Place Grounds Health is a platform and a movement for exploring how places make us feel and why—bringing together research, design, and public health to understand better ways of shaping our buildings and physical environments.

Place Grounds Health brings together insights from design, neuroscience, and lived experience to better understand how our built surroundings affect our physical, emotional and psychological wellbeing. We share that knowledge to help those shaping our communities make more informed, people-centered decisions.  

As evidence grows regarding the impact of the built environment on human health and behavior, we work to ensure these insights inform real-world decisions, such as expanding how value is defined in the built environment.  

Place Grounds Health is a civic platform for exploring a fundamental question: 

How do the places we create shape how we feel, connect, and live - and how can we use that understanding to support healthier buildings and communities?