This studio course considers complex problems in health and healthcare.Students may work on interdisciplinary industry and research-sponsored projects that consider real, often socially based, situations and how design can encourage some form of behaviour change. This course encourages multiple approaches to design opportunities. These projects may include and combine communication, interaction and industrial design. While projects will be health themed, students will be able to extrapolate design knowledge gained and apply it to complex problems in any field.
Priority is given to COMD, INDD, and INTD students in Years 3 and 4. Students outside of the registration priority group may register/waitlist for this course as of the registration rule release date.
Caylee is the Director of the Health Design Lab at Emily Carr University. The Health Design Lab is a research centre that applies design thinking to healthcare, using human-centred design research methodologies to address complex problems. Caylee’s practice focuses on the application of her interdisciplinary design skillset and experience with generative human-centred research methods to the health and education sectors.
As a designer and healthcare consultant, Caylee was involved in operations and transition planning in major hospital redevelopment projects in the US and Canada. In addition to her design practice, Caylee has been an active educator in the design program at Emily Carr University and is a design-education consultant in elementary schools in BC. Caylee’s Master of Design thesis work explored the integration of design as a pedagogic approach within K-7 classrooms, with a focus on the benefits of design for children with learning differences.
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