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How Can the Built Environment Bring Healing and Restoration to Individuals in Various Circumstances?

The interior environment has long had an impact on the thriving of civilizations. For centuries, we as human beings have been positively and negatively influenced by the colors, shapes, textures, and amount of light along with many other factors that define the environments we live, work, and play in every single day. Designers have the responsibility and ability to bring healing and restoration to people in various circumstances through the art of creating positive environments. For better or worse, our surroundings speak to our dignity and worth as people. Designers have the ethical and moral responsibility to speak that dignity and worth into every single design we do for every client. We live in a dark and troubled world full of individuals living through things that we cannot begin to imagine. Design can bring some light and life back to these individuals by using color, texture, light, and sound to create, soothing, bright, loving environments that are worthy of the light and life inherent in every person.