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SAFE SPACES
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About Safe Spaces
Safe Spaces seeks to bring more engaging, comforting, and inspiring therapy solutions to foster care children. In partnership with the Helping Hand Home for foster children in Austin, the Project H's Austin team will redesign and renovate two "Quiet Rooms," spaces within the Helping Hand Home in which children who misbehave take "timeouts." The spaces, however, are sterile, even clinical, and offer no interactive experiences for children with behavioral conditions to calm down, become re-engaged and even inspired by a more colorful and tactile environment. Through research investigations into therapeutic uses for textures, objects, light, sound, landscapes, and material, the design team, in close collaboration with Helping Hand Home, will develop and test new concepts for these Quiet Rooms. These new "therapy through engagement" models will provide systems that Project H hopes to roll out to multiple facilities for foster care homes, via other team partnerships in additional cities.
Concepts being developed for implementation include graphic and material treatments (a character-based scene and the use of a calming labyrinth). These two concepts will be developed in coordination with therapists from Helping Hand, and material insights from local health care partners.
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Project Location: Austin, Texas
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Project Team
Location: Austin, Texas
Project Leaders: Chris Lovin, Rob Moser, Julie Heard, Will Bryant, Kate Canales, Mycal Elliot
Contact: info@projecthdesign.org
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