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Kay Sargent discusses how workspace design influences cognition and productivity for independent professionals.

Kay Sargent shows independent professionals how the space around them shapes their thinking, focus and recovery. Kay leads neuroinclusive design at the global firm HOK and wrote Designing Neuroinclusive Workplaces (Wiley), but her deeper argument is embodied cognition, the extended mind made concrete: the room is part of how you think, not a backdrop to it. She explains her six modalities of work, why each needs a higher-stimulation and a lower-stimulation version, and the pureeing prob...

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Host: Nigel Rawlins

Guest: Kay Sargent

Topics covered

• neuroinclusive design
• workspace design
• cognition
• independent professionals
• work modalities

Keywords

• neuroinclusive design
• workspace
• cognition
• independent professionals
• work modalities
• HOK
• Kay Sargent

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HOK

Books & works: Designing Neuroinclusive Workplaces

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