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.
The built environment has a positive impact on physical and mental health
Guiding questions
What do local communities think will be the best way to maximise health and wellbeing through the project?
Have steps been taken to assess and mitigate the projects' risk to physical and mental health, and to maximise its positive contribution to health and wellbeing of the local community? (1, 2, 3, 4, 7)
Stories and illustrative examples
International standards and tools
Standards on the Right to Health
Sustainable Development Goal - Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages