Careful Spaces topic
Dining environments
The room residents vote on three times a day: layout, light, sound, and service.
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The Dignity of Assisted Dining: Layouts for Help That Doesn't Become a ShowSome residents need help eating. Room layout decides whether that help happens as quiet companionship or public performance: seating geometry, staff reach, and the segregation question.
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Lighting the Dining Room: Seeing the Food, the Fork, and the Face Across the TableThe dining room is the building's hardest lighting problem: three meals, changing daylight, aging eyes, and a room that must be both bright enough to eat by and warm enough to linger in.