IR3016
Child Centric Healing Spaces
Unit Assistant Yash Dodwani
Faculty of Design IR3016 Spring 2021
4 th Year Khushi Jain Karnav Mistry Sakshi Sharma
5 th Year Amishi Talati Jahanvi Panchal Viraj Panchal Vedangi Raval Aditi Shah Tanmayi Deshmukh Isha Shah
Sujit Kothiwale
Neha Kothiwale
The 20th and the 21st century will be marked as the period in history when the world focused on creating child friendly environments. From education to healthcare, we have been striving to build a more empathetic and inclusive society for our children. In the last decade, pediatric healthcare has made giant strides in this direction. This unit focused on sensitizing future designers to the needs of children when they are in a hospital. While maintaining the efficiency and functionality of the facility, solutions that address the mental well-being of the children need to be devised. Access to physical features and social situations that reduce their stress and develop a sense of control over privacy and self-efficacy are critical to healing. In recent years, our approach to pediatric healthcare design has evolved to designing engaging, participatory, social and more child centric environments. This studio aimed to resolve complex issues through a well-defined design process. The students learnt tools and methods to enquire, assimilate, define, ideate and test the key components of a design-based thinking. Healthcare design offers a unique opportunity to coalesce technology, functionality and above all empathy, to build humanitarian designs that touch lives in unique ways.
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