ABC of UV Lighting with Lighting Designers Jesse Smith and Kaylene Campbell

Unpacking the pros and cons of UV lighting as a viral treatment in the built environment

In order to minimize the viral spread in the built environment, designers across the world are exploring a vast array of strategies from space planning, to finishes to lighting. In today’s episode we are going to unpack UV lighting to understand the pros and cons of introducing it into mainstream built environments. UV has traditionally been used in health care applications such as surgical exam rooms to remove virus from surfaces. As designers explore how this technology translates to other market sectors we will unpack:

· Effectiveness of UV lighting as a viral treatment

· Safety concerns with using UV in public spaces

· Safe ways UV lighting can be introduced into interior environments

· Clients interest in UV lighting and predictions for technology advancement

Designing For The Unseen: Microbes in the Built Environment with Mark Fretz

We bring into focus the microbiome of the built environment to understand what is happening on a micro level to interior spaces. In this episode we address what is on designers’ minds right now, COVID-19 in the built environment.

Isolating The Design Process During Quarantine with Bill Bouchey

We are in week 10 of a worldwide pandemic. Many Architecture and Interior Design firms around the world have normalized the working from home culture. Yet we are left wondering where our collaborative design process is heading? We find in times of change we as a human race are turned upside down, brought out of our comfort zone and forced to recon with thoughts that were always there but were masked by the bustling of the daily race. In this episode industry leader Bill Bouchey joins Elizabeth Lockwood to muse on:

Resetting the design process during social distancing
Debunking the working from home culture
Explore what it means to "reoccupy"
Establishing new behavioral norms and developing guiding principles that enhance the built environment
Impact social distancing has on design thinking

10 - BC to AC Design Trends

As Interior Designers we have the power to design environments that impact the health, safety and welfare of occupants. In this episode we take a dive into 20 trends as the building industry looks for ways to minimize future pandemics. Lets pull out that crystal ball to see what interiors might look like AFTER COVID. BC TO AC.

We are all musing on how the built environment will transform in response to pandemics. Though we can not predict the future we, as designers, can start to toss ideas out there to see what will stick. Very much like the iterative process of design, the idea has to come from somewhere. Lets toss it out there, lets collaborate as an industry and start to see what will stick.