Writings.
Places for Connection & Community
How the built environment can help heal and prevent loneliness.
Is Your Environment Making You Lonely?
Changes in our buildings and infrastructure design have exacerbated disconnection, separation, and isolation.
Built Environments to Foster Social Health
Spaces designed and activated to facilitate social connection by sparking or supporting 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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