I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.
Interpretation
Good design can enhance healing processes, while bad design can hinder them.
This quote emphasizes the importance of design in environments and objects where healing takes place, such as hospitals and homes. Michael Graves suggests that thoughtful and well-executed design can create an atmosphere conducive to recovery, whereas poorly designed spaces may create stress and discomfort, ultimately affecting a person's ability to heal.
In practice
Using this quote to inspire an architecture firm focusing on healthcare buildings.
Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.
Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.
We've taken on health care in a big way in our office, ever since nine years ago when I was paralyzed. I was in eight different hospitals, three different rehab centers, and all the rooms were dreadful. As an architect, designer, and patient, I can do something to help.
Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.
It is both auspicious and peaceful for people to choose vegetarinism.
Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead.
Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness
What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.
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