Experiential Design
Experiential Design – Rethinking relations between people, objects and environments 2020
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About Experiential Design
The conference is premised on the argument that artists and designers need to understand the insights of educators, psychologists, health professionals and diverse user groups to design well. These things they design may be the classrooms in which we educate our children; the interiors we inhabit most of our lives; the health spaces we design for the ill; the interfaces of our apps; the products we use in the home; the furniture in the streets we walk along; the buildings we envisage and construct. To do this properly, interdisciplinary understandings are essential. Organizers: Florida State University, Routledge, UCL Press, AMPS
Topics
Design, Design thinking, Furniture, Industrial design, Occupational therapy, Product design, Video game development and production, Learning psychology, Healthy cities, Architecture, Healthy buildings,, Interior design, • environmental occupational health issues, Environmental psychology, PedagogyCall for Papers
Experiential Design – Rethinking relations between people, objects and environments
The World Institute of Psychology identifies multiple links between mood, behavior and learning, and the objects and spaces we interact with and occupy daily. The World Health Organizationconsiders questions like the global increase in dementia as issues that can be tackled, in part, through design. The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research underlines how environments can actively exclude whole sections of society by design itself. The Effective Learning Environments initiative of the OECD aims to improve learning environments for the 21st century.
At the same time, the Industrial Designers Society of America sees product design in the light of inclusivity for people of all abilities, geographies and cultures and the US Department of Arts and Culture argues art has a three-fold role to play in nurturing a culture of health: prevention, advocacy and treatment. The American Institute of Architects lists user experience and inclusivity as essential components of design education and thinking, while the Interior Design Educators Council highlights ‘human orientated design’ as essential to good practice in all fields, whether that be the design of schools, classrooms, health spaces, retail, offices or the home.
In this now well intricate and integrated context, this conference offers a unique invitation to engage in cross disciplinary discourse around the role of people, objects and environments and how our individual practices and professions are, in reality, inseparable from each other. It is interested in perspectives from a whole range of fields, including:
Interiors | Products | Education | Psychology | Health | Furniture | Wellbeing | Art | Architecture | Universal Design | Urbanism | Landscape | Occupational Therapy
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