Take Good Care: How to nurture your team, yourself, and your connections in a time of quarantine
If you want to accurately gauge how much something matters to people, all you have to do is to tell them that they’re not allowed to have it. The coronavirus pandemic has forced us into isolation and severely restricted our movement and interaction with other people. It’s also highlighting just how deeply we need and want to be around each other.
Transitioning a Design Studio into a Remote Workforce
During this unprecedented moment of change, architecture studios across the country are reporting that they are abruptly transitioning their operations from a studio model into a work from home model.
The Truth About Design Thinking
Design-Thinking has become a common catch phrase in the public lexicon but it’s much more than a euphemism for the design process. By understanding and applying the philosophy that underlies this powerful concept, architects can potentially unlock new sources of value. There’s something to the adage that the more things change the more they stay the […]
The Human Experience: Organizational Sustainability, Employee Health and Wellness
The Human Experience is an emerging model in workplace design. It’s equal parts sociology, psychology, organizational behavior, and architecture – the intersection of workstyle and lifestyle. Organizations focusing on The Human Experience seek to attract and retain top talent by creating workplace environments that make employees want to come to work, be active participants and […]
The Human Experience: Technology, Change, and Risk
The Human Experience is an emerging model in workplace design. It’s equal parts sociology, psychology, organizational behavior and architecture – the intersection of workstyle and lifestyle. Organizations focusing on The Human Experience seek to attract and retain top talent by creating workplace environments that make employees want to come to work, be active participants and […]
8 Critical Factors of the Human Experience
As organizations continue evolving, reaching new levels of sophistication in the pursuit of ‘optimized’ or ‘collaborative’ workplaces, they’re discovering that optimization and collaboration aren’t strictly a function of architecture; shared spaces don’t inherently make employees more productive or collaborative. Certainly, designing collaborative spaces is vital, but it’s not a magic bullet. Collaboration for its own […]
Work Life, Work-Life, Worklife
I have found that the best way to come to terms with work-life balance, especially as an architect that has been trained from college to expect many sleepless nights, is that balance is not the ultimate goal – adaptability is. Life is inherently messy and unpredictable. Things are not always going to go as planned […]
Creating a Better Employee Experience
We need to treat all of our employees with the same thoughtfulness that we approach our client relationships.
Designing a Better Survey
While anyone can send out a survey, designing one is truly a science. When getting my Master in Public Administration, I took an entire semester on research methodology, during which I learned how to create statistical tools that systematically describe information, apply empirical evidence to the discovery of intuitive and experiential knowledge, and inform decision making through accurate generalization and hypothesis testing
Dignifying Design for New Nursing Mothers
For moms who come back to work with the intention of pumping, it can be a logistical nightmare.