Landscape Architecture + Occupational Therapy = Design for All

Start Date
10/22/2018
End Date
10/22/2018
Description
Creating environments and products that meet complex societal needs requires more than a single-discipline design approach. With increasing interest in interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaborative design processes, an under-reported, yet important collaborative design approach is melding the unique skill sets of occupational therapy with landscape architecture and engaging the principles of universal design to create environments that best meet the needs of users across the lifespan. Occupational therapy practitioners are well suited to move beyond our typical role of modifying home environments and recommending adaptive equipment, to become involved with the design of outdoor spaces through application of universal design to engender client autonomy, self-efficacy, and control. This novel connection will be explored as the context for Landscape Architecture + Occupational Therapy = Design for All (Ways).
Location
College Station, TX
Distance Learning
No
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Accessibility / ADA
Design-Build
Healthcare & Therapeutic Design
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.0
Learning Outcomes
1. Recognize how nature is necessary in people’s lives and the evidence that supports it.
2. Consider a unique interdisciplinary relationship between, and opportunities for, occupational therapy and landscape architecture through universal design.
3. Think about ways to mainstream connections between occupational therapy and landscape architecture through the application of universal design.
4. Extrapolate the value of these connections to evidence-based practice and research. Explore next steps.
Instructors
Hwanyoung Seo, Charlie Culp, Cecilia Giusti, Manish Dixit, Zofia Rybkowski Geoffrey Booth, and Juan Carlos Baltazar.
Course Codes
LAOT2018
Provider
Texas A&M University at the College of Architecture


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