"Verona Carpenter Architects is a Manhattan based architecture and interior design firm with deep experience in education, workplace, arts and culture, retail, and hospitality. VCA considers how all the senses participate in our experience of spaces, with an understanding that this experience is individual, not universal. The firm focuses on designing with and for humanity, and disability and neurodivergence are key parts of this humanity. The firm’s designs create spaces for meaningful experiences in part by taking a sensory approach that supports differences in physical mobility as well as in the often-invisible cognitive differences that define us. The firm creates through an inclusive design process, providing client teams with multiple ways to engage. Work is guided by the following principles: Design for difference, dis/ability, and inclusion. Create environments for experience. Keep the big picture + the detail in mind. Maximize the resources of each project."