Our Purpose
The purpose of the RDA is the formalization of Restorative Design as a professional practice with a built network, a framework, and a physical and virtual Center for Restorative Design practice - providing equitable, life-giving, embodied design and education. Our practice is both an intervention (through training) and preventative (through design).
Who We Build With
Members who are values- and mission-aligned, building together toward a new paradigm in which care is the foundation of all design and education.
What We Offer
THE FRAMEWORK
A formalized framework for the professional practice of Restorative Design.
DESIGN SERVICES
Restorative design and consulting for individuals, spaces, communities, and organizations.
INDIVIDUAL GUIDANCE
Personalized mentorship, harm reduction, and embodiment training for practitioners integrating RD into their work.
MEMBERSHIP NETWORK
Networking and membership for values-aligned practitioners.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Materials, courses, and certification in the practice of Restorative Design.
The spaces we inhabit should restore us to our innate ways of being.
What we build is a set of systemic alternatives: environments designed with care and vitality as their foundation, from the individual scale to the systemic.
As RD practitioners, we recognize the colonial history of architecture and design, and how that history is also present in people's values and beliefs, displayed through things such as power, control, domination, and unconsciousness. So we begin there.
Restorative Design Framework©
