Definition of ‘Generative space’:

Generative space is an environment, a place — both physical and social — where the experience of participants fulfills the functional requirements of that space and it also materially improves the health, healthcare, and quality of life for those participating in that experience in a manner they can articulate in their own terms.

By its very nature, a generative space is a place that progressively and tangibly improves over time.

The purpose of cultivating generative space is to improve performance effectiveness. Depending upon the interests of a particular individual, organization, or community the measurements of effectiveness will vary. However, in all cases, whatever these measures are — they will be used to encourage, support, and reinforce increasing performance effectiveness in health, healthcare, and quality of life.

The goal of understanding how to cultivate generative space is to be able to produce it consistently, reliably, and predictably across the full range of life’s contextual situations — including:

a. our personal lives,
b. our professional and organizational work, and
c. throughout the vast spectrum of our community
   engagements.

Visit our website, www.thecaritasproject.info — in particular, see the ‘Leading by Design’ Case Studies.

Selected Articles:

"Applied Generative Space: Improving Health and Well Being Through Your Practice Environment." Journal of Holistic Healthcare, May 2010, Vol. 7, Issue 1, p. 36-39.

Designing for Health: Leading by Design – A Place to Flourish
By Tama Duffy Day, FASID, IIDA, LEED AP
Contract Magazine Online
January 14, 2010

Personal Interview (“Q&A with Dr. Wayne Ruga: Generative Learning”). Medical Construction & Design, September / October 2009, p. 32 – 34.

“Your General Practice Environment Can Improve Your Community’s Health”. British Journal of General Practice, July 2008, Vol. 58, No. 552, p. 460 - 462. {Invited Editorial}.

“‘Generative Space’ – A Sustainable Means to Improve Healthcare with Design of the Environment”. Asian Hospital and Healthcare Management, March 2007, co-authored with Annette Ridenour.

Moving Beyond the “Smackdown” Towards an Architecture of Place