Approaching Sensory Zoning as a Gateway to Neurodivergent Health within the Built Environment
Lydia Collins
Approaching Sensory Zoning as a Gateway to Neurodivergent Health within the Built Environment
Lydia Collins
LARC 493F/693A
Designing Healthy Places
Professor Wasserman
Dissecting the Ethical Value of Music & Movement: Resonating Understanding and Concern for the Disabled Minority
Introduction
Today, one fundamental concern in the society of music therapy professionals is the lack of value associated with health benefits for disabled parties. Firstly, the word disabled must be properly defined as that which encompasses both deficit that affects social functioning as well as mental and physical state, creating a barrier for success socially and financially.
This paper will dissect the immediate need for acknowledgment of disabled peoples particular health, so that a direct relationship can be seen between overall public health and the need for integration of music into the working class sphere.
This need will be represented by an intensive yet concise overview of primary and secondary research, mostly of current relevance but also inclusive of some late sources for fear of chronological snobbery or lack of thoroughness.
Research will include case studies and articles from prevalent healthcare workers who specialize in the subject of disability in relation to music as well as conversation on the current conception of sensory banks as the origins of evidence based design on this subject. It is my own pre-supposition that there is a need for a radically new approach to work spaces for the integration of disabled persons into society, promoting inclusivity and public welfare -- all through the medium of music and resonation.
Research Aim & Questions
This research will aim to uncover knowledge on the functioning of the disabled mind and body,
but also how that knowledge can inform an environment that caters to them. Lastly, this
conversation aims to understand how the advancement of society without music/sensory therapy
conscious spaces may have a negative impact on the individual. Questions that may be approached are as follows:
1. What specifically about music and overall intangible sensory environment proves beneficial to disabled parties?
2. What qualitative, and quantitative, benefits can be seen from music therapy on the disabled minority?
3. Can the disabled be deemed a minority? And if so, is the term minority not only relevant in its correlation to quantity, but its correlation to lack of services and opportunity despite quantity? (This should be truly observed for the reason of understanding why minorities lack spaces for living, learning, and succeeding!)
4. Lastly, what would an environment that truly facilitates learning of the disabled look or sound like? What is triggering as opposed to helpful?
Conclusion
The results of this research should benefit society as a whole, but will most likely peak the
interest of people who are either struggling with disabilities themselves or know someone who is. In the end, the presentation of this research should change the way everyone views sensory
and spatial needs for disabled people, shaping better worldviews and making better citizens.
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