05.30.16 GIVING VOICE TO THOSE WHO CREATE WORKPLACE DESIGN & FURNISHINGS CITED: “IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL TO THINK THAT THE FUTURE IS UN- KNOWN AND SORT OF SURPRISING.” —ALAN RICKMAN Dreaming of NeoCon at KI Officeinsight publisher, Bob Beck, recently caught up with Shawn Green, Vice President of Design, Product Marketing and Pallas Textiles at KI to learn what they’re dreaming up for us at NeoCon 2016. With a new product line for “third spaces” called My Place, a bevy of new surface materials and colors and a whole new look for Pallas Textiles, KI plans to generate plenty of excitement at its 11th floor showroom. FULL STORY ON PAGE 3… NeoCon 2016 Preview – Part 1: Events & Education NeoCon, North America’s largest design expo and conference for commercial interiors, returns June 13-15 to Chicago’s Merchan- dise Mart for its 48 th year. At officeinsight, we continue our tradi- tion of offering readers a series of articles revolving around the upcoming show. This week, check out our NeoCon 2016 Pre- view – Part 1: Events & Education, where we highlight a selection of events and exhibits, schedule highlights at-a-glance, keynote speaker information, association forums and special events, student activities, educational seminars and available tours. FULL STORY ON PAGE 11… Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Spaces for Groups! A group needs a truly private space they can claim as their own – a territory – if they’re going to do their best work together. When groups have a territory they become a more cohesive unit, which is particularly handy when they face challenges. Employ- ees work better on tasks, tactical and strategic, when they feel closer connections to their teammates. officeinsight columnist Sally Augustin explores how interior architects and designers can best fashion these private group spaces. FULL STORY ON PAGE 30…
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05.30.16 GIVING VOICE TO THOSE WHO CREATE WORKPLACE DESIGN & FURNISHINGS
CITED:“IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL TO THINK THAT THE FUTURE IS UN-KNOWN AND SORT OF SURPRISING.” —ALAN RICKMAN
Dreaming of NeoCon at KI
Officeinsight publisher, Bob Beck, recently caught up with Shawn Green, Vice President of Design, Product Marketing and Pallas Textiles at KI to learn what they’re dreaming up for us at NeoCon 2016. With a new product line for “third spaces” called My Place, a bevy of new surface materials and colors and a whole new look for Pallas Textiles, KI plans to generate plenty of excitement at its 11th floor showroom.
FULL STORY ON PAGE 3…
NeoCon 2016 Preview – Part 1: Events & Education
NeoCon, North America’s largest design expo and conference for commercial interiors, returns June 13-15 to Chicago’s Merchan-dise Mart for its 48th year. At officeinsight, we continue our tradi-tion of offering readers a series of articles revolving around the upcoming show. This week, check out our NeoCon 2016 Pre-view – Part 1: Events & Education, where we highlight a selection of events and exhibits, schedule highlights at-a-glance, keynote speaker information, association forums and special events, student activities, educational seminars and available tours.
FULL STORY ON PAGE 11…
Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Spaces for Groups!
A group needs a truly private space they can claim as their own – a territory – if they’re going to do their best work together. When groups have a territory they become a more cohesive unit, which is particularly handy when they face challenges. Employ-ees work better on tasks, tactical and strategic, when they feel closer connections to their teammates. officeinsight columnist Sally Augustin explores how interior architects and designers can best fashion these private group spaces.
FULL STORY ON PAGE 30…
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Dōni Seating Collection in custom colors. Photography: Courtesy of KI
I recently had a chance to catch up with Shawn Green, Vice President of Design, Product Marketing and Pallas Textiles at KI to learn what they are dreaming up for us at NeoCon this year.
Bob Beck (BB): If you don’t mind, I’d like to start with a bit of follow up on what has happened to the prod-ucts you launched last year. What’s up with Dōni Seating, designed by my good friend Giancarlo Piretti.
Shawn Green (SG): The Dōni Seating Collection celebrates color and comfort. The goal was to create a comprehen-sive seating solution that would offer endless design freedom and superior comfort. The result is an articulating chair that delivers exceptional comfort and unlimited design opportunities. As you know, Giancarlo Piretti has been designing articulating and stacking chairs for KI for decades now and we think Dōni is his masterwork. It has the
fluid appearance of a single-piece shell, but is actually a two-piece shell with hip-articulation and body-conforming curves. Dōni’s simple mechanism pro-vides 17-degrees of backrest articula-tion and movement throughout the day.
We were able to achieve this com-bination of articulation with a huge number of standard color options using a sophisticated two-shot injec-tion molding process. KI is the only manufacturer in the United States to
Dreaming of NeoCon at KIBy Bob Beck
Shawn Green Base options and custom colors of the Dōni Seating Collection
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neoconoffer this two-shot process. This results in a fused single piece with two colors, which significantly increases color and design options and we’ve taken it a step further by offering custom colors for larger orders.
So at NeoCon last year we unveiled the chair with it’s articulating back and an indication of where we were head-ing with the collection. This year we’ll be there with the full family, including tandem seating and some exciting base and finish option. From the reac-tion we’ve had so far, we know this is going to be our next huge product for classroom applications. Especially in combination with the Pirouette Table, also designed by Giancarlo Piretti.
BB: Last year you were awarded a Best of NeoCon Gold for the Evoke Architectural Wall system as an alter-native to drywall interior construction. How has it been accepted and what’s new with it.
SG: Evoke is doing very well. We just won a major, major project with Evoke and the key to that win was changing the paradigm around the walls. Normal-ly when contract furniture manufactur-ers produce walls, they have a tendency to build-in a lot of attributes that are associated with panel systems. So in es-sence they’re making a tall panel going floor to ceiling and then finding clever ways to block sound or to increase the sound transmission coefficient.
We took a step back and said the key here is that people don’t walk into a building and say, ‘Wow, that’s some great-looking drywall.’ If walls are done well, they really should be passive elements within a space, I think a lot of the pushback we heard with some of our legacy products about base condi-tions being thick or corner conditions and so forth, was because architects were wishing and hoping that the modular walls could be modular but look like stick-built construction. And I think that’s what we’ve done through
The Two-color version of Dōni, shown with the Pirouette Table
Dōni and Pirouette in typical classroom application
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our Evoke platform approach with our unitized construction and our design focus on creating a passive visual. Then we extended that thinking to Lightline, our storefront solution. Evoke and Lightline together give the wonderful look, the simple beauty of a stick-built aesthetic, without compro-mising the utility or functionality.
We think Evoke is a new paradigm in movable wall and permanent construc-tion. It is more adaptable, seamless, movable, affordable, and creates quiet-er spaces than any wall system before it. It renders drywall virtually obsolete. Evoke installs quickly and easily. It can be painted and accessorized on site. We also offer inkjet printing on Evoke panels to feature unlimited textures, finishes or custom graphics.
This year we’ll be introducing a clerestory option to Evoke. A glass transom, the clerestory option brings natural light into the space while main-taining visual and acoustic privacy.
Evoke Architectural Wall with clerestory option
Evoke Architectural Wall with Lightline glass storefront
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neoconEvoke uses ½” glazing to maintain its best-in-class STC value. It upholds the nearly seamless aesthetic we achieved with Evoke by using a seamless verti-cal mullion.
For Lightline we’re introducing a freeform option, a new way to create faceted curves and angles. Freeform Lightline allows for angles ranging from 90-180 degrees using standard panels and a clear rigid dry-seal connection while maintaining vertical panel height adjustability. Lightline offers a seam-less glass architectural wall solution with passive, light construction to sup-port natural daylighting. Lightline inte-grates both freestanding furniture and permanent construction to unify space and provide an attractive aesthetic throughout a variety of environments.
BB: Ok. That all sounds good, but now on to what’s entirely new.
SG: We’re incredibly keen now on understanding what we’ve been calling ‘third space.’ By that we refer to the ancillary spaces such as the lobby lounge areas or the café spaces that have been secondary and tertiary from a work process standpoint. Recently, however, we’ve seen them evolve into first space or primary space in terms of how people really want to work, learn, live, congregate and so forth. So we are introducing a new concept called My Place. It’s an amalgama-tion of softer seating elements like big ottomans and geometric shapes that you’re starting to see in libraries and airport spaces and so forth. We’re combining that with space division elements and stepping into a category that we feel weds sort of the systems mentality with the third space lounge attributes to create a new way of look-ing at third space.
The old ways of looking at work pro-cess and planning for space aren’t re-ally being embraced today. In the past companies would try to drive an ROI, looking at the dollars per white-collar My Place
Freeform Lightline
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neoconworker, and trying to maximize the density – trying to really leverage the real estate. But space is much more fluid now as jobs become less task-specific and rely more on creativity and interaction with other employees. So we have to create products that are going to bridge that gap and allow for and embrace that level of flexibility.
