Patcraft Industry Event
Post Neocon product tour in the Patcraft Showroom! They will be offering tours all day (with refreshment) and/or there will be a multi-firm happy hour that evening.
NeoConversations: The Role of Research on Climate Change, Human Health and the Built Environment
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“COVID-19 has highlighted the link between environmental conditions associated with climate change – such as loss of habitat and air pollution – and infectious respiratory disease. Understanding how regions, cities and buildings can mitigate and adapt to changing climate conditions while reducing environmental impact has created innovative design, construction and policy practices. What is less clear is the exact relationship between human, organizational and community health and building-level climate change and adaptation practices.
This session will discuss research gaps and opportunities and how building and organizational level practices fit into larger-scale climate change adaptation and mitigation targets. Leaders from IWBI and ASID will discuss how design can further this important work, highlight key areas of research and engage discussion on the broader role of design centered on climate change and human health.”
NeoConversations: Build Back Better: Redefining a New Normal for Healthy Buildings
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“All of our design institutions (healthcare, education, workplace), were built around assumptions and conventional wisdoms that are no longer true. This session will explore how standard and outdated business practices are holding us back from innovating new solutions needed for a post-COVID world and will examine the ways to engage in an innovation strategy to solve problems often assumed to be unsolvable. Based on insight developed working with Fortune 500 clients, Eric Corey Freed will share how organizations, companies, and municipalities can accelerate their plans for sustainability, climate, carbon, equity, or resilience, while addressing the organizational limitations of waste, inefficiency, and fear. This program has been submitted for accreditation and is pending approval.”
NeoConversations: Empathy in Practice
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“Design is about everything we interact with, and for interior design, it's about combining beauty and function to enhance how users experience a space. But conscientious designers are recognizing they have a larger role to play. Design has become vital to thinking, to process, to solutions, and to action on so many social and environmental issues we find ourselves collectively facing in the 21st Century. Meet a group of optimistic designers taking their skills and talents to the next level by channeling design for real purpose. These practitioners aren't waiting around for change to happen, they are using design as a tool to enable much needed change. This program has been submitted for accreditation and is pending approval.”
NeoConversations: Bring Your Whole Self to Work: Designing for Holistic Employee Wellness
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“The COVID-19 crisis forced the world to undertake the largest remote working experiment in history. Endless video calls revealed our homes, partners, kids, and pets, blurring the line between our work and personal lives. We also experienced suffering, isolation, and cultural disconnection which has had a profound impact on our mental health. This session will explore the pandemic’s transformational effect on wellness and the workplace. We will learn about the many dimensions of holistic wellness and how to support wellness beyond the walls of the office for the hybrid workforce of the future. Together we will discover design strategies to achieve employee wellness and ultimately organizational success because when people thrive, business thrives. This program has been submitted for accreditation and is pending approval.”
NeoConversations: In the Next Future of Work, Wellbeing, Engagement, and Collaboration Are Paramount
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“Wellbeing, both physical and mental, will become an increasingly important component of the next future of work. The advancing body of science proving how design impacts human performance and behavior will be harder for organizations to ignore. Gone are the days when historical metrics such as cost/square foot and first cost drive decisions. This new era will center on people and focus on engagement, productivity, recruitment, and retention. As employee engagement numbers hover around 30%, organizations that move the needle through wellbeing, resiliency, and flexibility will come out ahead. Attendees can expect to learn about wellbeing, people-centered strategies that drive positive culture and result in greater innovation and enhanced productivity. This program has been submitted for accreditation and is pending approval.”
NeoConversations: Mental Health in the Workplace
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“The COVID-19 pandemic has put mental health in the spotlight. Employees are contending with environments and cultures that lead to stress, isolation and low engagement. This session will explore how the workplace influences mental health and will outline the range of ways organizations can enhance mental well-being, with an emphasis on strategies in the WELL Building Standard™ v2. It will provide suggestions on how employers can harness design and culture to decrease stress and support a focused, engaged and productive workforce, including key considerations for both a remote workforce and for those returning to the office. This program has been submitted for accreditation and is pending approval.”