Design, Construction and Planning
Design Dynamics Lab
Led by Lisa Platt · Interior Design
What we study
The Design Dynamics Lab uses computer models to study how building materials and designs affect health and resilience in disasters. They create tools to help designers make safer, sustainable choices.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Coding helps
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- A Methodological Process for Healthcare Flooring Material Decisions Using Cost-Benefit Analysis and Sustainability Frameworks
2026 · HERD Health Environments Research & Design Journal
Creates a cost-benefit tool to help choose healthcare flooring materials based on safety and sustainability.
- Integrating resilience engineering into sustainability education: evaluating a SAMPL model for competency-driven building material selection
2026 · Smart and Sustainable Built Environment
Develops a model to teach students how to select sustainable and resilient building materials.
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- Nurse-Informed Flexibility in Healthcare Design: Stakeholder Perspectives on Feasible Strategies for Practice
2026 · HERD Health Environments Research & Design Journal
Nurses shared photos and text messages to identify design strategies for flexible hospital environments.
- Impact of regenerative design on resilience within urban core neighborhoods: a scoping literature review
2025 · Cities & Health
Reviews research on regenerative design in mixed-use urban neighborhoods to improve resilience.
- Mitigating workplace violence in emergency departments: preliminary development and assessment of an environmental design decision-support tool
2025 · Architectural Engineering and Design Management
Develops a tool to help design emergency departments that reduce violence risks for healthcare workers.
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