My Place allows you to work, relax, learn, focus, socialize, and collaborate in environments tailored to your needs. It offers power at your fingertips, providing power throughout an entire lounge area. Varying panel heights create levels of privacy and space differentiation. 48” panels can be used to divide space without inhibiting communication; 64” high panels in-crease privacy levels. MyPlace creates
functional spaces anywhere, within offices, classrooms, public spaces and lounges. And that’s what our show-room is going to be about this year, the entire space is going to be about creating higher levels of engagement, higher levels of interaction, but still providing areas within the space where you can go to relax or focus as you need at any particular time.
BB: Anything else you’d like to mention?
SG: Well I could go on and on, but I think that covers most of it. I would mention that the showroom will feature a lot of the work we’ve been doing around surface materials and finishes, especially in the Pallas Textile arena. We think people will be very pleased
with the new textiles and finish options and we’re excited to feature them in the design of the showroom.
We’ll also debut a host of enhance-ments to our Connection Zone col-lection, including Café height teaming tables, frameless privacy screens to offer a lighter aesthetic and open sight lines, privacy screens that provide heightened privacy and also support shelves and cubbies, benching bases featuring telescoping beams for expan-sion or compression, mobile screens with magnetic steel inserts, optional bul-letin boards, and tackable fabric inserts.
BB: Tell Dick Resch I look forward to his usual friendly greeting at the front of the showroom. I’ll see you in Chicago in two weeks! n
Connection Zone
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NeoCon, North America’s largest design expo and confer-ence for commercial interiors, returns June 13-15 to Chi-cago’s Merchandise Mart for its 48th year. Organizers expect the number of architecture and design professionals attend-ing the show will equal or exceed last year’s attendance of more than 50,000. Attendees can tailor their conference experience to specific areas of interest, experience level, schedule, and spending goals by choosing à la carte from the menu of 100+ CEU seminars, featured programs and association forums.
Once registered for NeoCon at www.neocon.com (free online registration through Friday, June 10 or $25 on-site), attendees can sign up for My Planner to search exhibitors and new products, create a personalized itinerary, map out custom floor plans, and even send private messages to exhibitors. Also, the NeoCon App is available through the App Store and Google Play.
Voting for Interior Design’s HiP at NeoCon (Honoring Industry People and Product) awards at idhipawards.com closes this Thursday, June 2. The HiP awards honor commercial industry people and products in workplace, hospitality, health and wellness, and education/government/institutional market sectors. Winners and honorees will be announced on Sunday, June 12, with the HiP, HiP Hooray Celebration scheduled for Tuesday, June 14.
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All of the products entered in Contract magazine’s Best of NeoCon competition are now available for viewing at www.contract-network.com. More than 40 jurors who are interior designers, architects and facilities management professionals will review the products over three days before NeoCon begins, and winners will be named at the Best of Neocon Award Winners’ Breakfast on Monday, June 13.
Other awards programs include the IIDA/Contract Maga-zine Showroom & Booth Design Competition and BUILD-INGS magazine’s Product Innovations Awards.
Special NeoCon exhibits and features at the Merchan-dise Mart this year include:
>ASID Welcome Center, 1st Floor, West Pass-Thru. ASID welcomes visitors to NeoCon 2016 by encouraging a healthy Neocon experience, physically, mentally and socially. The booth will showcase how design impacts lives.
>Best of NeoCon Wall, 1st Floor, North Corridor. Contract Magazine’s Best of NeoCon presentation will feature the most important and influential new product innovations in more than 40 product categories.
>BuzziLounge, 1st Floor, East Pass-Thru. BuzziSpace invites NeoCon attendees to recharge with a playful pick-me-up. Attractions include BuzziBalance, designed in col-laboration with 13&9’s Martin Lesjak and Anastasia Su, and BuzziJungle, an elevated work-lounge concept by emerging designer Jonas Van Put, which offers a bird’s-eye view of the fair.
>Design Center, Floors 6, 14, 15, 16. The Design Center at The Mart is the world’s largest resource for custom home furnishings and interior design, with more than 100 show-rooms for luxury furniture, fabrics, floor and wall coverings, lighting, outdoor and casual furnishings, accessories, an-tiques, art and more. Learn more at www.designcenter.com.
>Herman Miller Plaza, 1st Floor, South Lobby. Herman Miller offers a place to pause, connect, and revive in a vibrant setting outfitted with its dynamic range of furnish-ings – from iconic classics reimagined in fresh materials, to brand new designs that redefine comfort in the workplace.
>IdeaPaint ThinkTank Anywhere, 1st Floor, North Cor-ridor; 7th Floor, 7-3069. An innovator in dry erase paint and accessories, Idea Paint is launching a new mobile collabo-ration system designed in partnership with Primo Orpilla of Studio O+A. It will also highlight its magnetic PULL system, plus products still “in the lab.” Visitors are invited to “Come play, engage and leave your mark!”
>IIDA Effect/Affect, 1st Floor, Starbucks Escalator. De-signed by the San Francisco-based, award-winning design firm Studio O+A, IIDA Effect/Affect explores how a designed space evolves as people move through it and leave their mark on the built environment.
>Interiors & Sources Materials Pavilion, 7th Floor, 7-1000. Presented by Interiors & Sources magazine, this is the destination for NeoCon attendees seeking more in the area of materials, product ideas and inspiration. Hundreds of material samples are displayed side-by-side, with details on their origin, makeup and recommended applications. It is curated by the I+S editorial team and design historian and materials specialist Grace Jeffers, and populated with the help of Material Intelligence, www.materialintelligence.com.
>LuxeHome, 1st Floor. Many of the boutiques at Lux-eHome, the world’s largest collection of premier boutiques for home building and renovation, will host special events during NeoCon. For more information, please visit http://luxehome.com/neocon2016/.
>Mayer Fabrics – The Vollis Simpson Collection, 1st Floor, North Corridor; 11th Floor, 1173. Inspired by visionary American folk artist Vollis Simpson, Mayer Fabrics’ exclusive new collection of Sunbrella® Contract captures the whimsy, joy and intricate designs of Simpson’s work.
>Mohawk Group & INSTALL – Expand Your Boundaries, 1st Floor, North Corridor. Mohawk Group and floor covering installation training and certification leader INSTALL will demonstrate new and innovative installation techniques, including floating carpet tile installations with FlexLok tabs and loose lay LVT.
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neocon>Mohawk Group – Expand Your Boundaries, 1st Floor,
Kinzie Wells Entrance; 3rd Floor, 377. Taking the perspective of an aerial photograph, Earth to Sky carpet tiles evoke the rich topography of the world and its vanishing point into an endless sky.
>New Talent Spotlight: Five Designers to Watch, 1st Floor. Metropolis, in partnership with NeoCon, will debut five new talents in a curated installation. Each new talent will display three to five objects of design, following Metropolis’s at-all-scales approach. This group of innovators will also be featured in the Metropolis June issue.
>Snowsound Call Zones, 7th Floor, Pass-Thrus. Snow-sound offers a moment of Italian-inspired peace and quiet
on the 7th floor between main aisles 5000 and 6000. Walls lined with Snowsound Cubbies in two locations provide private acoustic call zones for attendees. Snowsound’s main booth, 7-4022 will serve espresso and introduction to five new design solutions.
>Wolf-Gordon “Office_Excavate”, 1st Floor, Center Pass-Thru. Wolf-Gordon will present an imaginative rethinking of workplace interactions with Office_Excavate, a recharg-ing and gathering space deconstructed from the formerly cubicle-driven office block. More than 100 textiles, arrayed by color, are upholstered to a grotto-like seating area and to asymmetrical forms, extracted from the “block,” that can be positioned as desktops, tables and stools.
Schedule Highlights At-a-Glance Saturday, June 116:30pm-Midnight – DIFFA/Chicago Believe 2016 Gala, The Illumination Ball
Sunday, June 1210:00am-2:00pm – Workshop: Understanding the WELL Building Standard 1:00-2:30pm – IIDA 2016 Annual Meeting7:00-11:00pm – IIDA COOL Awards Gala
Monday, June 137:30-8:30am – 2016 Best of NeoCon Award Winners’ Breakfast 8:00am – Keynote: Paul Scialla11:30am-2:00pm – ASID Illinois Chapter Annual NeoCon Luncheon 3:00-4:00pm – IIDA Salone Del Mobile, Milano 2017 Preview 5:00-7:00pm – Showroom Parties
Tuesday, June 168:00am – Keynote: David Rockwell9:00am-5:00pm – IIDA Student Design Charette 9:00am-7:00pm – Guerrilla Truck Show @ NeoCon 1:00pm – ASID Interior Design Outlook and State of the Industry News Conference1:45-4:00pm – ASID Student Roadmap 3:00-5:00pm – Booth Parties5:00-7:00pm – Interior Design’s HiP HiP Hooray Celebration
Wednesday, June 177:00-8:55am – BIFMA Annual Membership Meeting 8:00-9:00am – Vinyl in Design: Solutions in Healthcare, an Association Event9:00am – Keynote: Oana Stanescu10:30am-Noon – IIDA Career Bootcamp1:00-2:30pm – ASID Career Exchange
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neoconA complete list of speakers, exhibits, seminars and spe-
cial attractions can be found at www.neocon.com, but here are some highlights:
KEYNOTE SPEAKERSKeynotes are free to attend for NeoCon 2015 attendees.
However, seating is limited and registration is required (http://www.neocon.com/programming/keynotes). All keynotes will be held at Holiday Inn Mart Plaza, 14th Floor, Sauganash Ballroom.
>Monday, June 13, 8:00am Paul Scialla, sponsored By ASID. After 18 years on Wall Street, including 10 at Gold-man Sachs as a partner, Paul Scialla’s interest in altruis-tic capitalism and sustainability led him to establish the International WELL Building Institute, which administers the WELL Building Standard® globally to improve human health and wellbeing through the built environment (www.WELLcertified.com). Since IWBI’s inception, Mr. Scialla has become a leading voice in the sustainability movement. In his presentation, Scialla will share emerging innovations and evidence-based research about how we can design build-ings specifically to support the health and wellness of the people who live, work and learn in them. [K1]
>Tuesday, June 14, 8:00am David Rockwell, sponsored By Knoll and IIDA. David Rockwell, FAIA, is the founder and president of Rockwell Group, an interdisciplinary archi-tecture and design firm based in New York with offices in Madrid and Shanghai. Rockwell Group merges architecture,
theater, craftsmanship and technology to create narra-tives for its work, including hospitality, cultural institutions, offices, transportation, residential, set design, products, exhibitions and festivals. Immediately following the keynote, IIDA will host a book signing with Mr. Rockwell and his new book, “What If? The Architecture and Design of David Rockwell.” A limited number of books will be available for purchase at the book signing. [K2]
>Wednesday, June 15, 9:00am, Oana Stanescu, spon-sored By AIA Chicago. Oana Stanescu is a partner of Family and has used her vast international experience to lead the office’s European projects. Prior to joining Fam-ily, she worked at a diverse array of award-winning offices
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neoconaround the world including Herzog and De Meuron, OMA and SANAA. She has also contributed to numerous archi-tectural publications such as Domus, MARK and Abitare and co-taught a seminar at the Graduate School of Archi-tecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. She currently is involved in the +Pool project in New York, a Kickstarter-backed endeavor that involves installing a cross-shaped floating swimming pool in the East River, and has also worked with Kanye West on both tour sets and personal residential projects. [K3]
ASSOCIATION FORUMS AND SPECIAL EVENTS>Saturday, June 11, 6:30pm-Midnight DIFFA/Chicago
Believe 2016 Gala, The Illumination Ball, Chicago Mar-riot Downtown Magnificent Mile, Grand Ballroom. Industry leaders and design enthusiasts from around the world will come together at this multi-faceted black-tie event for a high energy evening of elegant dining, cocktails, dancing and powerful performances. A live auction and raffle ben-efits Chicago-area service agencies that provide assistance, education and outreach to those living with HIV/AIDS. For more information or tickets, please call 312.644.6412 or visit www.diffachicago.org/believe2016.
>Sunday, June 12, 10:00am-2:00pm Workshop: Un-derstanding the WELL Building Standard, Merchandise Mart – 14th Floor, Room 1447. Hosted by USGBC-Illinois and NeoCon, this pre-conference workshop introduces the intent, key elements and requirements of the WELL Building Standard®. For those seeking to become WELL Accredited Professionals this workshop helps to prepare for the WELL AP exam. Instructor is Whitney Austin Grey, PhD of Delos in NYC. http://admin.usgbc-illinois.org/event-2184841
>Sunday, June 12, 1:00-2:30pm IIDA Annual Meet-ing, Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave. IIDA invites current members and their guests to attend this meeting to honor the 2016-2018 International Board of Directors, the 2016 College of Fellows inductees, the recipients of the Star and Titan awards, and the Educator, Member, Student, and Chapters of the Year, and recognize the recipient of the Distinguished Leadership Award. VIP reception sponsored by Vitra to follow. Email RSVP: [email protected] by Friday, June 3.
>Sunday, June 12, 7:00-11:00pm IIDA COOL Awards Gala, The Ritz Carlton Chicago, 160 E. Pearson St. The annual IIDA NeoCon black-tie gala celebration is a special evening to honor the winners of two of the most prestigious competitions in the Interior Design profession – the 43rd An-nual Interior Design Competition and the 24th Annual Will Ching Design Competition. RSVP: Email Aisha Williams at [email protected] or visit www.iida.org/content.cfm/iida-cool-gala
>Monday, June 13, 7:30am 2016 Best of NeoCon Award Winners’ Breakfast, The Renaissance Hotel, One West Wacker Dr. The Best of NeoCon 2016 winners will be announced among industry peers on the opening morning of NeoCon at Contract magazine’s annual Best of NeoCon Breakfast. The competition honors the best new com-mercial interiors products exhibited in The Mart during NeoCon. Honors include Gold and Silver Awards, as well as Innovation Awards, Editors’ Choice Awards, and one Best of Competition Award. Tickets may be purchased at www.contract-network.com until a week before the event.
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neocon>Monday, June 13, 11:30am-2:00pm ASID Illinois Neo-
con Luncheon, Pella Crafted Luxury Showroom, Merchan-dise Mart, Suite 100. ASID Illinois Chapter is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Its annual NeoCon luncheon includes ASID updates as well as lunch and social time. RSVP required: http://asidillinois.com/news-events/events/neocon-luncheon-2/
>Monday, June 13, 3:00-4:00pm IIDA Salone Del Mo-bile, Milano 2017 Preview, IIDA Headquarters, Merchan-dise Mart, Suite 567. Presented by the Italian American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) Chicago Chapter, in col-laboration with IIDA and AIA Chicago Chapter, the preview includes a presentation of Workplace 3.0/Salone Ufficio, “A Joyful Sense at Work.” RSVP: Email [email protected] by June 6
>Monday, June 13, 5:00-7:00pm Showroom Parties, Floors 1, 3, 10 and 11. The momentum of NeoCon will be in full swing on Monday night. Showroom-hop to see new products, network, and wine and dine with colleagues and friends from the industry in select showrooms.
>Tuesday, June 13, 1:00pm ASID Interior Design Out-look and State of the Industry News Conference, Room 7B. The ASID research department will present a look at the state of the interior design industry through the lens of the factors in our environment – global, business, and culture – that affect the individual designer, and thus, the work that they ultimately produce.
>Tuesday, June 14, 3:00-5:00pm Booth Parties, 7th Floor. More cocktails, conversations and contacts await as the NeoCon energy and festivities continue on the 7th floor. Mix and mingle with A&D professionals while exploring hundreds of exhibitors from around the world.
>Tuesday, June 14, 5:00-7:00pm Interior Design’s HiP HiP Hooray Celebration, The Mart, South Drive. Celebrat-ing the 2016 HiP winners and honorees, the festivities will feature a fiesta of Chicago food, drink and live music. Tickets available online at https://hiphiphooray2016.splashthat.com/ until 1:00pm on June 14 for $35; or at the dor for $40.
>Tuesday, June 14, 9:00am-7:00pm Guerrilla Truck Show @ NeoCon. The Mart, South Drive. Supported by Gensler and Skender; free admission. This is a satellite ver-sion of the ultra-popular emerging design event produced by Morlen Sinoway which ran in Chicago’s Fulton Market for 10 years. Morlen Sinoway will curate a selection of 10 up-and-comers showcasing prototype work and objects of design in the back of box trucks.
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neocon>Wednesday, June 15, 7:00-7:40am (breakfast) and
7:40-8:55am (meeting) BIFMA Annual Membership Meeting, Holiday Inn Mart Plaza; Wolf Point Ballroom (15th Floor). BIFMA members and invited guests are encouraged to attend the Association’s Annual Membership Meeting to hear the state-of-the-industry and state-of-the-association reports. For more information, contact BIFMA at (616) 285-3963 or visit www.bifma.org.
>Wednesday, June 15, 8:00-9:00am Vinyl in Design: Solutions in Healthcare, Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza, Western Stage House – 14th Floor. This free event, which includes breakfast prior to the program, is presented by The Vinyl Institute to familiarize architects and designers with the wide range of design solutions vinyl products can provide in today’s healthcare environments. Attendees will earn .1 CEU credit through IDCEC upon completion. For more information, contact the Chemical Fabrics and Film Association at 216-241-7333 or [email protected]
STUDENT ACTIVITIESThe Student Program at NeoCon is designed exclusively
for interior design and architecture students. Students are also invited to register onsite for any one-hour CEU accred-ited program offered on Wednesday, June 15, at discounted a rate of $25, subject to availability. For more information, please visit www.neocon.com/programming/student-pro-grams.
>Tuesday, June 14, 9:00am-5:00pm IIDA Student Design Charette (charette is 9:30am-3:00pm; presenta-tions and judging 3:00-5:00pm), The Mart, Floor 2, Suite 228. Watch school-nominated IIDA Student Members from around the country team up and compete in this live, onsite competition. Students have less than six hours to develop a design solution, develop a presentation, and pitch their concept to a panel of esteemed judges. Winners will be announced at the winner’s reception on Wednesday, June 15 offsite.
