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CannonDesign’s Insights is a place for the global design firm to share thoughts and news related to their current efforts to help transform businesses, educational models and health paradigms. The firm engages diverse perspectives and expertise to deliver proven, innovative solutions to our most important partners, our clients. Our global network of more than a thousand professionals enable us to create design solutions to the greatest challenges facing our clients and society. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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Designers

The growing moral responsibility of designing for shade

In the tragic first chapter of Kim Stanley Robinson’s breakthrough novel, The Ministry of the Future, readers follow a caregiver as he navigates an Indian city amidst a crushing...
Sept. 20, 2024
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Designers

Designing better built environments for a neurodiverse world

Every person experiences and interacts with their surrounding environment in their own unique ways. Cognitive neuroscience identifies this reality as neurodiversity, the idea ...
Jan. 3, 2024
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Government Buildings

Former munitions plant reimagined as net-zero federal workplace

Previously a World War II Munitions Plant and most recently an aging National Archives and Records Administration warehouse sitting vacant on the Denver Federal Center, Building...
Oct. 23, 2023
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Higher Education

How boldly uniting divergent disciplines boosts students’ career viability

"Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience. They are both a part of us and a manifestation...
Aug. 22, 2023
The Latest Pediatric Design Solutions For Our Tiniest Patients
Healthcare Facilities

The latest pediatric design solutions for our tiniest patients

Guided by our Whole Child, Every Child philosophy, our pediatric design practice is redefining care for children across the country using evidence-based and trauma-informed design...
July 10, 2023
As Our Firm Looks Towards The Future Of Architecture, We’re Shooting For More Impactful And Transformational Goals Than Sustainability
Sustainability

Let's build toward a circular economy

If someone asked you how your marriage was and you said “sustainable,” would you be proud of that answer? A sustainable relationship to a building, community and planet should...
May 11, 2023
Los Angeles is creating an action plan outlining what it can do to create modernized, heat-resilient infrastructure through community engagement
Sustainability

4 ways designers can help chief heat officers reduce climate change risks

As our world becomes unpredictably hotter due to climate change caused by carbon emissions, governments and organizations are taking increasingly bolder actions to curb and mitigate...
April 10, 2023
From Developing Life Saving Vaccinations To Combating Climate Change, To Studying The Smallest Of Nanoparticles, To Exploring The Vastness Of Space, It Is Critical As Designers To Know How We Can Play A Part In Scientific Discovery
Laboratories

5 laboratory design choices that accelerate scientific discovery

Research spaces can play a large part in super-charging the scientific method and making this process easier and more optimized to drive innovations forward. Our role in accelerating...
March 9, 2023