09-30-20

The most innovative wellness projects of 2020

See all the honorees of Fast Company’s 2020 Innovation by Design Awards in the Wellness category.

By Fast Company1 minute Read

Winner

[Photo: Overland Partners]

ChildSafe Harvey E. Najim Children and Family Center
Overland Partners
A trauma care center for abused children in San Antonio that highlights the restorative power of nature, with ample views of the outdoors, natural materials, and a healing garden

Finalists

[Photo: Designtex]

Celliant upholstery
Designtex

[Image: Stanford]

Compassionate search: Bringing mental health treatments to Pinterest
Pinterest and experts from Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation

[Image: Work & Co]

Daily Harvest app
Work & Co

[Photo: Fuseproject]

ElliQ
Fuseproject, Intuition Robotics

[Photo: Open Source Respirator]

Model M1
Open Source Respirator

[Photo: Tempo]

Tempo Studio
Tempo

[Photo: Crave]

Vesper Touch & Tease
Crave

Honorable Mentions

[Photo: Bearaby]

Bearaby Tree Napper
Bearaby

[Photo: Beautycounter]

The Clean Deo
Beautycounter

[Photo: Astro Studios]

Colgate Plaqless Pro Toothbrush
Astro Studios

[Photo: Fuseproject]

Dreem
Fuseproject

[Image: Hims & Hers]

Mental Health for All online support groups
Hims & Hers

[Photo: EPFL+ECAL Lab]

Ming Shan Digital Experience
EPFL+ECAL Lab

[Photo: Lola]

Redesigned Pads
Lola

[Photo: Chowbotics]

Sally the Robot 2.0
Chowbotics

[Image: Seed]

@SeedUniversity
Seed

[Photo: Reaktor]

Suunto 7 smartwatch design language
Reaktor

[Image: Josephmark]

Wheel of Foreplay
Josephmark

Video

Impact

‘Green buildings’ conveniently ignore the emissions from their construction

This startup just raised $75 million to make a more cheesy plant-based cheese

There is no place you can go to escape wildfire smoke

News

These wildfire tracker maps show smoke, hot spots, and air quality by zip code

Google Maps expands mass-transit predictions to help you avoid crowded subways and buses

Generation X is the least likely to believe they’ll get rich one day

Co.Design

This company is building a carbon calculator for every product in the world

China is the capital of supertall skyscrapers. Why is it banning them?

The celebrity hype machine collides with crypto hysteria. What could possibly go wrong?

Work Life

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