Insights
Improving care through patient-centred design
The medical experience goes far beyond aesthetics.
The workplace is always evolving. Design is a transformational response.
Recent authors
Jessica Liu
Associate Director, Healthcare Design Lead
Addy Walcott
Brand Experience
Christine Bruckner
Ph.D., FAIA, HKIA, R.A., HKIUD, LEED AP, BEAM Professional, BREEAM AP, RESET AP Fellow, WELL AP Faculty, Fitwel Ambassador, Past President of AIA International Region
Director
Alex Kendrick
Associate, Global Marketing Communications
Steve Gale
Ideas about wellbeing, 45 years ago
We dug out an old magazine with ideas about wellbeing from 45 years ago - this is what it had to say about the state of design
Steve Gale
Hospitality creep is a sweet fact of modern life
This definition of hospitality, “The friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers”, applies to any decent hotel you can think of, but it doesn’t stop there – it’s unstoppable, says Steve Gale.
Steve Gale
Words often need a lot of unwrapping
This is not an “activity-based workplace” — or is it? Words are great parcels of meaning, but they sometimes need a bit of unwrapping.
The desk is dead – long live the desk!
People in offices work at desks, don’t they? But even a quick glance around most offices reveals an awful lot of empty ones. Observation surveys show desk occupation rates of about 50% on average – it’s never much higher.
Moira Moser
LEED in the workplace
Moira Moser discusses the value of LEED in the workplace, the development of the design industry and the future of sustainable design.
