Theme: Design for Wellbeing and Resilience
Time: 9:30 AM ~ 6 PM, April 14 (Thur), 2022
Location: Upper and Lower Rosendin and Lindhurst Gallery, Watt Hall
When compared to other man-made infrastructures, buildings have a huge effect on many of our social, cultural, and physiological conditions. Architecture is a symbioses object that is integrated with socially conscious systems and sophisticated principle to promote the harmonious balance between physical, psychological, cognitive and spritual wellbeing while regenerating the natural environment, and cultural and social justice. In addtion, the COVID-19 pandemic has naturally prompted all organizations to prioritize their most valuable asset, their people, while maximizing efforts to improve people’s physical and psychological health, wellbeing, and quality of life, as well as their cultural and emotional enhancement in the architectural context.
On April 14, 2022, the third annual USC School of Architecture (USCA) Research Symposium will provide an opportunity for architects, artists, community organizers, landscape architects, designers, technologists, planners, historians, and critics to share innovative solutions that advance human wellness, and environmental and social resilience in the built environment.
In a time when pedagogical and disciplinary boundaries are disappearing and merging, we invite participants from diverse backgrounds to build a meaningful dialogue about intellectual and design efforts that address some of the most significant design and its principle. Exploring Methodologies, Pedagogies, and Practice, USC Architecture invites proposals for presentations about integrative research, practice, and curricula that explore the symbiosis relationship between human and building/design to enhance wellbeing, design (justice), and wellness as well as design integrated approaches in architecture.
USCA is committed to supporting innovative and robust research and creative work in areas of emergent architectural design, landscape, ecology, resiliency, and building technologies. With participation from a diverse and talented faculty and student body, the USCA research symposium provides a meaningful opportunity to enrich the research culture within the school and to contribute to the development of research and creative work platforms that enhance collaborative endeavors between programs, disciplines, and practices.
USCA welcomes presentation proposals from faculty, students, external collaborators, and industry partners from all of our disciplines for one or more of the sessions below:
Design: Creative and novel design that support health and wellbeing for people’s physiological, emotional, and psychological effects in various scales of the environment
Context: Well-being can be linked to all aspects of the built environment, extending beyond the categories of design and technology. How do buildings and sites foster well-being? How can we understand the future of well-being through the precedents of the past? What role does history and culture play in our understanding of well-being linked to place?
Technology: Creative technical approach towards how to enhance the building occupants’ environmental comfort, health and work productivity as well as the surrounding environment without compromising individuals’ environmental needs.
Unsolicited: Any creative and innovative work that has limitedly impressed in the architecture domain
For further information or inquiry, please email Kay Chang (kaychang@usc.edu).
