#059 Environment Design

To make spaces truly equigenic, said Mitchell, we need to orient people to them,

situational self-control; just as we can shape an environment to encourage action, we can shape an environment to slow down rash decisions and interfere with undesirable habits and behaviors. We control the situation (environment) in order to control behavior.

The space should feel calm and inviting.… Before we opened this, I visited a lot of university centres for imagination and labs and that kind of thing, and a lot of people go for this all-white, sleek futuristic feel. It’s all plastic and steel, and I think something really different happens when people are surrounded by natural materials like ston

divergent design—the idea that the physical spaces we inhabit as Autistic people ought to prioritize our sensory health, and work with the actual patterns of our lives.