Join us as we explore how educational spaces can help improve mental and emotional health.
Trauma-informed design is not simply a passing notion related to a post-covid environment; as designers we have the opportunity to lead with empathy and transform spaces for good. During this CEU we will dive into these specific spaces and understand how we can effectively design them to positively impact our psychological state. Learn more about the guest speakers below! 1 IDCEC is available for this.
J. Davis Harte ("Davis") is the Director of the Design for Human Health master's program at the BAC. Davis is also an advocate, practitioner, and speaker who bridges trauma-informed spaces, children's places, and birth environment design with brain, neuroscientific and environmental psychological knowledge. She teaches Environmental Psychology, Advanced Theories in Design for Wellbeing, and Play and Health in Designed Environments. She centers equitable representation and social justice for the global majority in her design work and scholarship. She co-leads the Global Birth Environment Design Network (GBEDN) with Doreen Balabanoff, PhD and Nicoletta Setola, PhD. She is most proud of the work she did as the environmental designer for The ABC House, an abuse-intervention center adaptive re-use project located in Albany, Oregon.
Ann Sussman, RA is an architect, author and researcher. Ann is passionate about understanding how buildings influence people emotionally. Her book, Cognitive Architecture, Designing for How We respond to the Built Environment (2015), co-authored with Justin B. Hollander, won the 2016 Place Research Award from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). A frequent speaker, she has given more than 80 lectures at regional conferences, colleges and universities, including keynoting architecture events in Houston, Cincinnati and Nashville in 2017, and presenting at Greenbuild/Berlin in 2018 and Greenbuild/Amsterdam in 2019.
Laura Regrut, IIDA, ASID is a designer, metalsmith, and educator. She employs the power of design and its psychological influence to create environments that seek to increase the health and wellness of end-users. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Interior Design from the University of Cincinnati and an M.Arch from the Boston Architectural College. Her project areas include commercial, educational, and residential sectors. Laura is an educator and teaches in several Boston area interior design programs.
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