>Tuesday, June 14, 1:45-4:00pm ASID Student Road-map, The Mart, meet at the ASID Space located in the West Pass Through (Floor 1). Exclusively for ASID student members, this is a curated tour of NeoCon with professional designers. Students will meet with tour leaders and be guided to pick up badges, navigate the show floor, and meet with exhibitors. Space is limited. Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/asid-career-exchange-student-roadmap-neocon-tickets-24992861321
>Wednesday, June 15, 10:30am-Noon IIDA Career Bootcamp™ – Beyond the Degree: How to Build a Strong Foundation for Your Interior Design Career, The Mart, Floor 2, Suite 228. Recent graduates will learn from a panel of professionals the advice they would give their younger selves – from what firms are looking for in entry level designers and the trends that are driving industry hiring practices to how to score internships, build meaningful re-lationships with mentors, and wow potential employers with a resume and portfolio that will stand out from the crowd. [SP1]
>Wednesday, June 15, 1:00-2:30pm ASID Career Ex-change, The Mart, Floor 2, Suite 228. Students and recent graduates are invited to connect with design professionals and industry representatives for one-on-one networking opportunities. Within 90 minutes, participants will engage in multiple 10-minute conversations with reviewers to learn about the interior design profession, or to receive a resume or portfolio critique. [SP2]
EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS
Seminar sessions are priced at $55 each, if pre-registered by Friday, June 10, or $65 each if registered on-site, subject to availability. All are being reviewed for continuing education accreditation for 0.1 CEU or 1 LU each. Some will also qualify for GBCI hours toward the LEED Credential Maintenance Program; LEU credits for the Lighting Certified professional; or EDAC CEU credit for healthcare designers. The complete schedule, available at http://neocon.martreg.com/?sem
http://neocon.com/programming/ceu-seminars, can be filtered online by topics of interest. Here is our selection of some of the courses offered:
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neocon>Monday, June 13, 9:30-10:30am Pushing to Wow!
Building Trust for Bold Workplace Innovation. [Intermedi-ate] Amy Manley, national director, workplace strategies at Jacobs in Philadelphia, and Ellen Keable, principal, workplace strategies at Jacobs in Buffalo, NY, will present a case study of a 300-person pilot for a health care solutions company that leveraged internal mobility, increased choice, improved technology, work setting variety, and clear zoning. They will share which work and furniture characteristics worked well and which did not, with tips on building trust, measuring success, and embracing a new approach to workplace change using design research, benchmarking, inspiration and employee engagement. [M100]
>Monday, June 13, 9:30-10:30am Higher Expectations for Higher Education – Designing for 21st Century Learn-ing. [Basic] From CBT Architects in Boston, principals Paul Viccica and Christopher Hill with director of interior design Lois Goodell will explore non-traditional learning environments that are transforming the 21st century college campus. Using engaging case studies, they will address how changes in pedagogy, technology, and learning needs are augmenting space standards and the college campus; and will identify how space design, change management, technology and furniture solutions can define the new stu-dent experience. [M102]
>Monday, June 13, 9:30-10:30am Beyond Stereo-types: Getting Real About Different Generations in the Workplace. [Intermediate] We have a solid four – and increasingly five – generations in the workplace. Design-ers, consultants and media have labeled these groups with characteristics for the sake of discussion and planning. But how far do stereotypes get us? This intergenerational panel – Stephanie Douglass, director, workplace strategy at Teknion, Hartford, CT; Arnold Levin, principal, workplace strategy, at Smith Group JJR in Washington, DC; and Clau-dia Parra, design student at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY – will go beyond generalizations and “get real” about designing environments for a wide range of users. [M105]
>Monday, June 13, 11:00am-Noon Color Evolution: Changing Future Trends. [Intermediate] Leatrice Eise-man, the executive director of the Pantone Color Institute in Bainbridge Island, WA, will share some of the latest changes in color usage and trend direction based on the constant evolution of society. [M107]
>Monday, June 13, 11:00am-Noon The Free Range Workplace. [Intermediate] From Gensler’s Houston office, principal Dean Strombom and regional director of consult-ing Sven Govaars will explore the idea of quality of work and quality of life from the user-centered design perspective. Noting that only one in four U.S. workers are in optimal workplace environments, and less than half of them work in
a place they feel proud, purposeful, and engaged, they will discuss 10 key design factors and enumerate ten “experi-ence factors” that make a difference, humanizing the cost of real estate to create leverage for good workplace design. [M112]
>Monday, June 13, 1:00-2:00pm A Human Centered Design Partnership: Workplace Strategy and Lean. [Advanced] Workplace strategy and lean are different ap-proaches to programming that share many concepts, but are often siloed in practice. From ZGF Architects in Seattle, Timothy Deak, workplace strategist; Harris Levitt, associate partner, interior designer; and Barbara Anderson, princi-pal, propose that collaborating across these two paradigms strongly advances user-centered design. Based on their collective experience and knowledge, they will present an expanded view of design thinking, in which projects can combine both these approaches for great results. [M115]
>Monday, June 13, 1:00-2:00pm Do This, Not That: Daylighting Design Choices. [Intermediate] With the in-creased presence of glass facades, it is imperative to specify proper glare control devices. There is a lot to consider in shade cloth selection – immediate safety, long-term safety, cost, aesthetics and sustainability. Rachel Berman, sustain-ability program manager, and Susan Rieser, vice president, at MechoSystems in Long Island City, NY, will demonstrate the best paths for achieving optimal daylight in a space and how to leverage a textile’s solar optical properties as a tool. [M117]
>Monday, June 13, 1:00-2:00pm A CFO, a CIO, an FM, and a CHRO Walk Into an Office: Serious Workplace Impact. [Advanced] The CEO, CFO, CIO, CHRO and FM all value and view the office from different perspectives. According to Diane Levine, founder and managing partner, and Susan Wiener, managing partner, at Workplace Man-agement Solutions in Long Beach, CA, inclusion of each of these visions is critical to creating a workplace that engages employees, saves money and increases productivity. They will share studies that show how actionable intelligence has surprised CEOs and created C-suite worthy stories that drove effective workplace change. [M119]
>Monday, June 13, 2:30-3:30pm Leveraging Neurosci-ence for Focus, Creativity and Learning. [Advanced] Jamie Flatt, principal with Page Southerland Page in Houston; Patrick McCarthy, architect with SmithGroupJJR in Wash-ington, DC; and Nadia Borras Markovic, interior design director at Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos in Mexico City, will present results of a fascinating study that shows what amazing things we can do using design thinking methods and our understanding of neuroscience principals. They will show how to support focus through enabling better change management; how to facilitate creativity through an
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neoconevolution of the existing corporate culture; and how to allow greater learning through a shift in organizational culture. [M121]
>Monday, June 13, 2:30-3:30pm Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Drones) in Professional Design Practice. [Basic] Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used in military applica-tions and agriculture or infrastructure monitoring also have a place in design professions, according to Nathan Bicak, assistant professor of design, and Holly Cline, professor and department of design chair at Radford University in Radford, VA. They will show how piloting a UAV outside or inside a building allows designers to analyze a project from otherwise impossible angles and vantages, and how to inte-grate UAV footage with CAD and 3-D renderings. [M123]
>Monday, June 13, 2:30-3:30pm Integrative Design Team Using Evidence-Based Approach. [Intermediate] Fol-lowing a case study, this seminar will examine the evidence-based design process from benchmarking and developing measurable goals to post-occupancy success. Presenters are Lisa Whited, chief transformation officer at Workplace Transformation Facilitation Inc. in Portland, ME, and Caren Martin, principal at Martin & Guerin Design Research in Minneapolis. [M124]
>Monday, June 13, 2:30-3:30pm Journey to Workplace Health and Wellness Through Design. [Intermediate] ASID research analyst Susan Chung, ASID CEO Randy Fiser, and Perkins+Will senior technical coordinator David Cordell will use the case study of ASID’s new office Washington, DC office to show the importance of design in occupant wellbeing. This design journey used real data to evaluate organizational behavior, applied LEED and WELL building design standards to create a healthy work environment, and followed the protocols that support a culture of wellness. [M126]
>Monday, June 13, 4:00-5:00pm Brand and Develop-ing the Interior Design Story. [Advanced] Presented by Joan Blumenfield, firmwide design director for interiors at Perkins+Will in NYC; Keith Curtis, principal, branded environments at Perkins+Will in Atlanta; and Eileen Jones, principal at Perkins+Will in Chicago, this seminar will teach how to develop an overall brand strategy with clients that will be applicable across projects and markets. It will examine in detail the necessary collaboration between cli-ent and designer for producing vibrant, fresh, and highly branded spaces in a consistent and recognizable way that is a powerful representation of the company’s vision, mission and goals. [M128]
