DESIGN
Architecture and design can significantly improve and enhance rights.
They can tackle discrimination and improve people’s physical and mental health, elevating entire communities. But lack of awareness, commitment, and resources remains a major constraint to human rights-centred design.
Click the overarching and stage-specific principles below to review the guiding questions across this stage. These questions will help you to identify the main human rights risks and opportunities and develop a tailored action plan.
Design seeks to open rather than close space for the realisation of all human rights and the protection of human dignity
Guiding questions
Has the human rights record of the client been taken into account, risks of complicity in abuses mitigated, and opportunities for leverage on human rights issues identified (including through project contracts)?
Have opportunities been explored to use design to advance human rights and civil liberties?
Have opportunities been explored to enable greater interaction between diverse users of the space and local communities?
Are measures to ensure the safety of users and local communities managed in a way that prevents infringement of civil liberties?
