Health Through Community – A Design Collaboration
Can you realize better health merely as a function of residing in an intentionally designed community? An ambitious collaboration between five unlikely partners in Austin, Texas believes that it’s possible. A university institute, an artist, a children’s museum, a real estate developer, and a multinational healthcare company are engaged in a holistic rethink of the tired, ineffective mechanisms we’ve employed for decades. Utilizing a creative process that combines visual arts, learning and exhibit design, as well as new approaches to data visualization, this collective is behind an effort to raise a community’s health consciousness and literacy, to empower and enable them to act on their own behalf, to develop new insights into the priorities of residents, and ultimately to create offerings that have a marked impact on their collective health.