The Growing Case for Neurospatial Design: Investing in Health and Prosperity

Neurospatial design, an emerging topic that bridges neuroscience, health, and the built environment, increasingly influences how we design the spaces, buildings, and cities around us. As we spend more and more of our lives indoors, the design behind our environments contributes substantially to our health and social well-being. 

Some organizations already apply neurospatial design principles to create these environments, but broader adoption will require forward-thinking leaders across workplaces, health care, education, and housing to invest in the benefits of neurospatial design.

The Growing Case for Neurospatial Design: Investing in Health and Prosperity provides a compelling rationale for adopting neurospatial design across workplaces, health-care facilities, educational spaces, and residential communities. The report highlights two pathways with actionable opportunities to promote spaces designed to provide health and economic benefits:

• In the near term: Implement neurospatial design as an evidence-based strategy to improve workplaces and health-care facilities, benefiting employees, patients, and overall organizational health.
• In the long term: Build the case for neurospatial design in schools and homes to enable broader adoption and scale implementation, ultimately strengthening communities.

Read The Growing Case for Neurospatial Design: Investing in Health and Prosperity to learn more about how neurospatial design offers practical approaches to address challenges across organizations, sectors, and communities, and how leaders can adopt neurospatial design to support individual health, community well-being, and economic prosperity.

Beginning in 2025, SPARC and The Pedersen Foundation partnered to develop future-focused insights and philanthropic opportunities to expand collaboration, adoption, and investment in neurospatial design. Explore Bridging Neuroscience, Health, and the Built Environment: A Giving Smarter Guide, which lays out neurospatial design’s core principles, key players, challenges to its broad adoption, and priority areas where philanthropic investment can advance neurospatial design to improve human health.