Dina Battisto
Professor of Architecture
Design for health and wellness; evidence-based health facility design; pre-and post-occupancy evaluations; sustainable design
Email: dbattis@clemson.edu
Built Environment and Health
Faculty and students within this cluster leverage the strengths of Clemson’s reputable Architecture + Health Program and the Center for Health Facility Design and Testing. Building on the success of these programs, research studies often employ interdisciplinary teams and evidence-based design approaches to investigate how healthcare facilities contribute to outcomes such as clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, clinical effectiveness, occupant satisfaction, social equity and the ability to accommodate change. Various research approaches are used throughout the design process, such as pre- and post-occupancy evaluations, simulation-based research and virtual reality/artificial reality applications. Our community of scholars explores critical conversations around ways to create better-designed environments that promote health at all scales, across different geographic contexts, for diverse populations and across multiple building typologies and spaces. We strive to generate practical research that can be applied to forward-thinking practices and global movements interested in creating knowledge that improves human, community and planetary health.
Examples of research topics:
- Health Facility Design and Testing
- Evidence-based healthcare design
- Design for health and wellness
- Healthy communities
- Pre- and Post-Occupancy Evaluations
- Design for mental health
- Design for special populations
- VR/AR applications in healthcare design
- Environment and behavior studies
Point of Contact
Dina Battisto, Ph.D.
Professor and Co-Director of the Ph.D. in Design and the Built Environment
Email: dbattis@clemson.edu
Office: Lee 2-138
or
Anjali Joseph, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing
Email: anjalij@clemson.edu
Office: Lee 2-141
Core Faculty
Dina Battisto
Vincent Blouin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Architecture
Sustainability and high-performance buildings; Systems integration; Design and optimization; Multi-physics numerical simulation; material science
Email: vblouin@clemson.edu
Lyndsey Deaton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Architecture
Spatial Equity and Health; Urban Design and Public Space; Dispossession, Displacement & Gentrification; Women and Children’s Environments; Participatory Design & Action Research
Email: ldeaton@clemson.edu
Anjali Joseph, Ph.D., EDAC
Director, Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing; Professor of Architecture
Evidence-based health facility design; Design for safety; Simulation-based evaluation; VR/AR applications in healthcare design; Design for mental health
Email: anjalij@clemson.edu
Winifred Elysse Newman, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies
Space perception and adaptive architecture; Ecological psychology; Neuroaesthetics; Neuroscience; Data visualization
Email: elyssen@clemson.edu
Hyejung Chang, MLA, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Environmental Ethics; Landscape Aesthetics; Typology and Phenomenology in Theory and Design
Email: hyejunc@clemson.edu
Mary G. Padua, Ph.D., ASLA, CLARB, RLA
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Adaptive strategies; the meaning and cultivation of place; Modernity in Asia; social theory and cultural phenomenon; Human-centered design; Health and well-being/Salutengenic design and immersive polysensory outdoor restorative environments; Technology (blue-green infrastructure, big data, data analytics, evaluation research) in landscape architecture
Email: mgpadua@clemson.edu
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