MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The latest installment in the Ellerbe Becket Optimal Healing Environment Lecture Series will be held this week at the University of Minnesota’s Mayo Memorial Auditorium.
Co-sponsored by Ellerbe Becket and the University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and Healing, this lecture series brings leading health care thinkers to the University to share their knowledge and enhance the level of dialogue, with the ultimate goal of “raising the bar” in the design of healing environments.
Kent Lawson, health + wellness practice lead for design and innovation firm IDEO, will present “Human Centered Design and Innovation in Health Care.”
Lawson will speak about modern design and innovation in health care. With case studies and stories of IDEO's work in today's dynamic health care environment, ranging from physical environments to surgical tools, drug delivery systems to health insurance products/services, this lecture will provide a path toward implementing human-centered design in practice and in health care environments.
An industrial designer who has been active in the health care and medical design fields since 1982, Lawson oversees IDEO's relationships with some of the biggest names in health care today. Formerly a professor of industrial design at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Lawson’s (and IDEO’s) human-centered design focus continues to deliver meaningful solutions and results for clients.
“To truly, meaningfully innovate, you simply must put people at the center of everything that you do,” Lawson said.
“Healing is multi-dimensional. The more we know as designers and health care providers, the better we are at creating healing environments with the power to inspire and improve the human condition,” said Jon Buggy, AIA, managing principal at Ellerbe Becket, an AECOM Company. “To improve our own practice, we have made an important commitment to health care education and research, focused on learning from legitimate research in evidence-based design and integrating that knowledge into our design process.”
“The Center for Spirituality & Healing is well regarded for integrating education and holistic healing. They are national leaders in this important initiative and we at Ellerbe Becket see this collaboration as a natural fit between our two organizations.”
WHEN:
Friday, April 16, 2010
3-4 p.m. Lecture
4-5:30 p.m. Q & A, conversation & dialogue, followed by reception
WHERE:
University of Minnesota, Mayo Memorial Auditorium
425 Delaware Street S.E., Minneapolis
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COST:
Free, but space is limited, please register at www.tickets.umn.edu or call 612-624-9459.
About Ellerbe Becket, an AECOM Company
Founded in 1909, Ellerbe Becket is internationally recognized as a leader in the architecture, engineering and interior design industries. Through its global reach and broad expertise, Ellerbe Becket has designed nearly every major building type in all 50 United States and in 20 countries. Practice areas include health care, sports, education, government and corporate. Now part of AECOM (NYSE: ACM), Ellerbe Becket is able to draw upon additional global planning, design and engineering resources, including city and regional planners, economists, environmental planners, ecologists, landscape architects and a range of transportation, energy and water experts as needed to serve the needs of our clients.
For more information, visit www.ellerbebecket.com and www.aecom.com.
