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The Corporate Forum develops dialogue and networking opportunities regarding well-designed workplaces and their impact on corporate business goals. This group provides information exchange, opportunities for professional development, and promotes awareness of the positive effects of productivity and profitability achieved through high-quality design and design solutions.

Oct 13, 2010 "Generating Positive Emotions through Biophilic Design"

Corporate and Sustainable Design Forums Combine to Present a CEU:

Generating Positive Emotions through Biophilic Design

Biophilic Design recognizes the inherent human need for nature together with sustainable & universal design strategies to create environments that truly enhance life.                                                                                                                                                                                           
 
Join us as Judith Heerwagen, environmental psychologist and editor of Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science, and Practice of Bringing Building to life, shares ways to reduce psychological and physiological stress, shift to a more positive state through using biophilic principles and approaches in the built environment. We will also discuss building a business case for biophilic design based on research done across a wide range of applications.   
 

Receive 0.1 IDCEC (IIDA/ASID) CEU or 1.0 AIA Learning Unit.

 
Location
Haworth Inc
2211 Elliott Avenue, Suite 105, Seattle, WA 98121
 
Date/Time
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
5:00pm Refreshments, small bites & networking
5:30-6:30pm Presentation followed by Q&A
RSVP   
Please Register via the IIDA website,
Registration is now open.
 
Admission
Members: Free for Members
Non Members: $20.00
Student Non Members: $10.00
 
Event Host
Haworth Inc
 
Forum Philosophy
 
Corporate Forum 
The Corporate Forum develops dialogue and networking opportunities regarding well-designed workplaces and their impact on corporate business goals. This group provides information exchange, opportunities for professional development, and promotes awareness of the positive effects of productivity and profitability achieved through high-quality design and design solutions.
 
Forum Advisor:
Josh Khanna, Associate, IA Interior Architects
j.khanna@interiorarchitects.com

 

 

 

The Integrated Design Process

The integrated design process is a catch phrase in its prime. What does it mean to each of us? If you asked a mechanical engineer, you will probably hear about BIM (Building Information Modeling). If you reference the recent IIDA Perspective magazine article The Power to Deliver, you’d find that it means bringing the interior designer to the table early. But, aren’t these just slices of the holistic meaning of Integrated Design?
During an engaging dialogue with IIDA Corporate Forum attendees in September, we shared the following definitions of an Integrated Design Approach:

  • Where the "who", "when", "where", and "how" of a project is decided along with the "what", instead of after
  • A team collaborating to create functional interior from programming and research
  • “Integrative” suggests an evolving process rather than a fixed process. It implies we’re never really done (taken from The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building)
  • This approach asks all members of building stakeholder community, and technical planning, design, and construction team to look at project objectives, building materials, systems, and assemblies from many different perspectives (a deviation from traditional process as doesn’t rely on expertise of specialists to work in their respective silos and somewhat isolated from each other)

Voice your mind. What does it mean to you? 
Posted by Kim Parsley, IIDA Northern Pacific Chapter Corporate Forum Advisor

 

 

 

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