Creating environments that support your health, your happiness, and your well-being is a passion for Erin Peavey,—Architect and Health & Well-being Design Leader at HKS. She's also well known for her TEDx Talk "Can design heal loneliness?"

Her passion was born from personal experience as Erin cared for her mother during her battle with cancer. Daily walks in the community with her newborn daughter showed her the power of feeling connected to a community through shared public spaces. Erin decided to look into academic research and understand more about how design elements like accessibility, nature, and human scale foster social bonds.

Erin now shares her research through her podcast Shared Space, Psychology Today columns, and an upcoming book. All of these resources aim to make scientific insights accessible and captivating to inspire more empathetic design.

Learn more about Erin Peavey and HKS.

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