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ALBION DISTRICT LIBRARY BY PERKINS + WILL IS A 2018 COTE TOP TEN RECIPIENT. IMAGE: DOUBLESPACE PHOTOGRAPHY

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how a pandemic reframes our thinking about wellness at all scales (including climate change)

  • 1.  how a pandemic reframes our thinking about wellness at all scales (including climate change)

    Posted 04-15-2020 07:20 AM

    Like many of us, I have been thinking a great deal about how the pandemic connects to climate change (an issue of global wellness). This essay by Lance Hosey and Rives Taylor of Gensler frames the connections, and the questions they raise, very elegantly.

    "We can learn from this crisis to improve our wellness at all scales - from enhancing the experience of public spaces, to creating interiors that promote health, to strengthening our domestic supply chains. But curbing carbon emissions remains the most urgent challenge. The Earth is one, interconnected community that affects the wellness of everyone."

    https://www.gensler.com/research-insight/blog/redefining-wellness-in-the-face-of-pandemic

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    #designforfuture

    #wellnessatallscales



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    Kira Gould
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    Kira Gould CONNECT
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