Spring 2027

Environments of Crisis & Design

Environments of Crisis & Design explores built environments supporting people in disasters, conflicts, and forced migration through a human-centered, trauma-informed design lens.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.43 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.60 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Examine theoretical frameworks in environmental psychology investigating human-environment relations in environments of crisis.

  • Demonstrate familiarity with the breadth of human experiences in crisis situations focusing on the built environment.

  • Describe health and well-being impacts of built environments on people undergoing crisis.

  • Critically evaluate environmental interventions in spaces of crisis to investigate their psycho-social supportiveness.

  • Apply theoretical frameworks in development of research questions within the context of environments of crisis.

  • Critique existing crisis contexts from a human-centered perspective.

Source: UW Guide

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DS 521

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Spring 2027

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.43 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.60 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Psycho-social components and human experiences in built environments during crises.
  • Theoretical frameworks on stress, trauma-informed practices, supportive environments, and restoration.
  • Health and wellbeing impacts of physical spaces in crisis environments.
  • Equity, justice, human rights, and dignity in design and policy interventions.

Skills

  • Examining theoretical frameworks in environmental psychology for human-environment relations in crisis contexts.
  • Critically evaluating design and policy interventions for psycho-social supportiveness, equity, and justice.
  • Developing research questions using theoretical frameworks within environments of crisis.

Grades

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DS 521 · Spring 2027

Environments of Crisis & Design

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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