>Tuesday, June 14, 9:30-10:30am Insight Rooms: Bold New Executive Spaces for Visualization, Insight, and Faster Decisions. [Intermediate] Xavier Barrera, vice presi-dent, professional and technology services at Prysm in San Jose, CA, promises to challenge much of today’s thinking about in-room and virtual meeting collaboration with a new type of space called the Insight Room. From small team huddle rooms to the executive boardroom, critical business decisions are improved and even accelerated, and business workflows are being transformed and enhanced by these new corporate spaces. His presentation will list the constitu-ent elements of an Insight Room and explain the phased approach to deploy it, including budget considerations and measures for return on investment. [T200]
>Tuesday, June 14, 9:30-10:30am Healing Gardens: The Role of Fabric for Shade and Seating. [Basic] Gina Wicker, director of A&D markets at Sunbrella in Glen Ra-ven, NC, will discuss the benefits of incorporating perfor-mance fabrics into outdoor healing spaces in health care settings. Her presentation will focus on the history of healing gardens and the effect of fabric selection for both shade function and seat covering. [T201]
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neocon>Tuesday, June 14, 9:30-10:30am Embedded Light-
ing: The Future of Integrating Lighting into Architectural Materials. [Intermediate] Brad Koerner, venture man-ager - luminous patterns at Philips Lighting in Amsterdam, Netherlands, will talk about currently available embedded lighting technologies. These include conductive links, flex-ible electronics, digital fabrication, eco-friendly materials and other dynamic lighting options. [T204]
>Tuesday, June 14, 11:00am-Noon Generation Z and the Need for Legibility in Workplace Design. [Intermedi-ate] As Generation Z – the kids of Gen Xers – enter the workforce, this seminar considers whether the complex, sometimes ambiguous planning models and spaces popu-larized by Gen Y will work for Gen Z. From Haworth in Hol-land, MI, senior research strategist Mike O’Neill and senior workplace strategist Anjell Karibian will share a planning approach that emphasizes the “legibility” of space. Legible offices offer understandable planning configurations, with inclusive spaces that clearly communicate their intended use to workers of different generations and abilities. [T207]
>Tuesday, June 14, 11:00am-Noon Design Thinking for Active Learning Environments. [Basic] Christopher Good and Brandon Thomas of One Workplace in Santa Clara, CA identify the parallels between the Design Thinking mindset and the Active Learning pedagogy. Attendees of this session will work with peers to experience Design Thinking in ac-tion, and see how it aligns with Common Core curriculum, the Maker Movement, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and more. The discussion will include the six modes of classroom design most impacted by the link between Design Thinking and Active Learning. [T209]
>Tuesday, June 14, 1:00-2:00pm Redefining Acousti-cal Privacy: A Game of Jenga. [Intermediate] Jennifer Nye, senior interior designer at Gensler in Philadelphia, and Victoria Cerami, CEO of Cerami & Associates in NYC, will discuss practical design solutions that address the need for acoustical/sound privacy in open offices. These solutions are based on four different modes of work – focus, learning, collaboration and socialization – as well as worker expecta-tions around privacy. [T214]
>Tuesday, June 14, 1:00-2:00pm Office and Institutional Furniture Seating Standards. [Intermediate] David Panning, technical director at BIFMA in Grand Rapids, MI; Randy Ruster, senior manager, product codes and standards at Herman Miller in Zeeland, MI; and Teresa Bellingar, senior corporate ergonomist at Haworth in Holland, MI, will help attendees brush up on the array of seating standards and requirements for the various market segments in the office and institutional furniture industry. They will also talk about new developments in ergonomic seating considerations and the increased need for seating specific to health care. [T216]
>Tuesday, June 14, 1:00-2:00pm Beyond Beauty: What is Biophilic Design and Why Does It Matter? [Intermedi-ate] David Gerson, senior director of Americas marketing global activation with Interface in LaGrange, GA; and Bill Browning, founder of Terrapin Bright Green in NYC, will show how biophilic design can improve the quality of life in commercial settings. The discussion will include its effect on absenteeism, productivity, and more, plus manufacturer, architect, end user, and strategy/research perspectives on the importance of employing biophilic design principles – enhancing the human experience with connection to life systems and patterns – in products and projects. [T217]
>Tuesday, June 14, 1:00-2:00pm White: The Mother of All Colors. [Basic] From Sherwin Williams in Schaumburg, IL, color marketing director Susan Wadden will explore the definition of white as a color and its appearance through-out history in art, architecture, nature, science and more. Discussion will include the psychological and physiological effects of white in various settings and circumstances, the application of white in interior and exterior spaces, and how to think about mixing shades, warm and cool tones, light sources, and light reflection. [T220]
>Tuesday, June 14, 2:30-3:30pm Weathering the Storm: Mental Health Aspects of Resilient Interior Design. [Intermediate] The mental health of individuals can be affected by crisis events, causing anxiety-related responses that could evolve into chronic or severe disor-ders. Jon Penndorf and David Cordell, senior associates at Perkins+Will in Washington, DC, will present new tools for assessing the types of stresses that a resilient design strat-egy can address. Their research aims to establish criteria for evaluating how these strategies can positively impact the mental health of building occupants by measuring several categories of stresses and stressors before, during and after crisis events. [T221]
>Tuesday, June 14, 2:30-3:30pm Blending Design Across Markets. [Intermediate] From SMRT Architects and Engineers in Portland, ME, principal and director of interior design Erin Anderson and interior designer Jeana Stewart will show how knowledge in multiple market sectors can give designers a distinct advantage. Experience in educa-tion, health care, corporate, or other markets leads to un-derstanding of commonalities across sectors, and a practice or trend in one market can be leveraged to great effect in another. In addition to opportunities for design efficiencies across markets, the discussion will also cover examples of where universal designs don’t work. [T222]
>Tuesday, June 14, 2:30-3:30pm Major Rebranding Can Drive a Paradigm Shift: Law Firm Design. [Intermediate] From Perkins+Will in Washington, DC, design principal/associate Ken Wilson and interior designer Haley Nelson
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neoconwill present a case study demonstrating how a rebranding effort drove a significant paradigm shift in Nixon Peabody’s Washington, DC office. The new LEED-CI Platinum law firm underwent a process that addressed downsizing, transpar-ency, collaboration, alternative work environments, active design, and more. [T224]
>Tuesday, June 14, 2:30-3:30pm Work Light Right: Ergonomic and Economic Benefits of Dual-Source Light-ing. [Basic] Shane Cohen, global director, lighting, for Humanscale in NYC, will share the latest research on how dual-source lighting schemes can boost worker comfort and productivity while promoting energy and cost savings. The session will include detailed guidelines for optimizing lighting levels for maximum ergonomic, environmental, and economic benefits. [T225]
>Tuesday, June 14, 4:00-5:00pm Blurred Lines: How Experiential Design is Changing Our Understanding of Spaces. [Basic] IA Interior Architects environmental graphic designer Kevin Funkhouser will demonstrate how our experi-ences with devices are changing what we expect out of phys-ical spaces, and what that means for design. For example, have you ever seen a child get confused when a TV doesn’t respond to touch? Or have you ever tried to hit “Ctrl+Z” in real life? This presentation will share how the latest innova-tions in architecture, interiors and graphics can work together to create cohesive experiences and modern environments that send (and respond to) the right messages. [T228]
>Tuesday, June 14, 4:00-5:00pm From a Mid-Century Modern School to a 21st Century Office. [Intermediate] This is a case study of CPS Garfield Park Offices – a suc-cessful transformation of an existing vacant 1960s elemen-tary school, from an old building with cave-like corridors into a new contemporary workplace for Chicago Public Schools employees. Departments were organized into neighborhoods along a new circulation spine, and the build-ing has become an urban center, a dynamic environment, bringing new life to the neighborhood. Presented by Rada Doytcheva, principal and head of design, and Doug Boldt, senior project architect, at RADA Architects in Chicago, with Jonathan Fine, architectural design manager for Chicago Public Schools. [T230]
>Tuesday, June 14, 4:00-5:00pm Integrating Collabora-tion and Conferencing Into Workplace Furnishings. [Inter-mediate] Today’s workplaces demand increased integration of technologies for conferencing, collaboration, and desktop functionality. Cable management, power distribution, and heat dissipation all are things that challenge smooth integra-tion. Matthew Ezold, principal with Cerami in Philadelphia, will review the various kinds of technology to consider and go over best practices for their integration into workplace furnishings. [T233]
>Wednesday, June 15, 9:30-10:30am Innovation Rules: How Coworking is Shaping the Office Building of the Future. [Basic] Citing research that predicts that at least one million professionals will work in coworking facilities by 2020, Lori Geftic, founder of Designalytic in Washington, DC, will review the basic elements of this design concept, comparing the space plans, branding, and services of mul-tiple coworking facilities. [W300]
>Wednesday, June 15, 9:30-10:30am Demystifying Workplace Technology. [Intermediate] Alan McGinty, senior director, global workplace innovation group at Cisco in Research Triangle Park, NC; and Mark Miller, workplace transformation practice leader at Cisco in Farmington, CT offer a non-technical look at technology, discussing the role of video, collaboration tools, mobility, wireless, analytics and “Internet of things” in the next generation workplace. They will present a case study of how Cisco is leveraging technol-ogy in its newest offices, and best practices and lessons learned so far in the recent transformation of the 20 mil-lion+ square feet of office space in its portfolio. [W305]
