Neuroscience + architecture + Design
How brains, minds, bodies and buildings interact.
It’s All Connected
Design for All People, Places and Our Planet.
CLINICIANS for DESIGN
Clinicians for Design provides multi-disciplinary collaboration with decision-makers, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, patients and leaders with a vision to improve clinical spaces.
Our international network of clinicians guide planners, designers and architects to improve health and care environments.
Save Lives by Design TEDx
Hospitals and health care places can have a measurable impact on patient outcomes, physician performance, and the the emotional and physical wellbeing of all users.
The COVID-19 Front Line Design Guidance for Hospitals was informed by specialists in Anesthesia, ICU, Virology, Internal Medicine and multiple disciplines for the American Institute of Architects.
Design Grand Rounds
Lectures, Courses,Workshops, & Consultations discuss how to address the challenges and improve outcomes by design or renovation of healthcare facilities.
Strategic roadmaps are developed to advance value-driven design in existing and new healthcare facilities.
Design Innovation & Review
Discuss the specific challenges faced in specialized health care settings, and define the value added by clinician-informed design.
Workshops gather information from the clinical team as and when they are available. Meeting can b on or off site via interactive or asynchronous meetings.
Creative options and solutions provide by clinicians are translated and reviewed with the design teams to demonstrate real-world needs.
Work Spaces & Learning Places
Research-based principles informs value-led decisions for renovations and new facilities that reduce risk, support staff, and enhance experience, performance and learning.
Redesigning the Office for the Next 100-Year Flu
(Yes,It’s Coming)
National Public Radio report on how biology informs design thinking for pandemic times and the next event.
9/14/2020
Brain-Based Design
Design advice for projects and product development.
Design for neurodiverse users considers how our diverse brains, minds, bodies and experiences can inform built settings.
Courses, Workshops and Project Consultations: online and/or in person.
Neuroscience includes bio-medical, physiological, cognitive, socio-cultural, psychological and behavioral knowledge.
Home is Where the Brain Is
Rapid design review of home offices, and places for rest and rejuvenation. Individual through multi-family consultations to enhance residential and natural settings, considering how the brain, mind and body responds.
Design for All
The ingenuity of your experts along with our design thinkers and architecture facilitators devise principles for greatest return on the investment in design.
Clinicians, executives & subject matter experts form a global network committed to translational design thinking.
Translational Design
Translating knowledge from the human sciences into design for all peoples and places.
Clinicians for Design provides multi-disciplinary collaboration with decision-makers, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, patients and leaders with a vision to improve clinical spaces.
Our network includes specialists from Stanford University, University of California, University of Virginia, Oregon University, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, the University of Greenwich, and Trinity College Dublin, among others, as well as planners, architects and designers from around the world.
Operating Room Workshops
The specific challenges faced in surgical theatre and procedure rooms include noise, lighting, ergonomics as well as infection control. The additional needs in teaching hospitals and academic medical research institutions add greater complexity.
interactive or asynchronous meetings consider creative options and solutions provide by clinicians and research leaders.
COVID-19 Front Line Design Guidance
Design Guidance & Checklists by doctors and subject matter experts for healthier places now and in the future.
Front line doctors, nurses and subject matter experts at top-tier academic medical centers advise on design guidance.
Clinicians for Design
Inaugural Proceedings. & Publications
Your Expertise
+ Our Network
= Design for All
The ingenuity of your experts along with our facilitators devise principles for greatest return on the investment in design.
Clinicians, executives & subject matter experts form a global network committed to translational design thinking.
We advise on all phases to consider user experience and outcomes, deploying multiple methods including virtual and mockup simulations, biometric, observational and published research.
Design innovation begins with your priorities, interests and ingenuity, to inform business plans and briefs, ideation, conceptual, schematic, design development, and products. Pre-design inquiry informs value added and value-engineering. Post-occupancy evaluations provided lessons learned for enhancements and the next projects.
Services, Courses, Tools & Resources
Courses, Workshops, Conferences
Consultations, Metrics, Design Reviews
Research, Publications, Policy Guidance
Services
workshops, studies, user and advisory groups - briefs, principles, plans and design for human and environmental health.
Stanford University - Acoustic mapping of people and places in 4 dimensions
Gadget Lab & HxLab - Founder and Research at Perkins & Will in workplace, education, urban, science, health
University California Berkeley - Neurod-Universal Design - Berkeley Teaching Prize
University California San Diego - Virtual and Augmented Reality in visual and sound space
Building Blocks for Clinicians - Great Ormond Street Hospital, NHS & University Greenwich
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children - Design Simulations
Great Ormond Street Hospital - Cancer Centre
University of Texas Houston - Campus for Continuous Care
University of Cincinnati - Gardner Neuroscience Institute
Tools
guidelines and tools - developed with subject-matter experts using practice-based Neuro-Architectural Tools.
AIA COVID-19 Alternate Care Settings - Whitepaper & Checklist Tool
AIA COVID-19 Front Line Perspective - Whitepaper & Checklist Tool
International WELL Building Insitute - Acoustics and Burnout
Resources
presentations & papers with research-based and clinically-informed design principles and solutions.
European Healthcare Design Congress
Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design - Master Program, Iuav University, Italy
American Academy for the Advancement of Science - Invited Presentation
American Institute of Architects - Keynote Presentation
Center for Health Design - Presentations
NewSchool of Architecture & Design - Neuro-Architecture Courses
Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture
Purpose:
VISION
Inspire and accelerate the design of environments to enrich the interface between people and places.
MISSION
Engage an international group of user and subject-matter experts to guide research, education, and policies that enhance design.
ACTION
Offer workshops, conferences and consultations to inform the planning and design of healthy environments.
Please contact us if you may be interested in participating.
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