Spring 2027

Environment and Behavior Studio - Designing Health Promoting Environments

A design studio focused on applying design principles to promote health and wellbeing in the built environment, specifically designing health-promoting environments.

offering recorded4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Zhenhang Cai

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.66 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=32 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.38 GPA, 64.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.82 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=19 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the significant and complex role that open spaces and open space systems play in public health and quality of life.

  • Explain the impact the physical environment has on people and the role designs play in creating healthy places.

  • Collect and analyze relevant data to influence a design concept and approach.

  • Evaluate and apply tools and techniques that are appropriate for development and communication of design decisions.

  • Identify, evaluate, describe, and discuss health problems as they intersect with the physical environment at multiple scales.

  • Apply a design-thinking approach to understand the design process from concept to implementation.

  • Develop and apply creative and critical thinking skills.

  • Promote a collaborative studio environment (reminiscent of practice) that encourages communication, time-management, and peer review.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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LAND ARC 261 and DS 221

LANDARC 321 used by

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Professors

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Calendar & sections

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.66 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=32 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.38 GPA, 64.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.82 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=19 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Open spaces and open space systems in public health and quality of life
  • Health problems intersecting with the physical environment at multiple scales
  • Application of design principles for health and wellbeing in the built environment

Skills

  • Describing the role of open spaces in public health and quality of life
  • Explaining the impact of the physical environment on people and healthy place design
  • Collecting and analyzing data to influence design concepts and approaches
  • Applying a design-thinking approach from concept to implementation

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LANDARC 321 · Spring 2027

Environment and Behavior Studio - Designing Health Promoting Environments

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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