This blog post was authored by Jeff Kuhnhenn, AIA, LEED AP, Director of Architectural Design, Gresham Smith. Over the past 40 years, there has been a slow but radical realignment in how designers and ...

Increasingly, the concept of social sustainability has become a central theme in contemporary architecture discussions as users' subjective and non-static needs become paramount in the design process.

Moving away from top-down approaches, contemporary practices embrace more inclusive and participatory models and design processes. Participatory planning, a notion that prioritizes involving the ...

Rory A. Cooper is the founding director of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, a joint center of the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He is a VA ...

A rendering made for The Queens Museum’s Central Atrium for All. (Denise Chow, Maya Gamble, Reem Khorshid, NDos Onochie, and Kalla Sy) AN’s Executive Editor, Jack Murphy, spoke with Sanders and Choe ...

DUBAI, 3rd April, 2026 (WAM) -- The Community Development Authority (CDA) in Dubai held a participatory design session at Al Khawaneej Majlis, aimed at enhancing social financial benefit services and ...

A participatory road design for the busy Bogadi Road junction in the City developed by Mysuru School of Architecture (MSA) in consultation with civil society groups, residents and Greenpeace India ...