Caleb Lee

Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, Bachelor of Science Architecture
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#HealthbyDesign is fundamentally interrelated in cause and effect. It is nearly impossible to come up with a succinct comprehensive definition of health. Health has been
ossified in western biomedicine as a threshold to be reached. Often in terms of biopower. Thus, the common cartesian definition of health may be how effectively the mind may interface with the body to perform tasks required of it. If your body cannot produce labor in western paradigms,
it is considered unhealthy. So the dualism of health and design is of extreme reified importance here, as what defines human health is the environment it exists within, and designing, at least in terms of architecture, is the intentional manipulation of said environment so that humans may
interface with it differently. In other words, health is defined by the environment, not an objective deterministic definition, and the environment may be manipulated through design in
response to said health.
Health will never have one set definition, but in combination with design, health can be understood contextually as one cog of a fundamental positive feedback loop that goes much
further beyond what is typologized as contemporary health definitions and schema. As cartesian dualisms falter and western biomedicine paradigms expand, health will be both morepragmatically understood and fundamentally change its role in how it defines human experience.

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Feature Project
︎Integrated Morning Console
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