The Learning Objective

Live from the Healthcare Design Conference in Kansas City, this episode explores how healthcare end users are navigating increasingly complex decisions for the built environment. Hear why early problem-spotting beats crisis response, what’s breaking alignment at the start of projects, and how clearer communication and stronger partnerships can help healthcare teams move faster with more confidence. LINKS:  End-User Decision MakingJoin Thinklab’s researchPodcast Discussion Guide  5 Question Quiz to Earn CEU CreditsThank you to our episode sponsors: Haworth and Clarus. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Explore the evolving role of sustainability in architecture and design with our guest, Avi Rajagopal, Editor-in-Chief at Metropolis, as we dive into key metrics, material selection, and the power of collaboration to drive meaningful change.After listening, you will be able to: ·     Explore the Evolution of Sustainability in Architecture and Design  ·     Identify Emerging Tools and Innovations for Sustainable Design  ·     Assess the Impact of Collaborative Efforts in Driving Sustainability  ·     Decode the Metrics of Sustainability in Design.Take this short, 5-question quiz to receive your CEU credits: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8PJNLNBThis episode is accredited for IDCEC, AIA | 0.5 CEU/0.5 LUSpecial thanks to our CEU episode sponsors, Humanscale, for partnering with us to provide valuable insights on compelling topics for the design industry. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode we explore how technology is transforming real estate strategy and design processes. Our guests, Brian McCourt from Cisco and Michael Gordon from Deloitte, discuss the critical role of tech in enhancing end user experience, indoor environmental quality, and informing strategic real estate decisions. Listeners will learn about the importance of early tech integration in the design process, and how leveraging data can lead to more informed, cost-effective outcomes.Here's how to complete your entire CEU podcast process in 3 simple steps:Step 1: Listen to the episode.Step 2: Visit this link, to take a short 5 question quiz.           *Scoring an 80% or above on the quiz will earn you 0.5 CEU/0.5 LU.Step 3: Upon passing the quiz, receive your certificate of completion from the CEU provider.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of The Learning Objective presented by Baresque, we discover how to up our awareness of noise in every sensory domain—exploring solutions for designing inclusively to provide higher levels of comfort and function for the everyday user.  In part one, you’ll learn from Steve Orfield, researcher and President at Orfield Labs, as he analyzes multi-sensory experiences and their impact on human cognitive behavior and perception. In part two, you’ll hear from Evan Benway, managing director at Moodsonic, to evaluate one specific sense, our auditory sense. Looking at a newer development, soundscaping and the challenges and advantages of manipulating sound to benefit the user experience.  After listening, you will be able to: Understand the multi-sensory factors that contribute to noise. Incorporate a key principle of universal design. Uncover the psychological effects of auditory noise on human behavior and well-being.Discover the role of soundscaping on the user experience.  Complete the QUIZ HERE to get your IDCEC credits.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of The Learning Objective presented by Delta Faucet Company, ThinkLab explores the profound impact of water on our mental and physical health within the built environment. Our guests help us uncover the remarkable connection between exposure to water and improved psychological health, sharing intriguing statistics about the positive effects of water on creativity and idea generation.  We discuss the 15 patterns of biophilic design, ranging from nature in the space to natural analogs and nature of the space, and how architects and designers can apply them effectively to create environments that resonate with our innate connection to nature.  After listening, you will be able to:Learn why water in the built environment can have a more significant positive effect on mental well-being than green spaces. Explore the future possibilities of water-inspired designs and how they can contribute to a more sustainable and well-balanced built environment. Uncover practical strategies for incorporating water features into architectural projects to enhance occupants' mental and emotional states. Connect with our guests: Dr. Wallace J. NicholsCatie Ryan Balagtas Here's how to complete your entire CEU podcast process in 3 simple steps:Step 1: Listen to the episode. Step 2: Visit this link to take a short quiz. Step 3: Upon passing the quiz, receive your certificate of completion from the CEU provider Accredited for: IDCEC, AIA | 0.5 CEU/0.5 LU See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, ThinkLab interviews Amanda Schneider, president and founder of ThinkLab, and Jessica Jenkins, co-host of The Learning Objective and part of the research and development team at ThinkLab. Together, they discuss the findings of this year’s design hackathon, sharing their aha moments. They dismantle assumptions about what other generations think Gen Zers want from their workplace — and use data and interviews to uncover what Gen Zers actually want, what inspires them, and how to capture their loyalty. Accredited for: IDCEC | 0.5 CEU After listening, you will be able to: Analyze how Gen Z is an arrow to the future of the design industry. Contrast how the assumptions about Gen Z differ from what the data revealed. Identify the five challenge areas for connecting with Gen Z. Implement solutions for each of those five challenges. In this episode, we dig into the findings of this year’s design hackathon, which included a survey of more than 