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Experiential Design Schemas (ORO Editions), by Mark DeKay and Gail Brager, is a book full of actionable strategies for architects who seek to design for experience and nature connection. The authors' schema-based design guidance enables architects to choreograph positive experiences of dynamic environmental conditions that connect people to nature’s rhythms, countering the fallacy of neutrality and embracing the richness of variability. They propose to bring people to the center of design intentions, in support of enhancing occupant well-being and supporting environmental stewardship.

The authors will introduce the audience to the Experiential Design Schemas and respond to questions from reviewer Bob Harris (and the audience). The schemas represent a fundamental shift in thinking, from uniform space-based conditioning to a more localized people-based approach, where subtle variations alleviate experiential monotony and bring inhabitants’ feeling responses back to the center of design intentions, all in support of simultaneously minimizing energy use, enhancing occupant well-being and supporting environmental stewardship.

In collaboration with AIASF Committee on the Environment (COTE).

This virtual program is made possible with the support of ORO Editions.