
Designing for Dignity: Elements of Practice reflects the current and best thoughts on Dignified Design. The book offers tangible guidance for how the built environment can promote health and wellbeing and how design professionals can create atmospheres of dignity and hope.
Transdisciplinary evidence, including interviews with over 3,000 people over the last decade, informs the premise of the book—acknowledging that nothing we design is neutral, the places we inhabit shape our ideas about who we are and what we deserve, and the built environment has the potential to promote safety, comfort, community, and control for all end users. The 22 elements of Dignified Design illustrate a range of potential spatial responses with infinite applications, all of which underscore that Dignified Design requires intention, iteration, and evaluation to achieve meaningful impact. Designing for Dignity: Elements of Practice centers health, wholeness, and flourishing—stipulating a standard of DIGNITY in housing, shelters, and all environments.
ISBN
9781961856950Title
Designing for Dignity: Elements of PracticeAuthor
Daniel Brisson, Chad Holtzinger, Rachelle Macur, and Tom OttesonPublisher
ORO EditionsPublication year
2025Binding
HardcoverLanguage
English






