On healthcare and inclusion with BLP’s Tracy Lord

Healthcare design expert Tracy Lord joins us on the Stories Indesign podcast to discuss her varied inspiration and the need for nuance in her sector.

BY Timothy Alouani-Roby

May 5th, 2025

Tags: architecture, billard leece partnership, blp, design, diversity, gender, health, health and wellbeing, health design, healthcare, healthcare design, Hospital, inclusion, interior design, podcast, stories indesign, The Commons, transgender, workplace design

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BLP Principal and Health Sector Lead Tracy Lord joins Timothy Alouani-Roby to discuss healthcare design, taking us past the bureaucratic regulatory framework and into the deeply human – and political – reasons why she cares. Lord tells the story of her career, as well as topics such as transgender access and designing for diversity.

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