Move Detroit: An Active Class Space Intervention

According to the National Center for Environmental Health the built environment directly influences a person’s level of physical activity. The Center attributes the absence of particular elements that support the presence of bicycling, walking, and other leisurely physical activities as contributing to sedentary habits, habits that the Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services relates to a range of diseases and aliments including obesity and diabetes. Our collaboration is a direct engagement of this understanding and positions professors in architecture and kinesiology with educators and wellness specialist in determining new trajectories in creating physical challenge through architecture. Our partnership situates an understanding of these findings into domestic and institutional settings, and discusses everything from the furnishings of a single classroom to the civic infrastructure connecting home and school. The primary result of which is an “Active Class Space”that studies educational conditions germane to the greater Detroit Metro.

Volume Editors
Luis Francisco Rico-Gutierrez & Martha Thorne

ISBN
978-1-944214-08-1