Publications

Beyond Health Capacity: Spatial Practices in Inclusive Design sheds light on the systemic challenges communities with limited access to medical support and health maintenance have endured. It emphasizes how approaching medical interventions through non-traditional health facilities can positively impact health's social and environmental impact. Health capacity is an emerging consideration for optimizing a building design to meet health criteria based on physical, virtual, historical, or social space. These emerging practices can be focused on by interrogating the role of planning, construction, and urban design in addressing public health needs, alongside considering access and social justice as an agency in design. This book reflects on past and present efforts interrogating the practical application of inclusive design practices in resolving the spatial challenges of health reform.

Featured Chapters:

Inclusive Design
by Ulysses Sean Vance

Available Environments
by Ulysses Sean Vance

Accommodating Affordances
by Ulysses Sean Vance

Appropriate Engagements
by Ulysses Sean Vance

A Percent for Health
by Ulysses Sean Vance

Informal Health
by Ulysses Sean Vance

Conclusive Enfranchisement
by Ulysses Sean Vance

Appendix: Affordance Studies
by Ulysses Sean Vance

In The Pandemic Effect, 90 leading architects, designers, materials scientists, and health officials reflect on the influence of COVID-19 on buildings and cities—and propose solutions to safeguard the built environment from future pandemics, viruses, and contagious diseases on every scale, from surfaces to society.

Safety and sustainability in buildings and cities have taken on new meaning during the COVID -19 pandemic. Buildings became magnifiers of contagion instead of shelters for protection. In this essential resource for both practitioners and students of architecture, interior design, and urban design, 90 of the world’s leading experts investigate a variety of approaches to future-proof architecture and buildings against widespread disease.

Featured Chapters:

Samaritan Services
by Ulysses Sean Vance

Inside OUT: Human Health and the Air-Conditioning Era focuses on the enclosed environment of fully conditioned buildings, revealing a unique ecosystem with broad implications for human life and a rapidly expanding global footprint. Emphasizing the interconnections between buildings and human health, equity, and environmental sustainability, it presents an interdisciplinary, holistic analysis of the social, behavioral, and technological issues of indoor space.

Featured Chapters:

Respiratory Equity
by Ulysses Sean Vance

Show it, Know it: Animals focuses on the ability to translate ideas across languages as one of the most critical aspects of creating social equilibrium that benefits society as a whole. The book makes language readily accessible by building on the visual aspect of Chinese characters, which dates back to their original ideographic roots.

Authored and illustrated
by Ziui Chen Vance

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