HEALTHIAIR
In Fall 2016, an interdisciplinary team of undergraduate and graduate students at the Center for Social Design at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) collaborated with Baltimore City Health Department’s Tobacco Free Baltimore initiative to address the impact of smoke exposure in the home.
Utilizing a human-centered, collaborative and design-driven approach, the team met with public health professionals to better understand the problem, interviewed families to gain new insights, and facilitated design workshops to generate ideas and prototypes. The research and brainstorming resulted in HealthiAir, a pop-up event that supports families in creating smoke-free comfort zones in their homes, identifying practical ways to get started, and connecting to the resources they need.
HealthiAir was launched by the BCHD in January of 2018 and won a Core77 Design Award (2018).
Designers: Smile Indias, Denise Brown, Naeemee Mohammadi, Christy Tang, Mihoshi Fukushima, Jenny Jung, Amanda Buck, and Hayley Frazier
//social design, branding, and print layout
In Baltimore, 50 percent of middle schoolers live with a smoker. Utilizing a human-centered, collaborative and design-driven approach, the team met with health professionals to better understand of the problem, interviewed families to gain new insights, and facilitated design workshops to generate ideas and prototypes. The research and brainstorming resulted in HealthiAir, a pop-up event that supports families in creating smoke-free comfort zones in their homes, identifying practical ways to get started, and connecting to the resources they need.
