Introducing the 2016 Center for Active Design: Excellence winners! Read about these exemplary design and research projects from around the world that demonstrate innovative ways to support healthy and engaged communities.

Join us on October 28, 2016 at WNYC's The Greene Space in celebrating this year's Center for Active Design: Excellence award winners. Manoush Zomorodi, the host and managing editor of Note to Self from WNYC Studios, will moderate a discussion on the role of design in shaping healthy and engaged communities.

Assembly is a groundbreaking initiative of the Center for Active Design, made possible by generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Assembly seeks to understand how place-based design informs a range of civic engagement outcomes.

Fitwel℠ is a low-cost, high-impact certification standard that will transform workplace environments by improving employee health and productivity. The Center for Active Design has been selected as the operator for Fitwel, which was developed by the federal government of the United States. To learn more, visit Fitwel.org.

Real estate developers play a crucial role in ensuring that affordable housing is designed and built to support health. Read more about our work with the design and development community that inspires the design of health-promoting affordable housing.

We translate evidence into practical design strategies that resonate with public and private sector professionals. Read about our work with the Urban Land Institute, which empowers real estate developers to promote public health as a profitable investment.