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Built environment as interface: a relation-based framework for the intersections between built, biotic, social, and health processes during COVID-19 and beyond

Interdisciplinary Studies

Built environment as interface: a relation-based framework for the intersections between built, biotic, social, and health processes during COVID-19 and beyond

H. Howland and V. Keyser

This research, conducted by Hannah Howland and Vadim Keyser, investigates the critical interconnections between the built environment, social dynamics, and public health amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. It reveals significant shortcomings in the representation of these factors in public health data and modeling, proposing a new framework to visualize and understand these complex relationships.

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Abstract
This paper explores the interconnections between built, social, biotic, and health processes, focusing on the built environment's moderating roles. It diagnoses failures in COVID-19 representational infrastructure and practice in accounting for built environment and social process impacts on public health. Three problems with scientific representation in COVID-19 modeling and data-gathering are presented: missing data, idealized measurement outcomes, and shallow surrogate measures. The paper then proposes a relation-based framework, utilizing concepts like 'context', 'nudge', 'affordance', and 'interface', to represent the built environment not as discrete variables but as an interface reorganizing causal landscapes. It emphasizes visualizing this interface in multidimensional form and highlights the importance of community participation in representation.
Publisher
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Published On
Jun 30, 2023
Authors
Hannah Howland, Vadim Keyser
Tags
built environment
public health
COVID-19
data representation
community participation
social processes
multidimensional framework

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