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The design and real estate industry has a significant role to play in creating a more just and equitable society where everyone is afforded the same opportunity to live a healthy life and we are more resilient against extreme events such as the current pandemic. This session will examine how power and privilege are currently influencing design decisions, and share an equity-centered integrative practice framework to transform the ways we work, melding the JUST label ideals to promote global health resilience. Stories will inspire collaboration and overcoming barriers to affecting broad change and a Living Future.

Join Mithun partner Erin Christensen Ishizaki for “Confronting Power and Privilege: Centering Equity through an Integrative Design Process for Health Resilience” to learn how using a health equity lens and intentional design process can help increase individual, family, and community capacity for resilience. The session will share insights into motivations behind real estate decisions, how to prioritize physical and mental health resilience needs and integrate programs, and an emerging research framework and evaluation methods that combine health, equity and resilience approaches.

Erin’s co-presenters include U.S. Green Building Council director of health research Kelly Worden, and Verge Impact Partners principal and founder Vedette Gavin.

Date Posted: 04.21.2021