This week, we look at advice for design students, more predictions for the design year ahead, the building as ecosystem, non-career professors in the design studio, and how to get people to climb stairs.
IIDA EVP Cheryl Durst was the keynote speaker at the Student Interior Design Expo in Minneapolis last week. Check out 10 Things Designers Need to Know. Now, Cheryl’s advice to her student audience about what to expect from the industry.
Given the slow growth of green building in 2011, what can we expect in 2012? Among Jerry Yudelson’s predictions: a bounce for EBOM, a drop in solar installations, and building management out of the cloud.
What sets Promoting Routine Stair Use apart from other studies on how to promote physical activity? Researchers looked at stair use in three different building types, tracked climbs as well as descents and maintain their findings indicate that signage can have a long-term positive effect.
In Architectural Design Influences The Diversity And Structure of the Built Environment Microbiome, researchers sampled airborne microbes in three environments within a hospital: outdoor air, a window-ventilated room and a mechanically-ventilated room. Findings point to the potential for managing an indoor environment in the same way we manage a natural ecosystem.
Cost-cutting measures in U.K. and U.S. design programs have resulted in an influx of non-career teachers into the design studio. What challenges do TAs and design practitioners face in the classroom? In Non-Career Teachers in the Design Studio, the authors discuss how design program administrators can assist with their professional development.
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