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Macro ExpertLily Bernheimer

Environmental psychologist pioneering human-centred design for the built environment

Lily Bernheimer is an environmental psychologist, consultant, and author of The Shaping of Us: How Everyday Spaces Structure Our Lives, Behavior, and Well-Being. Pioneering user experience design for the built environment, Lily has led human-centered design projects across the workspace, urban, residential, and justice sectors since 2007. As founding director of Space Works Consulting, she has worked with organisations like the Ministry of Justice, Transport for London, and Grainger plc, and writes for Psychology Today. Her research on wellbeing in prison design with matter architecture was awarded the 2018 RIBA President’s Award for research in ethics and sustainable development.
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