Presented at the 1st annual Appreciative Education Conference in Myrtle Beach SC 2015.
This presentation is designed to encourage the use of ecology and design principals to create more student friendly areas and to increase the connection between student and advisers.
**NOTE!** This presentation is not designed as a stand alone. It is meant to have narration and commentary along with the slides. I travel and present this workshop at universities and companies, and am available to come give it on your campus or workplace, just email me!
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3. In this session
Why design matters
Way-finding and its importance
Space effects on employees
Office design effect on advisees
Tips & Tricks
Examples
4. Why Design Matters?
Way finding
How does this make me feel?
Unconscious
reactions
Nonverbal Ques
Spatial relationships
7. The average worker will
spendmore waking hours in
their officethan their living
room
COMBINED
and bedroom
8. If it looks like
your employee
could get up
and walk out
one day and
never come
back..
There is a
good
chance that
is a
possibility
9. What is the space used for?
Work alone
Meet clients
Computer use
Layout &
function
Seating
Processes that take place in the space
10. What does it mean....
Which way are the pictures facing?
What is behind the office owner?
What are you looking at?
Heights of the seating?
40. References
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