Continuing Education

Affordances are the characteristics of a space that encourage certain behaviors. This course presents the physical, emotional and cognitive affordances that every worker must have to do their work and the role of the workplace in providing them.

To best navigate the roads of communication and meetings in an ever-diversifying workplace, this course aims to help learners understand their personal leadership brand. This leadership brand is defined by each individuals’ strengths and the value that they add to a team and organization.

Employers need open and interactive space to encourage collaboration, and such spaces can introduce distractions. Distractions, however, sabotage focus, and focus work is a necessary part of collaborative efforts. How can we solve this conflict? Approach workplace design so that it encourages both collaboration and focus work within a variety of options for optimal worker performance.

Learn more about the Healthy Hospital Initiative (HHI), an invitation for healthcare organizations across the country to join the shift to a more sustainable business model, and a challenge for them to address the health and environmental impacts of their industry

Bring your A-game to this fun, interactive course. Discover how to pinpoint an organization’s culture and how to use this knowledge to inform workspace design for collaboration.

Two very different behaviors optimize the creative thinking for innovation to occur: high-focus work and restorative activities. We need to experience these on our own as well as with others. Explore the growing evidence that supports this, and how space design can cultivate the creativity needed to innovate.

Humans were made for connection – connection to Mother Nature and all of her health-infusing, mood-boosting benefits. But, let’s face it, people spend most of their waking hours indoors. This course helps to educate people on why connection to nature is important at work, and provides tools architects and designers can use to bring the outdoors in and the indoors out in practical applications now and in the future.

This course will review the principles of acoustics as a science, how to use key design tools for office interiors, and will describe the key factors which define the user experience of speech privacy.

Nothing transforms an environment like great lighting. This course explores the latest trends in lighting design, the connection between lighting and well-being, and offers inspiration to support the lighting design process.

This course will focus on the changing role of work and its effects on the workplace.

Workplace Well-Being: Designing for Movement focuses on the value of movement to our overall well-being and provides strategies for designing movement into the work experience – wherever that may be – at work, at home or someplace in-between.