Andrea Giovando believes design has the power to improve your day–and even your life. The principal and senior interior designer at Bond Architects was first introduced to the formal concept of trauma ...

Design is more powerful than we often realize. Trauma-informed design is the intentional creation of spaces that help people feel safer and more in control, especially if they’ve experienced adversity ...

Supporting traumatized children is a critical issue facing our schools. Mid-pandemic, 90% of our children have experienced toxic stress. Over 60% of our kids have experienced trauma. The trauma can ...

Before the pandemic, trauma-informed design focused on the usual suspects: substance abuse, violence, homelessness, poverty and racism. But life in the time of COVID-19 has augmented the checklist ...

HMC Architects has released Architecture for Healing: Trauma-Informed Design, a new guidebook developed in partnership with Bassetti Architects, a design studio of HMC. The publication examines how ...

As awareness of trauma-informed care grows across healthcare, education, and community settings, designers are increasingly being asked to translate clinical principles into physical space. With the ...

Many architects and designers have highlighted the importance of taking into account all five senses during the design process, in order to create a successful user experience. Fortunately, many ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Changes to the Michigan State University Union and Berkey Hall were planned with eye toward transforming the scenes of last year’s mass shooting into spaces where everyone ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. For many of us, the global lockdowns stemming from the COVID-19 ...