Designing Healthy Communities Seminar
A seminar on sustainable community planning and design principles that promote human health and wellbeing by improving the quality of the physical environment.
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
Think critically about the impact the physical environment has on people and the role environmental designers play in creating healthy places.
Identify and summarize relevant literature by noted authors in the field and encourage them to seek further knowledge by exploring research, precedents and best-case scenarios.
Demonstrate knowledge about health problems that intersect with the physical environment.
Integrate environment-health performance standards and metrics and their functional value in design programming.
Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of active living in the built environment.
Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of health promotion through planning and design of public open space.
Source: UW Guide
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Sustainable community planning and design principles aimed at promoting human health and wellbeing as it relates to the quality of the physical environment. Special topics include access to settings that promote physical activity, social interaction and mental restoration; walk- and bikeability; access healthy food, complete streets, place-making, and biophilic design, active living assessment tools, and architectural sustainability certification systems focusing on the health benefits of good community design.
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Topics
- Access to settings for physical activity, social interaction, and mental restoration; walkability, bikeability, healthy food access, complete streets, place-making, and biophilic design.
- Active living assessment tools and architectural sustainability certification systems focused on the health benefits of good community design.
- Social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainability challenges related to active living in the built environment.
Skills
- Critical thinking about the impact of the physical environment on people and the role of environmental designers in creating healthy places.
- Identifying and summarizing relevant literature, research, precedents, and best-case scenarios in the field.
- Integrating environment-health performance standards and metrics into design programming.
- Applying sustainability principles and frameworks to health promotion through planning and design of public open space.
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