For most of us, rampant disease outbreak is uncharted territory that we are just learning to navigate in the face of COVID-19. But the Boston- and Kigali, Rwanda–based nonprofit MASS Design Group has been working on the front lines of infection transmission since the firm was established by Michael Murphy, Alan Ricks, and fellow students from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, in 2008.
Founded on the belief that the built environment is never neutral and has the power to harm or keep us safe, MASS has worked extensively in developing nations, constructing and retrofitting buildings to promote infection control as well as creating design standards and guidelines for government infrastructure. That expertise enabled MASS to form a COVID-19 Design Response team here in the U.S., to share strategies (mostly open-source guidelines) aimed at mitigating the risk of infection in health-care spaces and beyond.
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