Studio Dickey is a Charlotte-based art and design practice that sits at the intersection of public health and spatial design. Founded by Rachel Dickey—an Associate Professor of Architecture at UNC Charlotte—the studio operates under the belief that the built environment can actively help us process, transform, and coexist with pain to foster and promote healing. By bridging advanced research in neuroscience, psychology, and neuroaesthetics with community-informed concepts, we design at all scales, from furniture to landscapes, parks, spaces, and places. Our work is dedicated to proving how modern physical forms can tangibly support health, elevate happiness, and cultivate human flourishing across diverse public audiences.
The office’s built work had involved various clients including Angels Gate Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Office for the Arts at Harvard, Des Cours in New Orleans, the Museum of Design in Atlanta, Nine Dot Arts in Denver, Charlotte City Center Partners, Charlotte Mecklenburg County, Charlotte Arts and Science Council, and Rock Hill Economic and Urban Development. The work has been recognized in various media including Architectural Review, Architect Magazine, the Charlotte Observer, Carolina News Today, and has been published in journals and books by MIT Press and Princeton Architectural Press.
Rachel Dickey is Principal of Studio Dickey and Associate Professor of Architecture at UNC Charlotte. Her work is characterized by the synthesis of art, architecture, psychology, and neuroscience. While her research explores how experience-oriented art and design are enlivened, materialized, and situated in the world through the body, her professional projects serve as real-world applications of applied research, providing interactive material interfaces that mediate between physiological and psychological states in spaces for therapeutic and otherwise beneficial ends. Dickey received a Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Georgia Tech and a Master of Design from Harvard University.
Please send all inquiries to info@studiodickey.com.