Corridor and Main Entrance of Secure Detention Center
Massachusetts Department of Youth Services Northeast Regional Center
Photo By Trent Bell Photography and Courtesy of ICON Architecture
Talks, Podcasts, and Presentations
What the Experts Are Saying
Inclusive Designers Podcast: An Award-Winning TiD Tool for Designing Schools (Season 5, Episode 1)
What is the Trauma-informed Design Society’s award-winning TiDEvalK12 Tool and how can it be used to help designers and educators identify ways to make positive changes within their schools?
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In this episode, you’ll meet the team that created this thought-provoking tool that can bridge the gap of language and understanding to ultimately reduce stress through the built environment.
BAC Talks (Winter 2021) and Inclusive Designers Podcast: Trauma-informed Design: Transforming Correctional Design for Justice (Season 2, Episode 3)
Panel discussion that addresses the real consequences of the prison environment on human biology, which result in lasting impacts on incarcerated individuals, and provides an alternative approach to correctional design in light of these irrefutable facts.
BAC Talks (Summer 2020) and Inclusive Designers Podcast: Trauma-informed Design: A Look at Educational Environmental Design in a Post-Pandemic Environment (Season 1, Episode 7)
Interdisciplinary panel discussion, led by Boston Architectural College faculty, addresses the need for a trauma-informed approach when designing K-12 schools, and explores the role of designers in providing safe and sustainable futures in educational environments. The discussion includes an exploration of design solutions to social inequities.
Inclusive Designers Podcast: Designing for Trauma-informed Design (Season 1: Episode 5) with Davis Harte and Janet Roche
What does ‘trauma-informed’ mean, and how can design help create a comforting, supportive and safe space for those who feel vulnerable during trauma recovery? J. Davis Harte, PhD joins us to discuss trauma-informed design, and walks us through her designs for a former bank redesigned to be an abuse intervention center for children and youth.
​Inclusive Designers Podcast: Trauma-informed Design for Behavioral Health with Meredith Banasiak: 3-Part Series
This just in…new changes are coming for those who create spaces for Behavioral Health. Combining the scientific knowledge from Neuroscience and the research evidence from Trauma-Informed Design is opening up new ways to optimize health, performance and access.
An Adaptive Reuse Project
Harte, J. D. (2019). “View from the field: An adaptive reuse project with a trauma-informed design lens, to benefit a child-abuse intervention center”. In Beth, A., Wener, R., Yoon, B., Rae, R. A., & Morris, J. (Eds.). Proceedings from EDRA 50: Sustainable urban environments. Brooklyn, NY: Environmental Design Research Association.
Creating Places of Safe Refuge
Harte, J. D. (2017). “Trauma-informed design: Interdisciplinary teamwork to create places of safe inclusive refuge within an urban middle school”. In J. Shin, M. Narayan, & S. Dennis, Jr. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association: Voices of Place, Madison, WI (p. 186). Madison, WI: The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA).