Posts by Livable Canada
Why and How to Market the Design Health Benefits you Provide!
This session will help you learn how to integrate health and wellness services into your marketing communications. Should you work together with local universities to create collaborative studies around the effects of your product, or should you design your own studies? How will you become the early adopter, the authority, providing design that improves your…
Read MoreWellness in the Home – a Technology Insight
This session will describe how technology can improve health and how it can be used to make your designs more exciting. Technology and design are both significant parts of our lives, but they fail to overlap. This session will change that. Scientific studies have shown that certain technologies can enhance wellness in the home. Speaker…
Read MoreHealthy Aging Architecture: The Danish Approach to Building Sustainable Social Environments for the Elderly
Healthy Aging Architecture: The Danish Approach to Building Sustainable Social Environments for the Elderly Denmark has a holistic view of aging, which aligns with what most people want as they age, and it does it without compromising other goals. NORD Architects was founded in 2003 by Danish architects Johannes M. Pedersen and Morten R. Gregersen,…
Read MoreInclusive Design for and with Persons with Varying Cognitive Abilities
Join us to learn about the Open Collaboration for Cognitive Accessibility, which helps to make spaces, products, and services usable for people with a range of cognitive abilities. People with cognitive disabilities serve as advisors, testing and improving cognitive accessibility at Open. The Open cognitive-accessibility community is strongly committed to supporting people with all forms…
Read MoreCreating Liveable Spaces for People Dealing with Dementia
Long Term Care facilities have been designed for ease of physical care, which presents a challenge for people dealing with dementia. They require striking imagery, bold colors, and tactile elements to navigate the world. Stephen MacEachern will take you through the Region of Peel’s journey as they transform their long-term-care facilities into wondrous places based…
Read MoreThe Impact of Colour on our Wellbeing
You can see color all around you. Yet each of us responds differently to colors, depending on our moods and emotions. Color plays a major role in how we respond to things around us. It can directly elicit emotions and transform our moods. Color can have a huge impact on your health. If you use…
Read MoreHealthy Materials: A Moral Imperative for Design Professionals
You’re what you eat, but are you also where you live? Construction materials linked to human health risks have been found to increase significantly as we spend up to 90% of our time indoors. A recent study found that indoor levels of the chemicals were also present at outdoor levels within a few hundred feet…
Read MoreWellness Design – From our Perspective
I believe that “Wellness Design” encompasses much more than just healthy HVAC systems and airtight envelopes. We create wellness designs from the Inside Out. What does that encompass? Speaker Julie Schuster Principal and Creative Director of Julie Schuster Design Studio https://www.jlsdesignstudio.com/
Read MoreAdaptable Multi-Sensory Environments; Impacts on Design and Wellness
Marnie Courage will describe the increasing demand for sensory-friendly environments, and how designers are creating more inclusive spaces. She describes how those rooms address the sensory needs of a more diverse population and suggests that those rooms can be created in various settings to benefit everyone. You are invited to learn how responsive environments are…
Read MoreCase Study: Creating a Lifetime Home
Many people will move as their needs change, but others are looking to build a custom home that can change with them. Building a custom house requires the efforts of many people. The owner must work with an architect to understand current needs and predict future requirements. Join us as we experience designing a lifetime…
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