1,800 designers, as well as more than 20 hours of focus groups on these topics. Specifically, we focus on the following challenge areas: culture, creativity, relationships, loyalty, and learning. Each area revealed crucial ways in which Gen Zers differs from previous generations. This ranged from the practical, such as which way they prefer to communicate (no calls, please!) to the more profound: Gen Zers consider both physical and digital to be part of one unbroken experience, instead of two distinct and separate ways to work. Alongside these insights, Schneider and Jenkins describe concrete actions that firms can take to integrate Gen Zers and take advantage of their fresh perspective. Quiz: Want CEU credit for listening? Click here to take the quiz, and earn your certificate of completion. How it works: Step 1: Listen to the episode. Step 2: Visit this link to take a short, 5-question quiz. Step 3: Upon passing the quiz, receive your certificate of completion. Look out for this at the end of the quiz. Step 4: No need to self-report, the provider of this episode will do so for you. A huge thank you to our Design Hackathon CEU partners who made this episode possible: Mannington, 3form, Allsteel, Material Bank, and Milliken. Visit here if you want them to bring these insights directly to your firm or if you want to take the digital on-demand CEU course. Connect with our expert guests on LinkedIn: Amanda Schneider Jessica Jenkins See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, presented by Delta Faucet Company, ThinkLab interviews Mike O’Neill, lead of data science research for the Gensler Research Institute, and Mitch Dalton, chief innovation officer at Core Spaces. O’Neill discusses shifts in how we currently use data, how that will change in the future, and which technologies will have the largest impact on the design industry. Dalton speaks about how to leverage data throughout the design and development process, and how designers’ inherent empathetic mindset can unlock data’s insights. Accredited for: IDCEC, AIA | 0.5 CEU/0.5 LU After listening, you will be able to: Contrast how we currently use data with how that will change in the future. Analyze the role of designer and researcher. Evaluate the two main types of data. Examine which technologies have the largest implications for our industry. Our first interviewee, Mike O'Neill, is leader of data science research for the Gensler Research Institute. He talks in detail about powerful new tools that are providing opportunities to analyze the complex interplay between people and their spaces. He urges designers to seek to understand these technologies better and also explains how designers and researchers can learn to meet in the middle. Our second interviewee, Mitch Dalton is chief innovation officer at Core Spaces, a national student housing developer, owner, and operator. He explains how the developer gathers data with the goal of building better places for people to live. By creating personas specific to their end users, the designers can understand more about who it is that they are actually designing for and map their day-to-day use of the space. Quiz: Want CEU credit for listening? Click here to take the quiz, and earn your certificate of completion. How it works: Step 1: Listen to the episode. Step 2: Sign in at this link to take a short, 5-question quiz. *Scoring an 80% or above on the quiz will earn you 0.5 CEU/0.5 LU. Step 3: Upon passing the quiz, receive your certificate of completion via email from CEU sponsor Delta Faucet Company. Connect with our expert guests on LinkedIn: Mike O’Neill Mitch Dalton See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

After listening, you will be able to: Identify key themes in material innovation. Contrast trends happening in the consumer goods space with those impacting the design industry. Analyze how sustainability is impacting product design in interiors. Examine how adaptability will be a key theme in the future. Material ConneXion is a material insights company working to connect product designers with the right materials for whatever they’re creating. Jennifer Gumpert is Material ConneXion’s VP of business operations, and Dr. Andrew Dent is its EVP of material research. They give an insider’s look on the latest material innovations, as well as emerging trends both in and outside the design industry, including “material-minded design.” Sustainability is becoming an ever-present concern, and Dent and Gumpert discuss the importance of working with both existing materials and simpler materials to keep environmental impact low. Gumpert also urges listeners to remember our shared responsibility around materials — as consumers, as specifiers, and as manufacturers. ​​ Quiz: Want CEU credit for listening? Click here to take the quiz, and earn your certificate of completion. How it works: Step 1: Listen to the episode. Step 2: Sign in at this link to take a short, 5-question quiz. *Scoring an 80% or above on the quiz will earn you 0.5 CEU/0.5 LU. Step 3: Upon passing the quiz, receive your certificate of completion via email from CEU sponsor Delta Faucet Company. Connect with our expert guests on LinkedIn: Andrew Dent Jennifer Gumpert See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, presented by Keilhauer, ThinkLab interviews designer Alanna Call and creativity researcher Keith Sawyer on how to foster the superpower of creativity and combat constraints on creative output. Accredited for: IDCEC, AIA | 0.5 CEU/0.5 LU After listening, you will be able to: 1. Identify the constraints happening in the world around us that are impacting creativity. 2. Assess how design teams can find creativity and innovation despite outside pressures. 3. Examine real-life examples of harnessing creativity “on demand” in projects. 