1 minute read[Editor’s Note: We’re honored to introduce an ongoing The Builder’s Daily learning and discovery lab series, exploring the value creation power of health, wellness, and well-being in homes and neighborhoods today and tomorrow. Leading the initiative here, our friend and nationally-esteemed placemaking innovator Teri Slavik-Tsuyuki, founder and principal of Encinitas, CA-based tst ink. For Teri, home – the single most important factor in a human being’s health outcomes – is a never-ending, ever-beginning story, one every person who makes a livelihood of building houses and making places should learn by heart. – John McManus]
Nobody invented wellness. As the chaos and disruption of the global health pandemic wanes into an endemic, health is the new wealth. And those of us involved in creating the spaces and places where people live their lives have a major opportunity to make a major impact.
Chiharu Shiota, a Japanese performance, and installation artist educated in Japan, Australia, and Germany writes,
Our first skin is human skin. Clothes make up our second skin. If so, then isn’t our third skin made up of our living spaces – the walls, doors and windows that surround the human body?”
Watch for the second installment in this series, with some inspiring examples focused on the domain of this “third skin” of physical wellness.
