Interior environments that support users’ resilience are an emerging topic among designers. A person with resilience is able to recover from problems quickly. We all have problems, but people who have experienced past traumas such as physical abuse, mental abuse, or homelessness need to preserve and rebuild their resilience in… Read More →
It’s complicated. It’s dynamic. It’s constantly changing, and at an accelerating rate, too. This is the world we live in. It’s a world comprised of many elements and factors which are intricately woven into a complex system where changes in one area impact the factors related to it. It’s an… Read More →
The workplace setting has become a key target for innovative wellness programs to encourage healthier and happier lifestyles. With the increase of sedentary behavior, encouraged by our televisions, phones, and computers, it is ever more important to find creative ways to incorporate physical activity into everyday tasks. For desk-based jobs in… Read More →
The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Foundation awards up to $100,000 annually for research through the Transform Grant. This year, a multidisciplinary team from the Center for Advanced Design Research and Evaluation, HKS, Inc., Dallas Independent School District, Herman Miller, and recently, USG, was awarded $30,000 to build a… Read More →
Millennial brains are just wired differently. This fact quickly became apparent when I started my new position in August as an assistant professor in the Department of Interior Design at the University of Florida. I decided early on that rather than ban the use of mobile devices in my classroom,… Read More →
Interdisciplinary design helps solve complex design problems by bringing together various players in the built environment and other disciplines to create designs for the total human experience (see “A Beautiful Symphony,” page 26, in the Winter 2015 issue of ICON). Another approach to interdisciplinary design is taking lessons learned from… Read More →
Location, location, location is the mantra familiar to every real estate agent, developer, builder, and prospective homebuyer. In today’s more mobile society, however, location is no longer all that matters. Nor are size and status. Whether millennials or baby boomers, buyers are looking for homes that support their changing lifestyles… Read More →
Call it gender equality, gender parity or gender neutrality. As more and more women ascend to professional and leadership positions, businesses and organizations have striven to create cultures and provide environments that accommodate both sexes without favoritism. What often is lacking in these efforts is a clear vision of what constitutes… Read More →
As a veteran of the lighting industry with over 40 years of experience, I’ve seen a lot of lighting trends come and go. Remember recessed fluorescent lighting in the kitchen or floor to ceiling pole lights? And now along comes LED lighting. When LED lighting was first introduced several years… Read More →
Evidence-based design (EBD) is an innovation to the design process for design practitioners who strive to base design solutions on measurable outcomes. The issue is that of ‘evidence’—how it is identified, validated, and implemented as the framework for all design decisions in concert with programmatic information gathered by the design… Read More →