Now more than ever, we must improve upon our digital encounters. Online engagement and digital tools offer the promise of increased convenience of involvement, better-informed citizens, reaching more diverse audiences, and sustaining engagement over time.
Providing a robust structure to support mental health in the office will not only address fears and concerns about the future, but will also allow people to work efficiently, adapt to a new normal, and heal.
Whether we continue to work remotely, return to the office part or full time, there will be apprehension about how our workplace will either help or harm.
With evidence-based-design strategies and a combined focus on combating the impacts of chronic disease AND infectious disease, our homes can be become places of solace and productivity, and serve to enhance our overall health and wellbeing.
This is the time for designers, planners, and engineers to apply critical and creative thinking and identify design solutions that will help a changed society move forward.
Moving from a controlled office environment where everyone has access to the same tools, to an incredible diversity of home environments with varying bandwidth, distractions, and physical configurations requires honest communication in order to maintain equity amongst staff and minimize frustration.
While discovering our similarities is a joy, I’ve come to realize that how we acknowledge and constructively surface our differences is just as important, if not more so.
Kate Barone Dimock and Juan Dorado have been named two of ENR Southwest's Top Young Professionals of 2021.
The 2020 NAIOP NM Design Awards celebrated ten projects designed by D/P/S.
For over 20 years, Bill Sabatini served as the lead design principal for Dekker/Perich/Sabatini.