Wellness Video

Studies have shown that most people spend 90% of their time indoors. This is why it’s important to examine factors within the indoor environment which will have a significant impact on our health and well-being. The Mental Health concept of the WELL Building Standard helps quantify how to transform buildings into vehicles for health, well-being,…

Day 2 Live Presentation: Learn From our Product Experts: How to Create a Sensory Sanctuary in the Home with Wellness, Style and Accessibility Our talented and experienced product experts from Kohler and Savaria will present the latest products to help you create a safe, beautiful sanctuary for the dynamic new aging consumer. From creating a…

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…

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…

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/

The fastest growing influence in design today is the realization that great design improves health and wellness. Studies from Harvard, Johns Hopkins and around the world prove the health benefits of design, and designers need to start taking credit for it. Learn what leading neuroscientists say about the future of our industry, and the potential…

This panel discussion will focus on overcoming the challenges that older adults face in maintaining their independence while remaining in their own home for as long as they can. We will discuss how to meet the needs of multiple generations living in one house. Ultimately, it’s important to focus on things you can control. If…

Ultimately, there are sometimes concrete reasons why high-performance buildings aren’t always possible, but when everyone involved in the process knows what high-performance is and how to achieve it, the chances for delivering well-designed, energy-efficient, sustainable buildings make it much more likely. This presentation will look at the elements of good design, how they should be…

I am sure most of you never think that the walls that enclose and define our space can impact health, possible more than anything else in our home or work space. For the purposes of this discussion, the walls includes the building envelope as they are intimately connected and should be treated wholistically as part…

Should form follow function…or should it follow feeling? Do we build and design houses…or habitats? Learn how cutting-edge research is revealing how aesthetic experiences are entering our minds through the portal of the senses–Do we design based on sense perception? Learn why aesthetic experiences are an “evolutionary imperative” and are essential to our well-being. Susan…