Checkup XR: Revisualizing spaces of care through a multidisciplinary immersion experience

This paper discusses the use of extended realities as a format to support transdisciplinary teaching and learning. This pedagogical experiment, engaged students and faculty from the School of Nursing and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. The two courses taught in parallel focused on the design of healthcare spaces by taking a critical look on their relationship to the caregiver as opposed to the patient. The courses, a combination of residential and remote students, found a common ground and language through the use of extended realities. This paper discusses the methodology and outcome of the use of extended reality in the classroom as a platform for communication and co-creativity for the assessment and re-conceptualization of three spaces that are often part of the healthcare environment. These spaces are: wellness/ break area for the staff,  hospital patient care room and an outpatient exam room.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Teach.2023.11

Volume Editors
Massimo Santanicchia

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978-1-944214-44-9