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How to carry responsibility for unintended consequences

The school I designed won awards but three kids have committed suicide there in two years and I lie awake wondering if something about those spaces contributed to their despair.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The complexity of human suffering resists our attempts to control it through design, leaving us questioning the limits of our influence.

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