Human Space

We’re a global collaborative of experts and specialists working with placemakers and city builders to create spaces for all. Our human-centric approach creates spaces, buildings, and communities that consider people first and incorporates broad perspectives to arrive at better solutions. This means integrating accessibility, wellness, and inclusion as essential components to creating safe, equitable and resilient built environments. Our work prioritizes variations in physical mobility, hearing, vision, strength, stature and cognition, as well as factors beyond disability to embrace the intersectional aspects of age, gender expression, race, place of origin, socioeconomic status and other considerations. At the heart of our projects, we aim to enable a complete spectrum of participation in all aspects of society. Human Space has successfully delivered more than 300 inclusive design projects over the past decade spanning healthcare, residential, workplace, hospitality, recreation, education, transit, and public realm. Our practice is grounded in decades of experience, with a team specialized to support client needs. We provide our expertise worldwide and to a range of clients including government agencies and policy makers, architecture, engineering and construction firms, post-secondary and healthcare institutions, community organizations, real estate and land developers, private corporations and many others. Our service offerings include: • Social Impact & Equity Studies • Building Audits & Feasibility • Certification & Benchmarking • Project Consulting (P3, Design-Build, Compliance) • Inclusive Design • Research & Innovation • Community Reach & Engagement • Guidelines & Frameworks • Service Design • Occupancy Evaluations • Wayfinding & Graphics • Placemaking Human Space is the inclusive design practice of BDP, a major global interdisciplinary design consultancy with locations across four continents.