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This section unveils the "Rebalance Initiative" – a visionary framework harmonizing technological advancement, sustainable practices, and human-centric design. Discover how interdisciplinary synergy can reshape innovation ecosystems, ensuring emerging technologies empower inclusive growth while nurturing planetary boundaries and societal wellbeing.
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Key Points:
1. Urban renewal and rural-urban integration are defining trends of our time. Architecture should actively respond by continuing the narrative of existing spaces.
2. The future of architecture lies beyond single-function physical spaces—it must break boundaries, embracing hybridity, openness, and multidimensional interactions.
3. The greatest significance of design is its social impact—creating spaces that enhance well-being while unlocking cultural, economic, and social potential.
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Say always prioritising user experience in designing office space, and aims to find a perfect balance between feasibility and comfort.Whether it’s an office inside a high-rise building or a vibrant green business district, Say concentrates on optimizing the sensory experience of the users within the working environment through thoughtful spatial layout and design.
1. Integrating the office into its surrounding nature
2. Blurring the traditional boundaries by allowing leisure activities and work to coexist in one space, creating a workspace that accommodates multiple functions
3. Balancing aesthetic and practical functionality, eliminating formalism, and ensuring the space serves its users
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During this speech, Diego will share insights into the concept of 'fun in functionality,' a guiding philosophy behind his work as both a designer and lecturer in Social Design. Attendees will be encouraged to envision more inclusive and interactive spaces that inspire creativity and reflection. Through case studies from his studio, Diego will showcase how their core design principles are applied to deliver unique and uncompromising solutions across diverse creative fields in pursuit of well-being.
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In today’s wave of workplace transformation, the office is no longer just a blueprint on paper—it has become a dynamic system of evolving work experiences. This session will explore:
1.From Fixed to Flexible: The shift from rigid workplace blueprints to flexible, adaptive transformation
2.Strategy Meets Technology: Using technology to drive smarter, adaptive work environments
3.Project Sharing: How space becomes a catalyst for experience innovation and organisational growth
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Case Study: a new prototype for the reuse of large floorplate office space in the heart of downtown San Francisco. The Covid pandemic has brought about a huge upheaval in how we think about the workpl ...
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In the current fast-paced, high-intensity working atmosphere in city life, working space has occupied more than one-third of people's time daily. The working space is not only the container medium for the group, but also another "third space" to connect and to remain people. While designing to tell a concept or mission, the design should also take the current and future people's spacial experience as the core thinking task, so that the bespoke suitable and comfortable working space will eco-sustainably enrich the space and people inside.
1. To create a pleasant working space with a design balance of passion and reason
2. To continuously enrich the space and people with flexible designs
3. To interpret each brand's uniqueness and cultural values
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1. Two-way shaping of space design and psychological experience
2. Explicit expression of cultural symbols and emotional connections
3. How to balance cost control and idealized design?
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In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the workplace is no longer just a functional space—it has become a catalyst for innovation, a reflection of corporate culture, and a driver of collaboration. This talk will explore how cutting-edge workplace design, from skyscrapers to high-tech campuses, from urban landmarks to interior environments, can create more flexible, diverse, and sustainable experiences for businesses and employees alike, unlocking new possibilities for innovation.
1. Expanding Boundaries: Integrating Outdoor Spaces
2. Redefining the Workplace: Enabling Industry Innovation
3. Human-Centered Design: Enhancing Workplace Appeal
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As Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) becomes a globally significant social agenda, architecture—as a producer of social space—is increasingly called upon to respond to these values. This lecture ...
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The speech focuses on the critical role of workplace design in enhancing the overall employee experience, emphasizing that workplace performance today is influenced not just by effectiveness but also by employee satisfaction and engagement. Additionally, addressing the DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) concept in future workplaces is essential for creating environments where all employees feel valued and included
1. The Workplace performance : Effectiveness and Experience
2. Role of DEI in Enhancing the Human Experience
3. Innovative design solutions for better experiences.
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1. Personal space and public space
2. Spatialize indentity
3. As a part of company
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Technology and green go hand in hand, this is the trend of the future development of workplace space. How can technology be utilized in the office environment to serve the employees? How to balance the development of office space with technology and nature? What does a truly green building look like? What is the special significance of green office space for enterprises?
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This talk explores sustainable workplace strategies in high-density urban environments through three projects: Ping An Asset Tower, ByteDance Headquarters, and Guohua Finance Center. Each illustrates ...
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Shanghai's new benchmark for sustainable design, exploring the green landscape
1. Sustainabillity features of One Museum Place
2. Hines ESG Programs
3. T3 - Future Technology for buildings
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THE SOURCE：The renovation of an existing high-rise tower demonstrates a remarkable example of urban regeneration and circular economy. A hybrid function and flexible work environment are integrated through a concept of work-life integration and a people-centred approach. The design features innovative elements, applies advanced energy efficiency technologies and a variety of renewable energy sources, and creates a new sustainable development model for urbanization
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Jeff now is a photographic artist, collaborating with Saint-Louis on a captivating photoexhibition in Hong Kong, He has captured the nature wonders, cultural heritage andexquisite craftsmanship of crystal making in Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche through hisunique and poetic camera lens. He will share his views on human-centered design from the perspective of an architect and photographer.
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1. How to measure health?
2. Architecture and neuroscience
3. Creating health through design
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Human health and wellbeing in tourism and hospitality is a priority by people among emerging trends. When creating destinations that reflect consumers' needs for this lifestyle and set of values, a holistic, highly user-centric, and immersive approach is essential, combining architectural, interior, and experiential design strategies. In Hannes’s speech, inspiring designs will be introduced, covering:
1. Cultivating Health: integration of design and wellness
2. Harmonizing architecture with nature for a unique, nature-oriented healthy experience
3. Design Re-thinking: sustainability and luxury, technology and experience
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1. Inspiration of future medical and health care planning for architectural design
2. Participatory planning and design
3. Improving human-centered health environment
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Starting from the overarching design philosophy of "Let Design Tend Towards Kindness, Let Form Follow Emotion," we can derive seven design strategies for health and wellness design: 1. Healing Sensory Design that Transcends Functional Health Experiences. 2. Transforming Functional Spaces into Sanctuaries of Health Rituals. 3. Evolving from Health Functionality to Emotional Inspiration. 4. Transitioning from Sleep Functionality to Rejuvenating Experiences. 5. Shifting from Therapeutic Functionality to Emotional Nourishment. 6. Designing Health with Temporal Dimensions in Mind. 7. Kind Design for Individuals with Special Needs.
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1. Using Playfulness to Ease Medical Anxiety
2. Using Science Communication to Bridge Doctor-Patient Understanding
3. Using Art to Evoke Emotional Resonance
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This topic focuses on the intersection of design studies, sociology, and the wellness industry, exploring how "human-centered design" can address the challenges of an aging society. It aims to provide innovative ideas for future wellness spaces that integrate functionality, emotional value, and sustainability.
1. Urban, Rural, or Community-Based Models?
2. Sustainability and Operational Models
3. Technology Empowerment and Human-Centered Experience
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