Center for Innovation Webinar - Design to Value

This insight at the early design stage is extremely valuable, for example the impact on plant and building layouts can be optimised when considering the prevailing wind direction..

Greater representation in the profession ensures varied perspectives that enrich design solutions and create spaces that resonate with broader communities.. 3.The value of listening in architecture.

Satwinder advocates for a cultural shift in architectural training, moving from defensiveness to active listening.By fostering collaboration, communication, and empathy, architects can better understand client and community needs, ultimately producing more thoughtful and impactful designs.. 4.Balancing tradition and technology.

Satwinder underscores the importance of a balanced approach to design tools, combining physical models, sketches, and cutting-edge digital techniques.While digital visualisation offers incredible speed and detail, it is crucial to ensure early-stage designs remain flexible and collaborative, rather than overly polished.. 5.

Rethinking architectural education.

With rising tuition costs and evolving industry demands, Satwinder supports expanding pathways into architecture, including apprenticeships and alternative degree models.Although some great engineers are coming out of universities, the curriculum has not adjusted quickly enough to emerging trends.

Students are well-versed in chemical engineering skills; however, equipping them to work across boundaries within organisations, and across organisations to help change happen quickly, seems like a challenge for academia and industry.Creating courses which span traditional academic bastions seems important, while developing graduates into dynamic, collaborative and imaginative problem solvers is the key challenge for business.. A huge issue that is often ignored, but fundamental to the truism of “reduce” being the most important step in sustainability, is the enormous overproduction, supply, and wastage of drugs in the global ecosystem..

Some medicines are manufactured, prescribed, and sold which have little or no positive impact on human health.There is evidence that medicines commonly prescribed to women do not work.