4. Evaluate ways that groups can have the greatest creative output. Alanna Call is the creative lead and storyteller at CID Design Group. She identifies the external pressures that are making it difficult for creativity to flourish in the design industry. And she shares the unique ways in which how her hospitality and branding firm is cultivating creativity — including placing a special importance on research and future-proofing. Keith Sawyer is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a creativity researcher who has spent the past 10 years studying how people become designers and architects at universities. He describes common features of creative groups across disciplines and explains how four elements — technology, expectations, expertise, and deadlines — are currently constraining creativity. Quiz: Want CEU credit for listening? Click here to take the quiz, and earn your certificate of completion. How it works: Step 1: Listen to the episode. Step 2: Sign in at this link to take a short, 5-question quiz. * Scoring an 80% or above on the quiz will earn you 0.5 CEU/0.5 LU. Step 3: Upon passing the quiz, receive your certificate of completion via email from CEU sponsor Keilhauer. Connect with our expert guests on LinkedIn: Alanna Call Keith Sawyer Special thanks to our CEU episode sponsor, Keilhauer, for partnering with us to provide valuable insights on compelling topics for the design industry. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, presented by Mannington Commercial, ThinkLab interviews two experts in the emerging field of neuroaesthetics: Susan Magsamen, the director of Johns Hopkins’ International Arts + Mind Lab, and Suchi Reddy, architect and founder of Reddymade. They explain how neuroaesthetics can provide clues about how our bodies respond to design on a biological level. ThinkLab also speaks with David Rockwell, founder of Rockwell Group, who discusses his multidisciplinary approach to design, creating memorable experiences blending both theater and architecture. Accredited for: IDCEC, AIA | 0.5 CEU/0.5 LU After listening, you will be able to: 1. Identify what neuroaesthetics is and how it can be used in architecture and interiors. 2. Examine projects where neuroaesthetics and biometric data were used to inform participants’ unique experiences. 3. Evaluate how you can use data and technology in projects to measure experience and influence outcomes. 4. Point out the six ways that architecture can draw from theater in creating experience. Tune in as Magsamen and Reddy describe their unique exhibit, “A Space for Being,” hosted at Milan’s Salone del Mobile design fair. Their team designed three separate spaces, each evoking a different emotional experience by using contrasting visuals, sounds, and smells. Visitors wore a custom wristband that recorded their biometric data to see where they felt most at ease — with surprising results. Magsamen and Reddy discuss how these sorts of insights can influence design thinking and how to use new technology to innovate. Then, Rockwell shares his own perspective on what matters most when creating an engaging experience, whether in designing interiors or theater set design. His focus is on how stories are told and places are formed, and for great design in both fields, he recommends asking how you want the audience to feel. He also looks to the future and discusses his expectations for new forms of public spaces that will appear after the pandemic. Quiz: Want CEU credit for listening? Click here to take the quiz, and earn your certificate of completion. How it works: Step 1: Listen to the episode. Step 2: Sign in at this link to take a short, 5-question quiz. * Scoring an 80% or above on the quiz will earn you 0.5 CEU/0.5 LU. Step 3: Upon passing the quiz, receive your certificate of completion via email from CEU sponsor Mannington Commercial. Connect with our expert guests on LinkedIn: Susan Magsamen Suchi Reddy David Rockwell Special thanks to our CEU episode sponsor, Mannington Commercial, for partnering with us to provide valuable insights on compelling topics for the design industry. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Passion-driven people + a culture of overwork = the perfect recipe for burnout. ThinkLab’s Meredith Campbell interviews workplace and culture experts to share how you can reduce the risk of burnout, unlock creative problem solving and improve your work rhythm in this accredited CEU podcast episode. Accredited for: IDCEC, AIA | 0.5 CEU/0.5 LU After listening, you will be able to: • Analyze the six root causes of burnout • Identify the personality types and groups that tend to be most prone to burnout • Assess how leaders and organizations can combat burnout • Design your own performance cycles to work in harmony with creativity Jennifer Moss, author of the book The Burnout Epidemic, explores how a culture and legacy of overwork contribute to major burnout in the interior design industry. She describes how leaders need to recognize the standards they’re modeling for their employees, and shares findings from her research. Finally, Rahaf Harfoush, author of Humane Productivity, spells out the four stages of the creative process and gives her recommendations for countering “productivity propaganda.” She stresses the importance of protecting yourself from burnout by prioritizing rest, which is especially crucial for creatives. Quiz: Want CEU credit for listening? Click here to take the quiz and earn your certificate of completion. How it works: Step 1: Listen to the episode Step 2: Sign in at this link to take a short, 5 question quiz * Scoring an 80% or above on the quiz will earn you 0.5 CEU/0.5 LU Step 3: Upon passing the quiz, receive your certificate of completion via email from CEU sponsor Delta Faucets Connect with our speakers on LinkedIn: Faye Adams Jennifer Moss Rahaf Harfoush Special thanks to our CEU episode sponsor, Delta Faucet Company, for partnering with us to provide valuable insights on compelling topics for the design industry. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.