Writings.
Design for Social Connection & Community
6 Ways to Design for Social Connection and Community - How the built environment can help heal and prevent loneliness. As cities invest in infrastructure, paying attention to how they impact loneliness and community well-being can benefit everyone.
Is Your Environment Making You Lonely?
Loneliness and social isolation are undermining the health and well-being of millions of people—and changes in our buildings and infrastructure design have exacerbated this. Unwittingly, many of us have moved from more communal and public life to increasingly privatized and separated ways of living.
How the Built Environment Can Foster Social Health
We are beginning to recognize the role of our built environments in shaping our social experiences and opportunities for connection. Spaces designed and activated to facilitate social connection can help us overcome loneliness by sparking or supporting meaningful relationships…
Scientific Writing
Designing for Clinician Teamwork.
Clinician teamwork is effective at improving health care outcomes. The physical environment is an important part of a system that facilitates teamwork. This review critically evaluates and synthesizes research on the effect physical space and surrounding system (e.g., policy, culture) on teamwork in health care facilities. Published in Environment & Behavior.
Evidence-Based & Research-Informed Design.
A critical examination of the conceptual meaning and underlying assumptions of the concepts evidence-based design (EBD) and research-informed design (RID) in order to facilitate practical use and theoretical development. In recent years, EBD has experienced broad adoption, yet it has been simultaneously critiqued for rigidity and misapplication. Published in Health Environments & Design Journal.
Environments to Foster Social Health
Growing familiarity with health risks of loneliness and isolation underscores the importance of social connection in patients’ lived environments and communities. Deficits in social connection are linked to poor cognitive, mental, and physical health and premature death. Design interventions for physical environments—structures, spaces, and soundscapes, for example—can foster social connection, support, and resilience. This article canvasses urban interventions that can support human health investment and development. JAMA Ethics
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