Dina Sorenson
d.studioDina is an award-winning design leader, speaker, and author recognized nationally for her work at the intersection of architecture, public health, and the built environment. Named an Icon in Education in 2025, she brings a distinctive transdisciplinary approach to planning and designing places that foster health, well-being, creativity, and a love for nature across diverse communities. She is founder and design director of d.studio, a transdisciplinary design practice, and designer-in-residence for research at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health Center for Systems and Community Design, where she leads local discovery for the Supporting Parks and Revitalizing Communities Study (SPARCS) and Active Design Guidelines 2.0 in New York City. As co-chair for research at the American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Education, Dina has led and directed international projects and publications.
Let Kids Be Kids: Reimagining Safety and Belonging in School Design
Join us for the launch of Let Kids Be Kids, a new engagement tool from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) that asks a deceptively simple quest
…Join us for the launch of Let Kids Be Kids, a new engagement tool from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) that asks a deceptively simple question: what does it mean for a school to be truly safe and welcoming? Informed by a decade of research
…Join us for the launch of Let Kids Be Kids, a new engagement tool from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) that asks a deceptively simple question: what does it mean for a school to be truly safe and welcoming? Informed by a decade of research led by the AIA-CAE (Committee on Architecture for Education) Research Subcommittee and Safe Schools Working Group, Let Kids Be Kids draws on interdisciplinary research, design practice, and, most imp
…Join us for the launch of Let Kids Be Kids, a new engagement tool from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) that asks a deceptively simple question: what does it mean for a school to be truly safe and welcoming? Informed by a decade of research led by the AIA-CAE (Committee on Architecture for Education) Research Subcommittee and Safe Schools Working Group, Let Kids Be Kids draws on interdisciplinary research, design practice, and, most importantly, student experience to confront urgent questions of safety, mental health, community, and design justice in schools. This session is a call for all those who play a role in shaping the environments where children learn and grow. Using a circular learning model, participants will work in small, rotating groups to engage directly with the publication's most provocative questions and will leave with new tools for designing and advocating for safer, more welcoming schools. Above all, Let Kids Be Kids is an invitation to reimagine schools and rethink the communities around them as places where belonging blooms and children thrive.
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