Well at Work: Creating Wellbeing in Any Workspace

Lunch not included.
Street parking only.
We regret that this venue is not currently ADA accessible.

Join the Neutra Institute for Survival Through Design and AIA/Los Angeles for a thoughtful program on the simple, science-backed things that can be done to help people thrive where they work—in an office or at home. Esther M. Sternberg, MD, pioneer in design and health and author of award winning Well at Work: Creating Wellbeing in Any Workspace (Little, Brown Spark, 2023) will share the research she has carried out with scientists, engineers, designers, architects and building science professionals on how workspaces can be designed to reduce stress and improve resilience.

Dr. Sternberg is a Professor of Medicine in the University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, with joint appointments in Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, and is Research Director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and Director of the UArizona Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance. 

Following the presentation a panel of design, public health, and building science experts will offer a variety of perspectives. Panelists include Penny Herscovitch, co-founder of Padlab design studio, and Associate Professor of Spatial Experience Design at ArtCenter College of Design, where she co-leads international collaborations with Tama Art University Tokyo and Chilean nonprofit children’s burn center COANIQUEM. Also Joon-Ho Choi, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Research & Creative Work and an Associate Professor of Building Science in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California (USC) and Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD, the Flora L. Thornton Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine, at the Keck School of Medicine at USC will be joining the panel. Raymond Neutra, son of the architect Richard Neutra, will moderate the panel.

Lunch is not included at this event.