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Peace by Design: How Design Will Contribute to a More Peaceful World


When: January 9, 2025
Time: 10:00am Pacific
Price: FREE
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1.25 units EDAC continuing education
1.25 units AIA continuing education**
IDCEC credit also available**

CEU forms will be made available day of webinar

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A virtual exchange of experiences, insights and expectations among exemplars of the healthcare and design industries.

Dialogue Details

  • 75 minutes
  • Guided panel discussion
  • Interactive, live attendee chat with extended, facilitated Q&A
  • Post-dialogue recording, resources, and chat notes
     

 

We live in an era in which designers will make an essential and critical contribution to the health and success of humanity. Design can promote healing in healthcare environments, contribute to good mental health, reduce gun violence, and positively impact health and racial equity, all of which contribute to providing a more peaceful world. In her new book, Peace by Design, design thought-leader Mardelle McCuskey Shepley discusses the definition of design and design thinking, and evidence regarding the direct and indirect contributions of design to peace.

This webinar offers a unique opportunity to hear from Mardelle, and three of the book’s contributing authors, for a thoughtful and multi-faceted discussion on the role that designers, academics, and practitioners can have to achieve maximum societal contribution. They’ll explore peace endeavors at six scales of the physical environment: sustainable and equitable design, architecture/environmental psychology and interior design, and share their favorite examples of “peace projects.”

Join these visionary leaders who will share their real-world experiences and memorable stories from their work and leadership roles, and most importantly, a path forward towards opportunities for the future of Peace by Design. 

 

 

VOICES is The Center for Health Design’s premier visionary discussion forum. These hosted interactive webinar panels engage key leaders, from across our industry in discussions that address critical issues, trends, and opportunities of importance in Healthcare and the future of the built environment.

  • Each session will feature a panel of exemplars who will share their experiences from their unique perspectives with a guided discussion and facilitated Q&A.
  • The facilitated format will have extended Q&A with live chat from virtual attendees, post-session recording, and chat notes available.
  • The series' goals are to help individuals and organizations make a difference by illuminating key opportunities, strategies, and innovations while providing a clear link to helpful and thought-provoking resources at the end of each session.  
     

 

Learning Objectives

  • Explore ways in which design at various scales can support personal and interpersonal peace.
  • Obtain the opportunity to acknowledge your own accomplishments regarding improving human well-being through design.
  • Reflect on the meaning of “design thinking” and how it fits into traditional design practice.
  • Identify parallels between the human health goals of design practitioners and the engagement intentions of researchers.

 

Presenting Faculty

Host and Editor:

Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, D.Arch., FAIA
Jane and Gordon Lankton Professor, Department of Human Centered Design, Academic Director, Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures, Cornell University

Dr. Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, B.A., M.Arch., M.A., D.Arch., is a professor at Cornell University in the Department of Human Centered Design. She is Academic Director of the Cornell Institute for Health Futures. Mardelle is a fellow in the American Institute of Architects and the American College of Healthcare Architects. She is LEED and EDAC and WELL certified.

Dr. Shepley has authored/co-authored seven books, including Healthcare Environments for Children and their Families (1998), A Practitioner’s Guide to Evidence-based Design (2008), Design for Critical Care (2009), Health Facility Evaluation for Design Practitioners (2010), Design for Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care (2014), Design for Mental & Behavioral Health (2017) and Peace by Design (2025).

She was a recipient of the CHD Changemaker award and received a lifetime achievement award from the American College of Healthcare Architects. To enhance the link between research and practice, Mardelle worked 16 years in practice prior to becoming an academic, and has served as a consultant to architectural firms regularly since 2000.

 

Panelists

Troy Savage
Project Manager, Mazzetti

Troy Savage, BSE, Civil and Environmental Engineering., M.S. Environmental Science, M. Divinity, is a project manager at Mazzetti focusing on change management strategies around sustainability behavior/culture change services. He is the developer and administrator for the Reimagining workshop series that focuses on improvements in healthcare environments.

As an engineer his work ranges across industries, from consulting to academic to religious. While at the Yale Divinity School, he received the Yale Sustainability Award for Excellence for his work implementing the school’s sustainability plan. In 2022, he was selected for the U40 (Healthcare Design’s Best Under 40) list by the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health.

 

Erin Peavey, EDAC, LEED AP BD&C
Health & Well-Being Design Leader, HKS

Erin Peavey is an Architect and a Health & Well-being Design Leader at HKS. Erin’s passion for creating environments that support health, happiness, and well-being drives her evidence-based, user-centered approach to design. In her leadership role at HKS, she helps integrate research and practice to advance design for health, combat loneliness, and foster resilience across the globe. She is an industry scholar at Cornell’s Institute for Healthy Futures and served as adjunct faculty at The Pratt Institute and New York School of Interior Design.

Erin is a widely sought-after speaker, author and mentor. Her work on design’s role in fostering mental and social well-being has been featured on BBC, TEDx, Psychology Today, SXSW, KERA/NPR and her own podcast, Shared Space.

 

Rosalyn Cama, FASID, EDAC
President and Founding Partner, CAMA/Chair Emeritus, Board of Directors, The Center for Health Design 

Rosalyn Cama, FASID, EDAC is President and Principal Interior Designer of CAMA in New Haven, Connecticut. Rosalyn has been practicing healthcare design for over 40. A fellow in the American Society of Interior Designers, she served as president and chair of its Healthcare Specialty Network. She is Chair Emeritus of the board for The Center for Health Design. Her awards include an Honorary Doctorate from the New York School of Interior Design, the ASID Designer of Distinction Award, and the Center for Health Design’s Russ Coile Lifetime Achievement Award. Rosalyn has multiple publications including the book Evidence-Based Healthcare Design.

 

 

Many attendees of The Center for Health Design’s webinars have inquired about IDCEC approval so they can earn ASID, IIDA, and IDS CEU’s. We have looked into this and unfortunately, the cost to upload courses to IDCEC is simply too high at this time. You can still earn credit for attending our webinars by requesting a verification certificate. For further details about how to self-report CEUs to IDCEC, please CLICK HERE.  

 

**As of July 9, 2020, The Center requires a CEU management fee for AIA credits and verification certificates for all webinars and EBD Journal Clubs. Please contact Natalie Gonzalez, Project Manager, [email protected] with any questions.