informative and free event.
FOUR SEMINARS AVAILABLE:
8:00-8:30 Welcome & Breakfast
8:30-10:00 Power of Place (IDCEC/AIA Available)
10:30-12:00 GE Lighting Institute (IDCEC/AIA Available)
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Sherwin Williams Colormix 2015 (IDCEC/AIA Available)
3:30-5:00 Progressive Insurance: Corporate Art
5:00-6:30 Networking/Happy Hour
Design Community CEU & LU credits available
Power of Place
Presented by David Haskin, Steelcase
The key to employee engagement is bringing people together with a sense of purpose in a place that will help them achieve their best work. The notion of place often goes overlooked, but when the workplace is designed to be a destination there are substantial gains in engagement and productivity to be had. To achieve this a workplace must be not just a location to do work, but a place that balances collaboration with privacy, fosterscognitive, emotional, and physical wellbeing and offers choice and control.
Lighting for Commercial Office Spaces
Presented by Tracy Debevits, GE Lightening
While lighting is a small percentage of overall office costs including people and property, it has a significant impact on the operational value of the space and its occupants. Quality lighting designs take into account three main areas: (1) Human Factors, (2) Economics, (3) Architecture/Site-Related Issues. Understanding the task needs and illuminance criteria recommended, while balancing energy efficiency, sustainability, and new technology, presents design challenges. This seminar will examine updated illuminance criteria, advances in lighting technology, and knowledge of human factors within the office environment.
Colormix 2015
This course will take the participant on a visual journey with stimulating imagery, factual statistics and perceptive research that supports the 2015 forecast for color and design trends. We will explore the drivers influencing future color and design trends that include global, technological, historic, psychological and economic factors with specific information on the four dominant color stories for Chrysalis, Beyond, Buoyant and Unrestrained.
Progressive Insurance: Corporate Art
Presented by Royden Watson, Corporate Art, Progressive Insurance
& Beth Toth, Facilities, Progressive Insurance
Artwork can move and change the way your employees think and have an impact on engagement and wellbeing. Royden Watson will discuss the history of the Progressive art collection and importance of art in the workplace. Beth Toth will add her thoughts on the role of design and facilities as it relates to this important collection.