Designing Safe & Welcoming Behavioral Health Spaces
To help organizations and designers create safe and welcoming behavioral health spaces, Steelcase Health synthesized their research into seven design principles that together form a multilayered strategy.
Supporting Women at Work
Shannon Cohen, an advocate of wellbeing and self-care, discusses cyclical burnout and how to think differently about productivity at work.
Centering Wellbeing in Education
When Steelcase researchers began to delve deep into the topic of wellbeing in education in 2019, they could not predict that it would become a full-blown crisis during the course of their investigation.
Dr. Lydia Bourouiba: A Perspective on Virus Transmission
Introducing Perspectives, a video series with peer-to-peer conversations on how COVID-19 has impacted work and the workplace. In this first episode, watch Dr. Lydia Bourouiba, director of MIT’s Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory, as she talks with former Steelcase CEO Jim Keane about what we know today on mitigating disease transmission at work.
Understanding Virus Transmission at Work
Dr. Lydia Bourouiba shares how she began researching disease transmission and what inspires her work with the Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory at MIT.
Tired of Sitting in Your Dining Room Chair?
What you need in an office chair – whether you’re working in the office or from home.
Wellbeing Standards Measure How Space Impacts People
Global measurement standards identify specific elements that ensure the workplace enhances people’s wellbeing.
Why We Need Joy at Work
Ingrid Fetell Lee, author of Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness, says it’s a huge misconception that joy and work are separate. She shares her radical theory — that a few simple changes to the work environment can make a dramatic difference in how people feel and perform. Read the transcript.
Going Beyond Average With Inclusive Design
Designing workplaces for “the average person” used to be philosophy aimed at satisfying most of the people, most of the time. But that also excluded a lot of people who didn’t fit the average.
Wellbeing: Core to 2020 Office Design Implications
The Steelcase Global Design Studio shares five design implications they are watching for the coming year.
Ready to Get Things Done?
Best-selling author David Allen explains how conquering that to-do list frees you to focus on more creative, meaningful work.