EP 102: Designing the Stage for Better Health | Upali Nanda

Learn how an architect is setting the stage for better health by design, the relationship between neuroscience and architecture and design diagnostics. 
Dr. Upali Nanda is Global Practice Director for Research at HKS, a 1500 person international architecture firm. She also teaches as Associate Professor of Practice at the Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning at University of Michigan and serves as the Executive Director for the non-profit Center for Advanced Design Research and Education (CADRE). She is the author of the book “Sensthetics: a crossmodal approach to designing for the senses”. Her widely published research on health and wellbeing, neuroscience and architecture, and outcome-driven design has won numerous awards. In 2015, Dr. Nanda was recognized as one of the top 10 most influential people in Healthcare Design by the Healthcare Design Magazine. In 2018, she was honored by Architectural Record with the Women in Architecture Innovator Award and in 2020 she was featured in the book on 100 women who changed architecture. Her design research is anchored on the art, and the science, of being human. 
Episode mentions and links:
HKS Research
CADRE Research
UM Health BY Design course
Upali on Point of Decision Design
Article: Design Diagnostics
Outcomes examples:
CADRE Living Learning Lab
HKS Generations of Care Tower
Upali’s restaurant suggestion: Roti Wraps at Jiti’s
Follow Upali: Twitter 
Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/102

Learn how an architect is setting the stage for better health by design, the relationship between neuroscience and architecture and design diagnostics. 

Dr. Upali Nanda is Global Practice Director for Research at HKS, a 1500 person international architecture firm. She also teaches as Associate Professor of Practice at the Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning at University of Michigan and serves as the Executive Director for the non-profit Center for Advanced Design Research and Education (CADRE). She is the author of the book “Sensthetics: a crossmodal approach to designing for the senses”. Her widely published research on health and wellbeing, neuroscience and architecture, and outcome-driven design has won numerous awards. In 2015, Dr. Nanda was recognized as one of the top 10 most influential people in Healthcare Design by the Healthcare Design Magazine. In 2018, she was honored by Architectural Record with the Women in Architecture Innovator Award and in 2020 she was featured in the book on 100 women who changed architecture. Her design research is anchored on the art, and the science, of being human. 

Episode mentions and links:

HKS Research

CADRE Research

UM Health BY Design course

Upali on Point of Decision Design

Article: Design Diagnostics

Outcomes examples:

CADRE Living Learning Lab

HKS Generations of Care Tower

Upali’s restaurant suggestion: Roti Wraps at Jiti’s

Follow Upali: Twitter 

Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/102