>Wednesday, June 15, 11:00am-Noon Designing for Workplace Health & Wellbeing and a Workplace Analytics. [Intermediate] CAPTIW is a workplace performance analyt-ics tool developed by more than 40 industry and academic partners. It provides practitioners with free comprehensive analyses to promote evidence based practice. This semi-nar, presented by Young Lee and Matthew Schottenfeld of Innovative Workplace Institute in NYC and James Brewer, workplace consultant with Steelcase, will show how to use CAPTIW’s comprehensive list of workplace health and wellbeing indicators, and use the data to help inform design and plan decisions. [W307]
>Wednesday, June 15, 11:00am-Noon Getting the Right Flooring in the Right Place. [Intermediate] According to Lewis Migliore, president of LGM & Associates Technical Flooring Services in Dalton, GA, the biggest cause of floor-ing failures is installing the wrong product, or installing it in the wrong place. This seminar will help in determining what products will deliver the best service for each application. It will cover practical issues like substrate conditions and installation as well as new flooring materials – both soft and hard surface – that are available, along with their strengths and their challenges. [W309]
>Wednesday, June 15, 11:00am-Noon Jim, I’m a Designer, Not a Chemist: Navigating the World of Mate-rial Health for Designers. [Intermediate] Understanding material health nearly requires a PhD in chemistry. Design-ers navigate through increasingly daunting documents with overwhelming scientific language. G. Steven South, senior designer and senior associate at HLW International in NYC, will offer helpful tips in understanding – and communicating
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neoconto colleagues and clients – material health resources includ-ing Material Safety and Data Sheets, Environmental Prod-ucts Declarations, and Health Product Declarations. [W311]
>Wednesday, June 15, 11:00am-Noon Identity and Ki-netic Lighting in Urban Revitalization. [Intermediate] From RADA Architects in Chicago, principal and head of design Rada Doytcheva and principal Aram Garbooshian join Shanna Olson, senior lighting designer at KJWW Engineer-ing Consultants in Chicago, to discuss the role of kinetic lighting and identity/rebranding for existing buildings in an urban environment. Presenting the multiple award-winning example of 400 East Randolph, a high rise residential build-ing in the Lakeshore East area of Chicago, their talk will cover several renovations that occurred across many years, and how lighting strategies and implementations directly contributed to the success of the projects. [W312]
>Wednesday, June 15, 11:00am-Noon Dispelling Mis-conceptions to Enrich Design [Intermediate] Dr. Sally Au-gustin, principal of Design With Science in LaGrange Park, IL, will share ten powerful and influential cognitive-science related misconceptions about good design. For example, she will discuss whether designing spaces that we would like to work in is always a good approach; or consider the idea that not every space should make positive moods more likely. Her presentation will help attendees to better under-stand the cognitive science underlying mental performance and the nuance involved in creating space for productivity and wellbeing. [W313]
>Wednesday, June 15, 1:00-2:00pm Resimercial: The Multi-Market Appeal of Amenity Spaces. [Intermediate] In a competitive leasing market, building owners and develop-ers tasked with creating properties to attract and retain ten-ants recognize that amenities are not just for the hospitality market. From FitzGerald Associates Architects in Chicago, senior designer and project manager Steve McFadden, inte-rior designer Jess Ultreras, and architect Erik Lehy will show how both commercial and multi-family properties are incor-porating amenity spaces with a customized solution as part of a larger repositioning strategy addressing marketability, tenant attraction and retention, investor attraction, technol-ogy, demographics, lifestyle and wellness trends. [W315]
>Wednesday, June 15, 1:00-2:00pm The Most Impor-tant Skill They Didn’t Teach You in Design School. [Basic] No school can prepare interior designers for the chaotic work environment that awaits them when they land their first job. But, as explained by Matt Spaulding, president of Spaulding Communications in Decatur, GA, designers who possess “power communication” skills will excel in a world where ambiguity and confusion reign. His presentation will address the pull of multiple technologies, virtual workforces, demanding clients and other difficult factors; and how effective listening skills, better leadership presence, and precision with words can help a designer’s career, firm and project outcomes. [W318]
>Wednesday, June 15, 1:00-2:00pm Post-Occupancy Evaluation. [Basic] Post occupancy evaluation (POE) is a tool used to determine the users’ satisfaction of a building after its completion. From Ball State University in Muncie, IN, interior design program director Reza Ahmadi and architect Charles Ellis will show how to conduct these studies and use areas of dissatisfaction to best advantage. As a case study, results of a POE conducted in 2015 on a university academic building revealed a major communica-tion gap between the architectural/interior design firm and the end users. This presentation evaluates what happened and considers how to use this information to inform upcom-ing projects. [W320]
TOURSNeoCon’s popular guided tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright
Home and Studio in Oak Park has reached capacity. For information on public tours and tickets visit www.flwright.org or call 312-994-4000. n
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concurrents
A group needs a truly private space they can claim as their own – a terri-tory – if they’re going to do their best work together.
When groups have a territory they become a more cohesive unit, which is particularly handy when they face chal-lenges. People work better on tasks, tactical and strategic, when they feel closer connections to their teammates.
An effective territory is owned indefinitely, it is continually available and isolated from curious eyes. When an organization provides a team with dedicated space, they signal that they value that group and the contributions it can make. After that sort of message is sent and received, teams work just a little bit harder and care a little more about outcomes.
To perform to their potential in a team space, a group needs to feel that it has some control over the area’s form as well as privacy there. Control means they can make
modifications appropriate to proj-ect phases, for example. A space is private when people can work through to problem resolutions or try out new things there without worry-ing what people outside their group might think about what they’re up to. Only their teammates can see or hear what’s going on.
Physical places provide privacy in a way that electronic meeting areas can’t. Sure, someone can always be secretly recording a group ses-sion when everyone is physically in the same room, but the influence of that sort of potential activity or group behavior is less than the freezing effect created by the concern that someone unknown is lurking at an electronic gathering, ready to carry information to others in the organization.
We also communicate with each other more effectively when we’re face-to-face than when we’re connecting electronically.
A group space must reflect the culture of a team, and so should individual workplaces, if any are provided. Organizational cultures are continuing ways of ordering priorities and getting things done. The Com-peting Values cultural framework established by Cameron and Quinn establishes four cultural types, each of which is clearly supported by par-ticular sorts of spaces, but there are other organizational culture systems that can be used to understand how a group works, and wants to work, and what sorts of spaces should be available to it.
A team’s group space should be acoustically separate from any individual workstations teammates might have. If it isn’t, everyone will continually be disturbed when group meetings begin. Also, moving from the space where individual thinking happens to the one where group work is in order leads to a useful mental shift. It’s fine to have people work-ing on individual tasks within earshot of group meetings, but don’t expect either the group or the individual to work as effectively as they might under those circumstances.
If group members have individual workstations, their group space should be immediately adjacent to those individual workstations, and acousti-cally and visually isolated from areas frequented by non-teammates. A transparent wall between the group space and the individual workstations of group members, that acoustically shields each area from the other, is fine; providing a team with a trans-parent walled box as a group space, in the midst of other groups, creates an “animals in the zoo effect,” which dampens performance.
Spaces for Groups!by Sally Augustin, Ph.D.
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concurrentsThere are two ways that the zoo
animal situation gets resolved: a group will never feel that a group space is theirs and won’t work to their full potential in it, or they will find a way to block the view of outsiders into their group space, if they’re allowed to do so. Furniture will move, charts will get posted onto walls, etc. If the organiza-tion does not allow these sorts of visual blockers, and for them to stay in place over time, the out-in-the-middle-of-it-all group room will be largely a waste of resources.
It’s important to remember that people generally want to do good work
for their employer. They will do the best they can with the opportunities provided to them. Supplying groups with an acoustically and visually pri-vate space that they control, for their indefinite use, supports their efforts to work to their full potential, instead of stymying it. n
Sally Augustin, PhD, a cognitive sci-entist, is the editor of Research Design Connections (www.researchdesigncon-nections.com), a monthly subscription newsletter and free daily blog, where recent and classic research in the social, design, and physical sciences that can inform designers’ work are
presented in straightforward language. Readers learn about the latest re-search findings immediately, before they’re available elsewhere. Sally, who is a Fellow of the American Psycho-logical Association, is also the author of Place Advantage: Applied Psychol-ogy for Interior Architecture (Wiley, 2009) and, with Cindy Coleman, The Designer’s Guide to Doing Research: Applying Knowledge to Inform Design (Wiley, 2012). She is a principal at Design With Science (www.designwith-science.com) and can be reached at [email protected].
