Interior Designers & Architects
Would you like to look after your wellbeing,
stand out from the crowd
and win new clients?
L
Watch this 20min video and find out how
you can give the biggest boost to your personal development.
'Design for Wellbeing' is the online training course for architects and interior designers who quickly and easily want to learn how to design for wellbeing and apply this knowledge onto their projects.
Consciousness in the market about wellbeing is rising, and clients are increasingly asking for designers and architects who are knowledgeable about designing for wellbeing in interiors. This training course will upskill you and make you
stand out from the crowd.
WHY LEARN HOW TO DESIGN FOR WELLBEING?
According to the Fast Company, the wellness real estate in 2018 was valued at $134.3 billion and it’s projected to grow 8% in the next five years, reaching over $197 billion by 2022. It also states that the three sectors that represent the core spheres of life will see the strongest future growth: wellness real estate, workplace wellness and wellness tourism. There is no time like the present to up-skill as an interior designer to ensure you give yourself the best chance of staying ahead of competition.
The 'Design for Wellbeing' training course helps interior designers advance their careers by becoming confident and knowledgeable in designing for wellbeing. By understanding its value and how it can positively change performance, you will impress clients and increase your winning chances at bids. The comprehensive online lessons will help you quickly and easily learn the vital principles of designing for wellbeing and become confident in putting these into practise.
TRAINING COURSE
BENEFITS
COURSE OUTLINE
Part 2Process & Methodologies to support Wellbeing Implementation
A 9 lesson part. Design is a process, so to achieve spaces that support wellbeing and productivity we need to follow some relevant processes and adopt a few new tools that help designers on the job. In Part 2 the course covers the tools and processes needed and explains how to adopt them in your day to day projects.
Part 3Aesthetic Design Issues
This 11 lesson part of the course looks into all the aesthetic issues, guiding you through each and recommends how to apply them in your own projects. These include colour, texture, spatial volumes, elegance, balance and symmetry, shapes and patterns. You learn to direct the design towards supporting occupant wellbeing.
Part 4Physical Design Issues
This 12 lesson part helps designers to know the specific design decisions to look out for when designing for wellbeing. The focus is on issues such as air quality, including thermal comfort, air toxicity issues, air velocity, ventilation, lighting and illumination, planning and interior facilities.
Part 5Value and Measurement
The final 7 lesson section looks at what is 'value'. When designing for wellbeing, the focus of the conversation with clients and occupants changes from 'cost' to 'value'. The holy grail of converting the value on an interior space to a financial number is explained and the methodology shared.
COURSE STRUCTURE
You’re busy. You have commitments at work and outside work. We get it. That’s why we’ve created a training course that is easily accessible, working at a pace that works for you, alongside your daily life.
Once you've signed up, an email will be sent to you with your unique login details to access the Design for Wellbeing online training course. There you will find a list of the 5 Parts, and within them all the lessons and additional resources (see below image). The lessons are listed in order. We recommend you listen to one lesson per week to help you integrate the week's lesson into your work and study before you start with the next lesson. We believe practice is the best way to learn and in this way we hope you have a balanced workload. You can re-listen to past lessons as many times as you like and learn at your own speed. In fact we recommend re-listening to past lessons to ensure the practice to design for wellbeing is continuously supported.
COURSE SYLLABUS
Part 2a
Design in Practice: Delivering a Design for Wellbeing
- L5 User Profiles 1
- L6 User Profiles 2
- L7 Empathy & Environmental Psychologists
- L8 Selecting & Assessing Buildings
- L9 Entrance Design & User Experience
- L10 Senses & Biophilia
Resources
- Resource Notes: Lesson 6
- Resource Notes: Lesson 8
- Resource Notes: Lesson 10
Part 3
Design in Practice: Aesthetic Issues Affecting Wellbeing
- L11 Aesthetic Issues & Characteristics, and Design Fluidity
- L12 Elegance / Elegant
- L13 Balance & Symmetry
- L14 Colour 1
- L15 Colour 2
- L16 Repetition & Paterns
- L17 Shape & Proportion
- L18 Volumes and Ceilings
- L19 Symbolism
- L20 Art in Interiors
- L21 Materials & Textures
Resources
- Resource Notes: Lesson 11
- Resource Notes: Lesson 14
- Resource Notes: Lesson 18
Part 2b
Design in Practice: Delivering a
Design for Wellbeing
- L34 Soft Landings Framework
- L35 Landlord Tenant & FM relationship
- L36 Occupancy Surveys
Part 5
Value in Practice: Measuring Wellbeing
- L37 Value Introduction
- L38 Defining KPIs and UPAs
- L39 Hierarchy of interior features
- L40 Benchmarking interiors
- L41 Strategy and clarity
- L42 Measuring Productivity, Wellbeing & Financial proxies
- L43 Bringing it all Together
Watch this video to hear Elina Grigoriou describe the training course in more detail...
