About
UV references our approach to surface mapping.
XYZ references the coordinate system of digital constructs where our work exists.
YZi is an ode of respect to the combination of her mother and Zi the artist. A reflection on respect, honoring the strength and compassion of her family heritage, and the women before her.
Together, UVXYZi is a design-research consultancy driven by protocols that service inclusive design agendas. We focus on mapping physical awareness, conflicts, and tolerance for error in conditions that serve public activities. Our work interests are in analyzing the visual and spatial interactions of people with images, objects, elements, and in the loose definition of rooms to study the readability of encounters that form along transitions in activity.
UVXYZi focuses on understanding how the design of environments affects its use in promoting wellness or preventing illness and how this difference influences communities' social and economic behavior. We incorporate research methodologies based on Mutal Exclusive and Collective Exhaustive comparisons to address these questions. These include direct and indirect, continuity and discontinuity, and determinate and indeterminate examples. In addition, we investigate through design, testing whether objects or spaces can achieve specific criteria, merging the two to mediate the built and the perceived understanding of Equitable Health Space.
A principal charge in our work is how visual thinking, observation, and assessment of readability reinforce personal confidence with the environment for both public and personal space. We are concerned with using design to resolve the conflicts that are hazardous to equitable public health and investing in an optimistically healthy built environment.