Matt Finn
Matt is passionate about how the built environment influences human health. As a social entrepreneur and architect, Finn founded Cognitive Design in 2016 - a consulting and design firm that works with a network of people from outside the design profession, including clinical psychologists, social workers, and healthcare practitioners, to help inform the design process.
Finn grew up in Atlanta (proof that natives exist) where he works and resides with his wife, Stephanie, and their daughter. After graduating from Kennesaw State University, he began his professional career at Perkins and Will, where he gained valuable experience delivering exceptional client service while working on complex architectural projects. Finn is known for asking the right questions and for maintaining continuity of thought from concept through design, documentation, and construction.
Matt’s interdisciplinary research and innovative thinking have been recognized by Healthcare Design magazine, who named Matt the 2016 HCD 10 Researcher. Additionally, Matt’s work has been featured by numerous academic institutions, media outlets and conferences including the U.S. Green Building Council, Academy of Neuroscience For Architecture and the American Institute of Architects.
Cognitive Design is the convergence of Matt’s passion for collaborative practice-led research and creative design thinking in service of others. And he has fun doing it.
Health is Membership: 25 Years Later
Just over 25 years ago in a speech in Louisville, Kentucky, farmer, poet, critic, and theorist Wendell Berry sought to restore love, healing, wholeness, and health to the lexicon of modern American health care. It is perhaps less remarkable that he did this than that the words themselves had been lost to health care systems at all and replaced with words like efficiency, value, specialization-- words that have more to do with business management than with the tasks of healing and care to which health systems are dedicated. Our task in this series is to probe and understand the relevance of Berry’s thinking for health, healing, and healthcare 25 years on from this speech. As we face an America that spends increasing sums on health care with poorer outcomes, Berry’s thinking might just have something to say that can reorient us and help us all flourish.
- No. of episodes: 7
- Latest episode: 2020-07-03
- Society & Culture Health & Fitness
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