Designing for Dignity: Elements of Practice

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

    9781961856950
  • Title

    Designing for Dignity: Elements of Practice
  • Author

    Daniel Brisson, Chad Holtzinger, Rachelle Macur, and Tom Otteson
  • Publisher

    ORO Editions
  • Publication year

    2025
  • Binding

    Hardcover
  • Language

    English

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Cite: "Designing for Dignity: Elements of Practice" 28 Aug 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1033466/designing-for-dignity-elements-of-practice> ISSN 0719-8884

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