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r-d connectionRESEARCH-DESIGN CONNECTIONPlacebos Still Workby Sally Augustin, Ph.D.
Research by Garvey, Germann and Bolton supports the placebo effect. They report that when people com-pleted tasks using products that were promoted as enhancing performance on the tasks tested, their performance, objectively measured, was better than when exactly the same products were used to do the same tasks but not promoted as performance enhancing: “Five field and laboratory studies dem-onstrate that this performance brand effect emerges through psychological
mechanisms unrelated to functional product differences, consistent with a placebo…this effect emerges only when there is an expectation that the performance branded product affects outcomes, consumers attribute gains to themselves. The performance brand placebo is due to a lowering of task-induced anxiety, driven by heightened state self-esteem.”
“Performance” products tested includ-ed golf clubs and foam ear plugs, and enhanced performance was found with both physical and cognitive tasks. The effect found is not as strong when people are experts at the task tested. Furnish-ings, for example, are regularly promoted as performance enhancing. So, this work by Garvey, Germann and Bolton, indicates that furnishings promoted as performance enhancing are particularly likely to affect the performance of new entrants to the workforce. n
Aaron Garvey, Frank Germann and Lisa Bolton. “Performance Brand Placebos: How Brands Improve
Performance and Consumers Take the Credit.” Journal of Consumer Re-search, in press.
Sally Augustin, PhD, a cognitive sci-entist, is the editor of Research Design Connections (www.researchdesigncon-nections.com), a monthly subscription newsletter and free daily blog, where recent and classic research in the social, design, and physical sciences that can inform designers’ work are presented in straightforward language. Readers learn about the latest re-search findings immediately, before they’re available elsewhere. Sally, who is a Fellow of the American Psycho-logical Association, is also the author of Place Advantage: Applied Psychol-ogy for Interior Architecture (Wiley, 2009) and, with Cindy Coleman, The Designer’s Guide to Doing Research: Applying Knowledge to Inform Design (Wiley, 2012). She is a principal at Design With Science (www.designwith-science.com) and can be reached at [email protected].
MATERIAL OF THE WEEK
MC# 7242-01Pleated Opaque Textiles: This range of pleated opaque textiles of various fiber compositions and weave construction are from Bart Halpern, Inc. Depending on the width and line of the pleat, and the way in which the entire length or portions of the pleats are pressed (open, closed, up, down), shadows and tonal effects create depth and texture for allover 3D patterns. The synthetic composition ensures the heat-pressed pleats remain permanent, allowing the textiles to be machine washed or dried. A knit fabric backing is available for upholstery use, a nonwoven backing for wall covering applications and direct gluing. Pleats available are solid fabrics.
This column is published in collaboration with Material ConneXion. For more information regarding the material previewed, please contact Michael LaGreca at [email protected]. T: 212.842.2050.
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officenewswirePRODUCT INTROS>Christopher Moulder intro-duced two new collections: The Royals and The Forest. Mr. Moulder is an Atlanta-based designer specializing in “poetic lighting” that merges lighting and art with sculptur-al forms. The limited edition chandeliers, pendants and sconces in the new collec-tions are characterized by in-tegral light sources, sculptural silhouettes, and interesting shadow effects.
The Forest is an abstract approach towards lighting, translating the essence of an object or idea into a illumi-nated sculpture. Drawing inspiration from the essence of various flora and fauna, each piece in the collection features strong shapes with slim bits of material, creat-ing an intricate yet delicate form. Branch (pictured) is a chandelier with an aqueous form, crafted from aluminum, PVC, and phosphor bronze. Wispy coils with small loop end bulbs extend from each
solid “arm,” creating a sense of movement while making the lighting well dispersed. Mushroom evokes the lush, edible texture of its namesake with 400 vanes of crumpled Nomex paper forming the base of the light. Oiseaux, named after the French word for birds, is a wall sconce with a sinuous, lightweight skeletal form that appears to float from the wall. Stag is a wall sconce featuring linear pro-jections that create interesting shadow effects with tiny bulbs placed delicately at the ends of metal loops.
The two chandeliers in The Royals collection are defined by large celestial disks with a series of bulbs evoking a cluster of stars. These lights achieve the opposite visual impact of The Forest through color, flexibility and the creation and emphasis of negative space. Lady Heather features delicate moiré pat-terns spinning from every angle. Princess and the Pea calls to mind the classic fairy tale, appearing nearly two-
dimensional except for the “pea” – implied in the nega-tive space created with 24 small light bulbs that form a lacy pucker in the 1/8” thick disk. Read More
>JESCO introduced a new line of small-scale, square- and round-shaped adjustable LED recessed downlights for new construc-tion applications. RLH-P351 (3 ½” round), RLH-P355 (3 ½” square), RLH-P401 (4” round), RLH-P405 (4” square) Premier LED Recessed Downlights are available in 15W or 20W for insulated and non-insulated ceilings. Special trim fittings
allow for four specific lighting applications – fixed straight down, adjustable beam angle, adjustable beam pinhole and wallwash. Integrated high-efficacy LEDs, combined with dimmable drivers and high-transmission optical diffusers ensure uniform light output for either model. Read More
>Organic Lighting Systems introduced liniLED® Marker Lights. Round or square LED spot/accent in-ground lumi-naires create diffused spots of light for walkways, pathways, streetscapes, or drive-over ap-plications. Each Marker Light contains a low-energy white or RGB liniLED® strip encap-sulated in drive-over rated cast polyurethane resin, in an epoxy-coated stainless-steel housing. liniLED® Marker Lights have non-slip surfaces, and are available in a range of colors and sizes. Each Marker Light uses between 1W to 3W of energy, enabling a large number of units to be interconnected to a single 24Volt driver. Round Marker Lights are available in 3-,
For complete releases, visit www.officeinsight.com/officenewswire.
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officenewswire3.3- and 5.5-inch diameters; Square Marker Lights are 2.75- and 4.6-inches square. All models are 2.95 inches high. LED color choices in-clude amber, blue, green, red and white in 2400K, 2700K, 3000K, 4000K and 6500K. Read More
>Resident, a New Zealand-based designer and manu-facturer of high quality fur-niture and lighting, unveiled its new 2016 collection during ICFF New York. New products include:
-Volley Chair by Jamie McLel-lan: A playful lounge chair made from flat components seamed together into a com-fortable three dimensional form. Available in a variety of upholstery finishes with either timber legs or an upholstered swivelling pedestal base.
-Interstellar Dining Table by Resident Studio: Made in New Zealand from carbon fibre, Interstellar is a dynamic statement piece that appears to float due to its ultra-thin profile. It is anchored by black powder-coated or brushed stainless steel legs.
-Midnight Pendant by Resi-dent Studio: A spectacular feature light designed to add bold decoration to commer-cial and residential spaces, Midnight Pendant’s suspend-ed geometry is constructed out of hand brushed alumin-ium. The 12-sided pendant contains the highest quality/ highest output 24V LED strip available, which is recessed and diffused to produce a strong, consistent and luxuri-ous hue.
-Odin Chair by Jamie McLel-lan: Originally created as a commission for a series of boutique alpine properties in Niseko Japan, the Odin Chair was designed to feel like an appropriate mix of both Nordic and Japanese cultures. There is a structural harmony in how the four die cast aluminum legs cradle a seat base and curved back rest in laminated solid ash.
-Echo Spotlight and Pendant by Flynn Talbot: A fusion of decorative and technical light-
ing, Echo features snap on lenses which can be custom-ized on-site to change color temperature, glare and beam angle. Read More
NOTEWORTHY>The Center for Active De-sign extended the deadline for the 2016 Excellence Awards to Friday, June 10. Thanks to new followers from last week’s Fitwel announce-ment, award organizers decided to give designers an additional week to submit Built and Research Projects for awards. Read More
>Organizers of ICFF NYC 2016 reported record at-tendance, exhibitors, and exhibit space. Held May 14-17 as the keystone event of NYCxDESIGN, ICFF wel-comed more than 130 new exhibitors and 587 return-ing brands and pavilions,
delivering a 30% larger footprint. “The 2016 edition of ICFF NYC exceeded all of our expectations,” said Kevin O’Keefe, ICFF Show Director. “Attendance increased by 6% to over 35,000 industry trade professionals, and the feed-back on the quality of buyer and specifier meetings has been extremely positive. The expanded fair’s new features and larger scale were a hit with attendees, as were the Best of NYCxDESIGN Awards at MoMA, which we know will return bigger and better in 2017.” Read More
>ICFF announced the 2016 Editors’ Awards winners. On May 14, during the first day of ICFF NYC 2016, an esteemed jury recognized 11 designers and product designs, as well as awarding one of the 14 institutions participating in the annual ICFF Schools exhibi-tions with the Best of School Exhibition:
Resident: Midnight Pendant by Resident Studio and Odin Chair by Jamie McLellan
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-Best Seating: Mellow by Océane Delain for Bernhardt Design (pictured)
-Best Portable Design: Champ by Visibility for Matter Made
-Best Design for Social Good: Tala
-Best Lighting: Concentric by Rob Zinn for Marset
-Best Floor Covering: Mid Century Modern Collection by Nasiri
-Best Body of Work: The Grain Family, The Church Family and The Ada Family by Brendan Ravenhill Studio
-Best First Time Exhibitor: Coil + Drift
-Best Storage: Crain Cabinet by Egg Collective
-Best Wallcovering: Wayneto-pia by Wayne White for Flavor Paper
-Best Furniture System: RUN by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin for Emeco
-Best Kitchen and Bath: Mid by Giovanna Talocci for Effegibi
-Best School: Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) for Metaproject 06
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RE-SITED>Carl Gustav Magnusson is reopening his industrial design practice in New York City. For the past three and a half years, Mr. Magnusson has served as executive vice president for idesk, the newly formed design brand of Cher-ryman in Los Angeles. As lead designer for the company, he designed and curated the complete line of contract furniture that was previewed at Neocon 2015. To date the collection has garnered 10 design awards internationally.
