions, this workshop will provide readings and resources with additional opportunity to deepen knowledge. An abundance of expert guidance and hands-on material will provide learners with useful context and detail to support interactive discussions. The reading materials will include strategic books, peer review papers, chapters, scientific meeting proceedings.