Designing Spaces that Support Health for the Whole Person: A Sensory Processing Perspective of Healthcare Design in Community-Based Settings

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dc.contributor.advisorlastname, firstname
dc.contributor.authorPierce, Molly
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-26T20:52:14Z
dc.date.available2019-06-26T20:52:14Z
dc.date.issued2019-06
dc.description135 pagesen_US
dc.description.abstractThere are many barriers to built environments that affect health, well-being, and accessibility. Interdisciplinary models are informing healthcare design that addresses many of these barriers to support health. This research expands on the best practices using sensory processing model to understand how the key principles of design fit into a sensory assessment to gain greater awareness for the effects on health and well-being from the built environment. There is potential to go beyond just meeting the best practices for building and ADA requirements in order to create beautiful aesthetically designed spaces that are universal, engaging and calming, and support all abilities. Understanding how a space can affect the sensory nervous system by causing anxiety, stress, or being overstimulating can inform design and is the focus of this research. The Sensory Design Assessment Tool was developed to understand how best practices of design and human context fit into a sensory processing model for vision, auditory, tactile/touch, movement/space, and oral/olfactory. By using a sensory processing theory for design, along with the concept of creative placemaking and engaging in arts and health, design for community based settings can be universal, beautiful, and supportive for all users within the community.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/24739
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.subjectEvidence-based healthcare designen_US
dc.subjectInterdisciplinary models of designen_US
dc.subjectSensory processingen_US
dc.subjectMultisensory designen_US
dc.subjectPsychoneuroimmunologyen_US
dc.subjectSalutogenic designen_US
dc.subjectArts and healthcareen_US
dc.subjectCreative placemakingen_US
dc.subjectUniversal designen_US
dc.subjectCommunity health centersen_US
dc.titleDesigning Spaces that Support Health for the Whole Person: A Sensory Processing Perspective of Healthcare Design in Community-Based Settingsen_US
dc.typeTerminal Projecten_US

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