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Join the IES for an AIA presentation on Designing for Diversity!
Tidewater IES is excited to invite you to our first in-person meeting of 2023 on Wednesday, January 25th at the The Westin Virginia Beach Town Center. IES and non-IES members are welcome to join us for dinner, drinks, and design education.
Old assumptions about “best practices” in the design of spaces were not made with everyone in mind. We are now open to renewing the question: What works best, and for whom?
In this presentation, we’ll review different elements of light (e.g. intensity, color rendering, CCT) and how groups perceive those elements differently across age, gender, ethnicity. Using research performed in office, hospitality, education, and manufacturing settings, we measure the impact of these disparate perceptions on satisfaction and productivity. Finally, we explore how changes in spatial configuration and how we produce lighting environments offer new possibilities to design for diverse workforces.
Learning Objectives:
This course is worth 1.0 AIA/CEU.
Speaker:
Mike Miner is the VP of Sales for Axolight USA. Based in Virginia, educated in Spain, he started his career in lighting in China, and has since helped to design, manufacture and market lighting products around the world. Mike researches how the design and technical aspects of lighting fixtures affect the work and wellbeing of the people underneath them.