As we brace for unprecedented global challenges, architects and designers have to dare to design an equitable built world for all that promotes not just well-being, but also our higher order human needs of self-actualization and self-transcendence to enable us to flourish.
How can we successfully meet this challenge?
At Contemplative Designer, we believe that the answer lies in training designers in contemplative design technology that synergizes untapped “inner technologies” with “outer technologies” of design.
In this online workshop you will :
Learn about ground-breaking findings from neuroaesthetics and psychology that will expand your ability to design spaces of flourishing more intentionally.
Engage in fun and evidence-based design practices that draw on the new science of human flourishing and ancient contemplative practices to help you build greater creative agency, foster conscious collaboration, deepen self-knowledge, and instill momentum in your daily design life.
Embrace an expansive, inclusive and interdependent way of doing Contemplative Design to create environments imbued with empathic imagination and meaning as a Contemplative Designer.
Contemplative Design Technology you will master in this workshop
1. Build your "inner sanctuary for creativity" buffer zone for design challenges
2. Declare "your Design Maxim" synergizing core Values and Intention
3. Discover the "first contact listening" in Wonder & Empathy Circles
4. Deploy the "Design Momentum Equation" to put design Intention into action
How you will design after the workshop
1.Build greater creative agency, multi-sensory awareness and resilience.
Transform auto-pilot reactions to design challenges into resources for design.
2. Deepen self-knowledge and synergize values and design intention.
A roadmap to stay on course towards your highest design objectives.
3. Foster conscious collaboration with colleagues, clients, users and design process.
Cultivate beginner’s mind where empathy and wonder reduce implicit bias and conditioned thinking.
4. Embody greater meaning and instill momentum in daily design practice.
Put design intention into action throughout the course of complex projects.
What people who have engaged in the Contemplative Design technology are saying.
"This is a groundbreaking process essential for all designers and innovators. The tools and practices were incredibly powerful to move through mental blocks, limitations and deepen my creative potential.”
Vellachi Ganesan, Lighting Designer, Associate Principal, Spectrum Engineers
“The techniques are new and refreshing, exactly what firms need right now. The methods are courageous and forward-thinking that welcome vulnerability and connection in the design community.”
Lucca Townsend, AIA, Associate, Sasaki Associates, Boston
“Contemplative Designer has helped me bring back the joy of designing through methods to create beautiful and meaningful spaces. Challenges like burn-out, fierce competition can be overwhelming !”
Madeline Amhurst, Project Designer, Gensler New York
“Contemplative Designer’s framework is timely in a world speaking out against social injustice. We might begin to see a more humane built environment that reminds us of our moral obligations to one another.”
Earl Jackson, AIA, Principal, Earl Jackson Architecture Workshop & Associate Adjunct Professor, NJIT