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2025 Design for Wellbeing Conference Schedule

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04/06/2025
  1. 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.
  2. The new office depart from traditional office modes, integrating leisure into the workspace. With user needs as a starting point, they aim to explore a more life-oriented open office space, providing a more comfortable and relaxed working experience for each user.
  3. 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 ...
  4. 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.

    - Emotion drives
    - Fun is functional
    - Interaction creates connections

  5. The new "McHappy Office" redefines the boundaries of the workplace. Create a meaningful and innovative destination that draws inspiration from the McDonald's retail experience, making the new space a quality office choice for top talent
  6. 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.

  7. 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 

  8. 1. Borderless Workflows: How AI dissolves physical constraints in hybrid workplaces, deploying intelligent collaboration systems to redefine the equilibrium between operational efficiency and human-centric experiences.

    2.Human-Machine Symbiosis: Examining AI agents as cognitive partners transforming job roles and team dynamics, while cultivating next-gen leadership models for human-AI co-creation.

    3. Living Workspaces: IoT and biosensing technologies enabling self-adaptive environments that dynamically respond to employees' cognitive states, forging workspaces as living organisms.

05/06/2025
  1. 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
     

  2. As a tangible and actionable driver of experience, The ‘hotelification’ of the workplace undoubtedly holds great potential to transform the office environment. By reimagining the work space from the perspective of hospitality, with service, comfort and convenience at its core, it is possible to create a dynamic ideal workplace that engages and motivates employees.
  3. 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.

  4. 1. Personal space and public space 

    2. Spatialize indentity

    3. As a part of company

  5. 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?
  6. 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
     

  7. 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
  8. 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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