DESIGN RESEARCH 4 HEALTH LAB
DESIGN RESEARCH 4 HEALTH LAB
health, design, community, care
 
 

Our Mission

We design and research healthy Urban spaces through a culture of care.

The interdisciplinary members of the Drexel Design Research for Health Lab (DRDR4HEALTH) develop a series of urban community co-created evidence-based health spaces, home environments, and shelters around Aging in Place, Housing Insecurity, Climate Resiliency, Food Sovereignty, Neurodiversity, and Healthy Environments.

Innovation for Health

We co-create evidence-based design solutions for health that connect people to their care by filling in gaps in the built environment. We create evidence-based, healthy, and resilient urban spaces, places, and processes. Current Projects include an analytical tool for the retrofit of homes for aging-in-place, circular bio-design for aging, and an age-friendly hospital room.

 
 

MCSAP

Mantua

Creative

Standard

for

AGING-IN-PLACE

The main objective of the MCSAP relates to developing supportive interiors through assessment and re-conceptualization. Building on and continuing the community-based participatory approach, the team here uses the scorecard to make suggestions for interiors that support aging residents in active creative endeavors. Through participatory projects in the community and the study of age-friendly principles, age-friendly care and current standards in aging, the design research team developed the Mantua Creative Standard for Aging-in-place (MCSAP), an interiors-focused trauma-informed analytical scorecard with actionable next steps for residents to repair and maintain their urban interior spaces and develop creative space. For more info on the MCSAP and how to work with us please fill in this form

Our Partners

both past and present, include:

  • Second Story Collective

  • American Hospital Association — Age-Friendly Care Action Group

  • Swiss Center for Design and Health AG

  • Penn Medicine Center for Healthcare Transformation and Innovation

  • The Autism Institute

  • The Drexel Writers Room

  • Domestic Violence Centers of Chester County

  • The Alliance of Non-Profit Care Providers Presbyterian Homes

  • Fabric Health

  • Ewing Cole

  • St Christopher’s Hospital

  • IMPACT Services

  • FAIMER

  • DUO

  • Dornsife School of Public Health

  • Agewell Collaboratory

  • People’s Emergency Center

  • Scattergood Foundation

About Culture of Care:

“ Cultures of Care celebrates people that practice collective care in unconventional and insurgent ways. Care is an essential, immediate and practical way to create belonging. Perhaps most vitally in our urgent times, at the heart of each profile you will find provocations that are seeds for reshaping society and how we relate to each other and the world.”

https://belonging.berkeley.edu/cultures-of-care/overview/why