Digital and physical tools that promote health, healing, and wellness
Welcome to our Wellness Spaces exhibit!
There are lots of different ways to take care of ourselves, like exercising and talking with friends. We call these different ways the "eight dimensions of wellness."
We have created this temporary installation to highlight one of these dimensions, environmental wellness, to illustrate how our living spaces affect our well-being and suggest simple modifications to create a peaceful atmosphere.
Along with this exhibit, we’ll be hosting workshops and events that explore how our homes and living spaces can help us with all of these different ways of taking care of ourselves.
We're so excited to share this space with you and help everyone feel good and take care of themselves!
Wellness Spaces is brought to you by Professors Ruby Mendenhall (Sociology and African American Studies & Associate Dean at Carle Illinois College of Medicine) and Joe Bradley (Professor in Bioengineering, Business and Carle Illinois College of Medicine), in collaboration with Champaign County ReStore, Siebel Center for Design, and Cancer Center at Illinois, with generous funding from the MacArthur Foundation and the University of Illinois Office of Technology Management.
We're looking for local people
who want to share their skills and ideas with the community. Maybe you're great at making things with your hands, like painting or woodworking. Or maybe you know a lot about money and how to save it. Whatever your skill, we'd love to hear from you. Reach out to us through the link below!
7 Elements of A Wellness Space
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The Wellness Store is a space co-created by young people, by citizen scientists, and their families that will be stocked with digital and physical tools that promote health, healing, and wellness.
How will I be involved?
CHWs will design innovative (low- and high-tech) wellness toolkits. The wellness toolkits will incorporate the latest neuroscience and trauma research about stress reduction and the body-mind-spirit connection. The wellness toolkit will include creating beautiful artifacts and spaces that elicit the relaxation response: interior design, gardens, murals, exhibits, art installations, quilts, books about family history, memorials for individuals killed (e.g., gun violence, COVID-19, policy shootings), etc. All of the tools used will be a part of a new Wellness Store that will be co-designed by the Siebel Center for Design.