The idea of universal design is evolving to respond more effectively to people whose needs, lived experiences and voices are too often left out of the design process. Our People-Centered Design issue explores how designing with deeper understanding and empathy can create more accessible, supportive and engaging environments for a wider range of users.
Science for Everyone: Beyond ADA | Accessibility in Labs
Michele Pollio and Alan Massey highlight what designers can do to go beyond ADA compliance and redefine accessibility for research environments and lab facilities.
Longevity Living™ and Why it Matters
Senior Housing Market Leader Joyce Polhamus shares a new concept that redefines senior living and meets the evolving needs of our aging society with a heightened focus on accessibility, community and adaptability.
Gamification and Gen Alpha: What it Means for Workplace Design
Senior Workplace Strategist Madeline Dunsmore breaks down how gamification will drive the work expectations of Gen Alpha (born 2010-2024) and what this means for workplace design.
Designing for Resilient Learners in Health Education Environments
Health Education Design Strategist Terin Barrios shares four design tactics that support well-being and build resilience in health professions.
Building Trust: A Framework for Traumatic Heritage Sites
Cultural experts Dayton Schroeter, Monteil Crawley and Jim Shepherd explore the designer’s role in building trust with communities as a vitally integrated part of interpreting and preserving heritage sites linked to historic trauma.
Designing to Thrive
Urban Design Director Dan Kinkead examines the evolving practice of trauma-informed design, its relationship to universal design principles and its potential to create impactful places and spaces of healing, recovery and empowerment.
PEOPLE-CENTERED ENVIRONMENTS
Ted Watkins Memorial Park: Design Justice in Watts – Reparative Planning ‘In-Action’
By fusing improved pedestrian safety with vibrant public space and cultural celebration and commemoration, this community-driven collaboration sets a new standard for reparative planning and design.
Masonic Homes of California Continues Campus Evolution
Read about the pioneering addition of The Citrus Heights Health Center skilled-nursing-care facility to Masonic Homes’ Covina campus in this feature article in Environments for Aging magazine.
First Look at UC Davis Health California Tower Addition in Sacramento
Preview the patient-centered design for this 14-story acute care tower providing resilient surge capacity in Healthcare Design.
Design for Belonging in STEM
Hear from the students themselves in this video highlighting their experiences in the Lindley Center for STEM Education at Santa Rosa Junior College, California – a project designed with student input.
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