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Helena Howard

Architect

Hawkins\Brown

Helena Howard
Helena joined Hawkins\Brown in 2015 after completing her masters at the Bartlett School of Architecture with distinction. She is passionate about user experience, thinking carefully about the requirements of user groups while advocating for quality, variety and joy where possible. Her keen interest in the use of colour to enhance a person’s experience led her to undertake a number of research projects investigating this topic, most notably at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and UK Dementia Research Headquarters.

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Colour: Are we ignoring a powerful tool to support dementia patients?

Education & Health

11 March 2021

Colour: Are we ignoring a powerful tool to support dementia patients?

The use of colour in the built environment can be a transformative tool to add joy, variety, and legibility to space, but is often rejected or ignored during the design process in favour of neutral to...

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Helena Howard