Building Performance
Sustainable Building
Happy at Work: 10 Design Interventions for a Better Workplace
About this course
Kirsten Ritchie identifies 10 key health and happiness attributes prevalent in the workplace that affect personal productivity and, ultimately, the fiscal bottom line of a business.
Kirsten provides suggestions for “Well Being Design” interventions, used for creating both physically and mentally healthy spaces.
You'll learn about how activity, water + nutrition, healthy air, interaction with nature, sensory environment, acoustics, lighting, ergonomics, user control, and motivation and nudges effect the health issues of employees.
Course outline
2 modules
1 hour to complete
6 minutes
of video lectures
Module 1 • 1 assignments
Watch Kirsten Ritchie's "Happy at Work" Lecture
Module 1 • 1 assignments
Watch Kirsten Ritchie's "Happy at Work" Lecture
Watch as Kirsten outlines 10 key design interventions for a healthier and happier workplace.
- Watch "Happy at Work" (06:00 minutes)
Author
Kirsten Ritchie
Principal | Director of Sustainable Design, Gensler
Kirsten Ritchie is Principal/Director of Sustainable Design, Asia/Pacific Region, for Gensler, a global architecture and design firm. In this role she serves as one of the firms leading sustainability ambassadors and evangelists, engaging staff, clients and the public on innovative and sustainable design, construction and operational thinking. She is an accomplished...
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