Mr. Magnusson’s back-ground includes working with Ray and Charles Eames and decades as director of design with Knoll. Among his numerous accolades, he has received the Design Legend Award from Contract maga-zine and the Calibre Circle of Excellence from IIDA, Southern California Chap-ter. In reopening his NYC practice, he will now return to serving furniture, lighting and automotive clients in product design, marketing, profes-sional speaking and design jurying. Read More
ENVIRONMENT>CallisonRTKL’s latest sustainability report is now available online. It looks back at the firm’s most
Earth-friendly achievements of 2015, sustainable industry trends, and goals for 2016. 2015 was a monumental year for CallisonRTKL. Callison and RTKL came together as a single practice under the Arcadis umbrella, expand-ing its sphere of influence and the depth and breadth of its resources. “By shar-ing our knowledge, progress and setbacks in this year’s sustainability report, we hope to encourage others in our industry to keep building green and making our planet a priority,” the firm said in a statement announcing the new report. “In 2016, we look forward to an even better year of collaboration and mak-ing the world a better place through design.” Read More
ICFF Editors’ Awards Best Seating Mellow by Océane Delain for Bernhardt Design
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officenewswireEVENTS>IIDA Illinois Chapter will host Artiture on Saturday, Jun. 25 in Bloomington, IL. The benefit event, 6:00-9:00 p.m. at Epiphany Farms Res-taurant, 220 East Front Street, is open to the public. Artists create one-of-a-kind items which are then auctioned off in a silent auction. Proceeds from the auction, as well as proceeds from ticket sales, raffle items, and donations are donated to Habitat for Humanity of McLean County. Read More
>IIDA Illinois and the Illinois Interior Design Coalition will host Designer Drinks on Thursday, Jul. 28 at the DIRTT, Kimball, National, and Trendway showrooms, 325 N. Wells Street in Chicago, 6:00-9:00 p.m. Guests will spend the evening meandering through four different spaces, from street
level to the roof, while sipping Designer Drinks and enjoying the view of the Chicago River. All proceeds raised will go to support IIDC. Read More
>The IIDA Illinois 2016 Leaders Breakfast will take place Oct. 14 at Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel Chicago, 221 North Columbus Drive, 7:00-10:00 a.m. The Chicago Leaders Breakfast celebrates design’s importance in the global marketplace by featuring a keynote speaker to encourage new ideas and recognizing one city-selected honoree who has made significant contributions to the design industry. This year’s Leadership Award of Excellence Honoree is Eileen Jones, IIDA AIGA, SEGD, LEED AP ID+C, Principal & Branded Environments Global Practice Leader at Perkins+Will. The keynote speaker is Polly LaBarre, author of Mavericks at Work, Founding Member of Fast Company magazine, and Co-Founder/Editorial Director, The Management Innovation eXchange. Read More
>IIDA NY Rochester City Center this Wednesday, Jun. 1, will host Sound + Color, a Spring CEU Event featuring presentations from Benjamin Moore and Armstrong Ceil-ings. The event will be held at Restaurant Good Luck, 50 Anderson Ave. in Rochester, 5:30-8:30 p.m. The two pre-sentations offer 0.1 CEU each:
Fran Ducharme, Architectural & Design Representative with
Benjamin Moore & Co., will present “The Science of Color & Light,” which will provide an overview of the properties of color and light. The course includes discussions on types of lighting; metamerism; Color Rendering Index (CRI) and Light Reflectance Value (LRV) and how they affect design choices.
James Mathis, Full Line Sales Manager with Armstrong Ceilings, will present “Innova-tions In Acoustical Ceilings for Today’s Flexible Interiors.” Understanding how to design for acoustics in today’s flex-ible interiors takes on new importance as traditional acoustical recommendations are not compatible with cur-rent design trends. Architects are challenged with designing spaces that have multiple functions. Now the science behind the ceiling is able to provide both high sound absorption (NRC) and sound blocking (CAC) in the same panel. Read More
IIDA NY Rochester City Center Sound + Color Spring CEU Event
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officenewswire>Submission deadline is this Tuesday, May 31, for speak-er proposals to the second annual Living Product Expo, Sep. 13-15 in Pittsburgh. Presented by the International Living Future Institute, the inaugural Living Product Expo last fall attracted hundreds of participants seeking posi-tive change in the manner in which products are designed and manufactured. The show aims to help make meaning-ful connections and push for the creation of healthy materials to broadly transform the industry. The theme of this year’s Living Product Expo is “Crafting the Future of Materials.” Exhibitor registra-tion is also open, as is the opportunity for sponsorships. Read More
>LuxeHome at the Mer-chandise Mart will host the Chicago Design Summit on Sep. 14. Described as the Midwest’s largest residential design summit, this one-day trade event will feature presentations by industry experts, CEU seminars, new product debuts, open houses and much more, focuse on interior design, architecture, and luxury custom home building. It culminates with the eighth annual Chicago VIP Luxury Gala, celebrating the best in Chicago design and honoring 2016 inductees to the Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame. Read More
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businessBUSINESS AFFAIRS >The American Institute of Architects reported the April Architecture Billings Index score was 50.6, down from the mark of 51.9 in the previous month. This score still reflects an increase in design services (any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings). The new projects inquiry index was 56.9, down from a reading of 58.1 the previous month. The design contracts index was 54.3, up from 51.8 in March.
“Architects continue to report a wide range of business condi-tions, with unusually high variation in design activity across the major building categories,” said AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker, Hon. AIA, PhD. “The strong growth in design contracts – the strongest score for this indicator since last summer -- certainly suggests that firms will be reporting growth in billings over the next several months.”
Regionally, the South had the highest three-month average ABI score at 52.2, followed by the Northeast (51.5), West (50.8), and Midwest (50.8). By sector, multi-family residential scored highest (53.7), followed by commercial/industrial (52.0), mixed practice (50.0), and institutional (49.0). www.aia.org/press/AIAB108864
>Herman Miller, Inc. plans to issue its fourth-quarter fiscal 2016 earnings press release after market close on Wednes-day, Jun. 22, with a conference call webcast scheduled for Thursday, Jun. 23, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Eastern Time. www.hermanmiller.com/about-us/investors.html
TECHNOLOGY>Configura, maker of CET Designer software, announced free June webinars with CET Designer instructors:
Getting Started with CET Designer Jun. 7 at 1 p.m. ET Jun. 22 at 4 p.m. ET
The free webinars are for anyone, whether a Beginner or Advanced CET Designer user, anywhere in the world. Please call 877-568-4106 and click on “Join Webinar Now” at www.configura.com/cet/training. To contact Configura with any ques-tions or suggestions, call 877-238-0808. Read More
Nucraft is seeking an existing independent rep group or individuals interested in starting an independent rep group in the New York/New Jersey territory. Ideal candidates should have proven success in developing relationships within the A&D Community, highly motivated, strong sales skills, and knowledge of wood products.
Nucraft is an independent, family-owned, leading manufacturer of meeting tables and private office casegoods.
Dauphin, the German office furniture maker with manufacturing in Boonton NJ, seeks a Market Manager to work from our Chelsea, NYC showroom.
Primary responsibilities include developing relationships with endusers, the design community and dealers; assessing opportunities and presenting appropriate Dauphin collaborative furniture solutions; assisting in the specification of our products; providing samples, pricing and /or demonstrations
as requested. You are expected to engage with the design community through involvement with industry organizations and attendance at industry events.
Desired Skills and Experience The ideal candidate should be a self-starter who is experienced in selling consultative furniture solutions, is able to multi-task, has good written and verbal communication skills and is adept at using PDA tablets to present branded PowerPoint presentations.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite expected. You should have a 4-year college degree and minimum 5 years’ experience selling into the NYC commercial interiors market.
This position reports directly to the Regional Business Manager. Dauphin offers a competitive salary, incentive plan and attractive benefits. For consideration, please email a cover letter and resume to [email protected]
