The Restorative Design Association creates environments through systemic alternatives that nurture health, wholeness, and belonging, with an ethic of care as its foundation. We center our work alongside the people, families, communities, and the natural world we serve.

We live in a system that was never designed for health. 

Most of the spaces we spend our lives in were not made with the majority of us in mind. 

We inherit structures built to be cheap, profitable, and fast, and we are the ones paying for it with our labor, our attention, and our sense of well-being. 

The places we spend our lives in can either harm or heal us - We design for those who have experienced space as harmful and recognize harm as the pathology to be addressed.

This is the importance of designing restorative containers and healthy environments.