Course Timeline - F22



week 1 

Topics:
- Overview
- Design Continuum
- Primary Care




What is health, what is design, and how do these come together?

Who has the agency to decide outcomes?

What does this look like? What should it look like?


week 2


Topics:
- Evidence-Based Design


Guest speaker:
Meredith Banasiak


Assignment:
“I went to the doc and...”
How do we measure quality?    

How can you understand an individual’s journey? 

What goals should be defined?




There were bright fluorescent lights above my head, lots of fake plants spread around, and some tacky paintings on the wall..”                  

“It couldn’t be inside the long line of dark windows that made up what I thought was solely an office park, could it?“         

“I even felt a bit claustrophobic inside this cramped space without windows”       

It certainly isn’t a large space, but somehow always feels a bit desolate, even when full.“        


week 3

Topics:
- Architecture & Psychology
- Clinic 20XX


Guest speaker:
Dr. Joy Knoblauch



What does it mean to rediscover typologies of mental health?

How can we think about now, near, and far for desired outcomes? 




week 4

Topics: 
- Clinic 20XX. A Generational Look

How does care vary around the world?

How does your generation determine your views on health?

Assignment: CareBYDesign Around the World - Pechakucha.


week 5

Topics: - Design Thinking 101
- Lego Blocks of Human Experience
- Micro-Environment Design 


Guest speaker:
Mitch Mead

How can design be informed by collected information?

Where do adaptability and flexibility play into design outcomes?


week 6

Topics:
- Cloudprints & Footprints
- VirtualHealth
- Journey Modeling


Guest speaker:
Dr. Deborah Wingler


How do you look at innovation through the lens of satisfaction?

What is journey modeling and how can it be a tool for healthcare design?


week 7

Topics: - Clinic Planning 101.
-The Lego Blocks of Planning


Guest speaker:
Camilla Morretti


How can we consider the physician and patient needs for better design outcomes? 

What is a healthcare module?



week 8

Topics:
- HX Lego Presentation

How can we design care for people who feel they are too busy to access it?

How can we transform vulnerable spaces in health care?


Assignment 3: 
HX Lego Presentation
 






From the feeling of misinformation and exclusion to the feeling of informed and inclusion: can access to technology ease the vulnerability of patients and improve the patient-physician trust and bonding?           

From: waiting periods that elongate primary care visits, and demote well-being. To: productive waiting that promotes efficiency in Telehealth systems.            

From individual health to community health... How can this take place both in the physical and digital realm to bring connection and inform health literacy?      


week 9

Topics:
- Sensthetics
- Brand
- Psycology & Architecture


Guest speaker:
Julia Calabrese
What role should emotion have in design?

How can we convert data into places and processes?

week 10

Topics:
- Digital Health


Guest speaker:
Phi Ho
How can we consider the relationship between the cloudprint and footprint? 

How can healthcare staff be better supported through technology? 

week 11

Topics:
- Primary Care
- EMR and Obesity
- Community Health



Guest speaker:
Dr. Joyce Lee


How can data empower patients in managing their own care?


What other models exist for patient-physician care?

week 12

Topics:
- Mid-term Review 



Guest reviewer:
Tamie Glass
Alison Avendt

How can primary care happen beyond clinic walls?

What does an ecosystem of health interventions look like?