Helping you design for health and sustainability!
Helping you design for health and sustainability!
Attivo Designs is committed to advance the connection between health and our built environment by working with our partners, clients and community to creatively reimagine and animate our environments to influence healthier behaviours.
Over one hundred years ago public health, urban planners and engineers worked together to address epidemics of infectious diseases by redesigning cities to support health. The result was the introduction of clean drinking water, sewer systems, and access to fresh air and sunlight.
These innovations remain with us today, often unnoticed, and were responsible for a considerable portion of the increase in life expectancy witnessed over the last century and a half.
In recent decades efforts to make life more productive and convenient have succeeded in largely engineering physical activity out of our lives. Today our current epidemic of chronic diseases also requires us to rethink how we plan and design our cities, buildings, and transportation systems.
Active Design - strives to impact public health not only physically but also mentally and socially by creating buildings that encourage greater physical movement by users and visitors to, from and within a building; and in transportation, Active Design supports a safe and vibrant built environment where people choose to walk, ride a bicycle and use public transit.
Lorenzo is a sustainability and active design specialist with 30 years of experience applying a human centred design approach to producing and managing programs and services in the fields of - solid waste management, water conservation, transportation, and public health.
He is committed to providing superior customer service - combined w
Lorenzo is a sustainability and active design specialist with 30 years of experience applying a human centred design approach to producing and managing programs and services in the fields of - solid waste management, water conservation, transportation, and public health.
He is committed to providing superior customer service - combined with a passion for innovation and evidence informed solutions. He possesses an acumen for communications, strategic planning, and policy and partnership development, and has a profound respect for the power of people and community.
Felice is a designer with an extensive carpentry background and a veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces. Perseverance and passion are two great strengths he brings to the team. As an intern for the Rhema Foundation of Canada, he designed a community hub at Downsview Park that just received construction funding. A recent graduate from Geor
Felice is a designer with an extensive carpentry background and a veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces. Perseverance and passion are two great strengths he brings to the team. As an intern for the Rhema Foundation of Canada, he designed a community hub at Downsview Park that just received construction funding. A recent graduate from George Brown College in the Interior Design Technology program where he is the recipient of the Award of Excellence.
"Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood." -- Margaret Oscar, designer
Christiana is a designer with a passion for sustainable and adaptive design. Her co-op term at Irpinia Kitchens grew her inquisitiveness of accessibility and inspired her to become a recent graduate of the Interior Design Technology program at George Brown College. She is fluent in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat Pro. Her streng
Christiana is a designer with a passion for sustainable and adaptive design. Her co-op term at Irpinia Kitchens grew her inquisitiveness of accessibility and inspired her to become a recent graduate of the Interior Design Technology program at George Brown College. She is fluent in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat Pro. Her strengths, which she brings to the team are Adaptability and Creativity.
Taking the stairs - accumulates short bouts of physical activity throughout the day, contributes to positive health effects, recommended physical activity levels and is an activity that can be easily integrated into everyday life.
Our Active Stairs integrate active design philosophies into the building’s circulation systems— especially its stairs and elevators – and its building program to encourage stair climbing and walking between destinations.
The design process - relying in part on meaningful consultation with the building community - allows us to uncover the unique nature of the building context, its occupants and surrounding community, and is used to inform and shape the Active Stair design.
Contact us today for an Active Stairs design consultation
Walking and riding a bicycle are arguably the two most joyful, healthy and often overlooked modes of transportation. Many of our communities and neighbourhoods sadly have been designed predominantly for travel by private automobile.
Using a community based and experiential design approach that puts people and their needs first - we work with you and your stakeholders to carry out an unbiased examination and evaluation of the active transportation environment.
We work with you to gain valuable user insights into your existing and planned active transportation networks and designs. Our aim is to identify improvements and enhancements related to safety, access and comfort and to make walking and riding a bicycle a joyful experience for all!
Contact us today for an Active Travel UX Design consultation.
Project Name: Active Stairs – Design Concepts
Client/Partner: George Brown College, Toronto Community Housing Corporation, Morguard
Description: The purpose of this project was to demonstrate the connection between health and the built environment and served as a learning example of how, by creatively reimagining and animating our environments, we can influence healthier behaviours and inspire other projects in the community.
Working with the George Brown College - Interior Design Technology program - Active Stair design was included as part of the 3rd year Small Project course requirement and allowed students the opportunity to prepare active stair design concepts.
Project Name: Walking Audits in Ontario – Current State of Practice
Client/Partner: Ontario Traffic Council (OTC), Public Space Workshop
Description: The purpose of this research project was to better understand how 'walking audits' are being used in Ontario and specifically to:
• Determine current awareness and application of Walking Audits in Ontario
• Understand challenges, opportunities, and merits for the application of Walking Audits to support transportation network planning and design
• Assess need and interest in professional development opportunities for Walking Audit training
The method included purposive sampling - identifying contacts according to their previous experience with OTC committees; and their involvement with active transportation planning and design in government, consulting, public health or NGOs in Ontario; and snowball sampling – participants were asked to suggest other potential contacts with Walking Audit experience to be invited to participate in the study.
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