Designing for brain health now has an advocacy group
HKS, Perkins&Will, and Corgan are members of the new Building Brains Coalition.
P&W is one of the partners in the recently launched Building Brains Coalition, which serves as a bridge connecting built environment professionals with neuroscience, psychology, climate science, and public health, to design for resilience, wellness, and cognitive health. The Coalition’s founders include the design firm HKS, Rice University’s Baker Institute Neuroscience Policy Program, the Center for Advanced Design Research and Evaluation, the Center for BrainHealth, and the Brain Capital Alliance.
The Coalition’s 33 member-companies (as of mid-February) run the gamut, from the design firm Corgan to the office furniture supplier Steelcase, the San Antonio Spurs NBA team, the city of Dallas, homebuilders, the International WELL Building Institute, universities, healthcare networks, foundations, and local chapters of Urban Land Institute and USGBC.
In addition to the five founder organizations, the Building Brains Coalition is strengthened by the involvement of the Academy of Neurosciences for Architecture (ANFA), Brain Health ACTION (an AARP collaborative), Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA), International Interior Design Association (IIDA), and Simtigrate Lab at Georgia Tech.
