When lighting is right, it’s brilliant. When it’s wrong, there’s little else you can focus on. Nothing transforms an environment like lighting—it enhances the aesthetic appeal of a space and can significantly enhance overall employee experience. Explore the connection between lighting and wellbeing to learn about practical tools and resources and gain inspiration that supports the lighting design process.
Two very different behaviors often optimize creative thinking for innovation: high-focus work and restorative activities. Without rest, we are unable to focus. When we lack interaction and collaboration with one another, we often miss out on new ideas and fail to execute them. Organizations that value and design workplaces supporting high-focus work and restorative activities improve employee innovation, creativity, and well-being.
Employers who are desperate to innovate often create open workplaces to initiate collaboration and feel justified by the cost savings earned from limiting the real estate dedicated to individual workspace. While open workplaces can support communication among team members, more recent research indicates that the costs to individual employee performance can outweigh the benefits of collaborative group work.
What are your client’s expectations of the acoustics of a space? What does “Good Acoustics” mean, in each functional area? Privacy? Intelligibility? Minimized distraction? Sense of activity? What acoustic challenges exist in your current space that need to be addressed?
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Affordances are the characteristics of a space that encourage certain behaviors. This course presents the physical, emotional, and cognitive affordances employees need in order to do their work, as well as the role of the workplace in providing support. A well-designed workspace participates in enabling optimal human performance–cognitively, emotionally, and physically.
Bring your A-game to this interactive and engaging course. Using the regarded Competing Values Framework, you will participate in a gaming simulation to help you learn about organizational culture types. Organizational culture is the personality of a company that contributes to a company’s sense of order, continuity, and community.
Mitigating the negative health risks associated with a sedentary life and workstyle is an issue for everyone, especially today’s workers. Designers can help shape spaces that combat inactivity and positively support workplace wellness initiatives. This course focuses on the value of movement to our overall well-being and provides strategies for designing movement into the work experience.
The human body calls for a connection to nature and all of the health infusing, mood-boosting benefits it offers. Unfortunately, people tend to spend most of their waking hours indoors—at the office, in the car commuting, and at home catching up on email or project overflow that wasn’t accomplished at the office. Since “the office” is becoming the place we spend our days—and sometimes even our nights—it is becoming incredibly important to design workspaces that promote happiness, health, and productivity.
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