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2025

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Graphic Panel, Healthy Housing for Native Communities

This is a Graphic panel. It is a part of the department.

MASS Design Group’s COVID-19 Design Response team developed guidelines in response to the rapidly evolving understanding of how the disease spreads. Building from lessons learned in the field, these design strategies were developed in partnership with key thought leaders and partners.

Native communities cultivate resilience through long traditions of care. Indian Country already faced a 200,000-unit housing shortage when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. This diagram shows methods to improve existing housing and strategies for future housing.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 167.6 × 167.6 cm (5 ft. 6 in. × 5 ft. 6 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics.

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