We offer support, process, & innovation to our partners in the fields of health, non-profit, built environment, and service design. Please reach out if you have a project that needs a participatory human-centered approach.
We believe in creating cultures of care and we cross disciplinary boundaries to do so. External partners include Hospitals, Shelters, Non-profit Care Providers, and Industry Experts. In 2022, we acted as the design lead on a health and usage study of urban Philadelphia play spaces funded by the William Penn Foundation, and we hosted 120+ guests for design thinking workshops for our urban community partners and creative consulting work.
Mantua
Creative
Standard
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AGING-IN-PLACE
The main objective of the MCSAP relates to developing supportive interiors through assessment and re-conceptualization. Building on and continuing the community-based participatory approach, the team here uses the scorecard to make suggestions for interiors that support aging residents in active creative endeavors. Through participatory projects in the community and the study of age-friendly principles, age-friendly care and current standards in aging, the design research team developed the Mantua Creative Standard for Aging-in-place (MCSAP), an interiors-focused trauma-informed analytical scorecard with actionable next steps for residents to repair and maintain their urban interior spaces and develop creative space. For more info on the MCSAP and how to work with us please fill in this form
The Casa Farnese/ Farnese Foundation
Second Story Collective
American Hospital Association — Age-Friendly Care Action Group
Swiss Center for Design and Health AG
Penn Medicine Center for Healthcare Transformation and Innovation
The Autism Institute
The Drexel Writers Room
Domestic Violence Centers of Chester County
The Alliance of Non-Profit Care Providers Presbyterian Homes
Fabric Health
Ewing Cole
St Christopher’s Hospital
IMPACT Services
FAIMER
DUO
Dornsife School of Public Health
Agewell Collaboratory
People’s Emergency Center
Scattergood Foundation
One Art Community Center
Bancroft
The Environmental Collaboratory
Town of Van Buren, Maine
“ Cultures of Care celebrates people that practice collective care in unconventional and insurgent ways. Care is an essential, immediate and practical way to create belonging. Perhaps most vitally in our urgent times, at the heart of each profile you will find provocations that are seeds for reshaping society and how we relate to each other and the world.”
https://belonging.berkeley.edu/cultures-of-care/overview/why
