Author(s): Casey Franklin
In this project, students were tasked to think about how architectural interiors could radically address human health and wellbeing. The term radical has many meanings, including, “believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social, economic, or political change.”¹ The latest UN Report on Sustainable Development Goals notes that for human health and wellbeing, “Deep inequalities and under-resourced systems persist.”² These inequities will remain until radical changes take place. Architecture has at least a passive role in health and wellbeing, with people spending 90% of their time indoors.³ In this project, students in an advanced human factors course were asked to identify impactful far-reaching Radical Problems, to conduct human-centered research for architectural intervention via Radical Questions, and to ideate how architecture can take an active role in human wellbeing via the design of Radical Rooms, spaces that rethink our approach to human health and wellbeing in architectural interiors.
Volume Editors
Reed Kroloff & Francisco J. Rodríguez-Suárez
ISBN
978-1-944214-52-4