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 ...
Online interactions can create stress responses in users, but if designers and developers received trauma-informed training, the benefits would go well beyond “do no further harm.” Trauma-informed ...
It’s no wonder, then, that most of us live amid a background of anxiety and stress that, for many, borders on the traumatic. Such constant stress can lead to health issues from headaches, high blood ...
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 ...
LIVE OAK, Texas — Ikea U.S. last week opened an in-store model of a permanent supportive housing unit built with sustainable materials and using the principles of trauma-informed design. The model, ...
Ikea Small Home mockup. All photos courtesy Ikea and WestEast Design Group. Hopefully, most of us won’t have to deal with being homeless during our lives — however, that shouldn’t keep us from feeling ...
Conshohocken, Pa. – Ikea U.S. this week opened an in-store model of a permanent supportive housing unit (aka a small home) built with sustainable materials and using the principles of trauma-informed ...
Artist's rendering of a typical apartment in the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati's new homeless shelter for survivors of intimate partner violence. A different kind of homeless shelter is taking shape in ...
AMES, Iowa — An Iowa State University researcher is embarking on a new research path, paving the way in an emerging field of study within landscape architecture: trauma-informed environmental design.
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 ...