Elina Grigoriou is the creator and presenter of the Design for Wellbeing training programme. In her own words, she describes what you can expect to learn in each Part and why the training course is structured in the way it is.
FEES
Monthly - £60
equates to £15 per lesson
- 44 lessons covering the most important issues on designing for wellbeing, plus an introduction and summary.
- 11 monthly payments in total means you can learn within your budget capabilities.
- 1 lesson per week is emailed to you over 11 months.
- A certificate on completion of the entire training course that would satisfy professional CPD requirements e.g. RIBA, RICS etc.
- Ability to submit your project or design detail for an expert review on the wellbeing aspects by Elina Grigoriou. One project per person, up to a total of 5 projects per month, on a first come first served basis.
- Access to FAQs and the ability to ask your own questions.
- A mindfulness exercise audio recording for your own daily use.
- Access insights and feedback from other reviewed projects.
- Specialist reading lists as part of each lesson to deepen your knowledge and increase your confidence.
-
VAT is included in the fee.
Complete course - £530
equates to £12 per lesson
TRY A LESSON FOR FREE
To receive an email with the link to our inspiring lesson on Beauty & Harmony for free and to join our mailing list to receive our quarterly newsletter, informative articles, news of activities or events on designing for wellbeing, please complete your details below.
You can unsubscribe anytime. We do not share any information with other parties. For more details, view our Privacy Notice.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
Emily Draper, Interior Designer
My aim of enrolling on the course was to develop knowledge and tools with which to turn the 'Design for Wellbeing' rhetoric into day to day practice. Undoubtedly, the course has given me an excellent springboard to do this. It's great to be able to revisit and dip in and out of sessions to refresh certain topics as and when needed. The most surprising element has been how much it has enhanced my own sense of wellbeing. The course has proved to be a productive focus. The meditation exercise and active listening session I have found immensely rewarding and utilised both in and outside of work with huge success. These skills alone have been invaluable. I work for an interior design practice that focusses on residential projects so it's been fascinating to see examples of Elina's design processes applied to commercial (as well as residential) contexts; this has encouraged me to think beyond the settings I'm more familiar with designing for thereby gently stretching my learning beyond the comfort zone! Despite not having a degree in interior design I found the content accessible and it has inspired me to deepen my knowledge of mindfulness as well as interior architecture. It has been an extremely useful learning opportunity.
Dr. Joe Croft, Head of Sustainability, Overbury & Morgan Lovell
Our team found the ‘Designing Wellbeing in the Workplace’ training days a really exceptional piece of training. The engaging approach initially de-constructed the fundamentals of wellbeing and then built up an array of tools and approaches for our designers to consider during future projects. Much of our team left the session feeling both energised and inspired by Elina’s passion for designing spaces which maximise occupant wellbeing.
Upstream Sustainability Services, Jones Lang LaSalle
The expertise and enthusiasm that the Grigoriou team have about workplace productivity and wellbeing is inspiring. In the presentation to us, their illustration of the design features contributing to productive and enjoyable commercial spaces and the evidence to support the thinking was compelling– it really provoked some ideas within the team about how our clients could integrate these into their refurbishments and fit-out projects."...exceptional piece of training..."
What is the real value in doing the
'Design for Wellbeing' training course?
THE TUTOR
ELINA GRIGORIOU FRSA HonRICS
Elina Grigoriou is a London-based Interior Designer, Sustainability and Wellbeing Expert who passionately believes that style and sustainability can be mutually inclusive. With 18 years experience in the commercial interior design sector, she has extensive knowledge of human-centric design to complement her natural creative talent and passion for sustainability. She is an industry specialist in designing for wellbeing, conducting research and applying knowledge at every opportunity, continuously raising awareness of best practice on designing for wellbeing and sustainability in the built environment.
Elina is an RICS Accredited SKA rating assessor and her involvement since 2007 in the SKA rating initiative has been instrumental in bringing the system into effect. She represents Grigoriou Interiors as a RICS SKA Development Partner, and is the SKA Technical Advisor to the RICS as well as Chair of the SKA Technical Committee. In 2017, Elina was awarded Honorary Membership to the RICS in recognition of her dedication and work promoting sustainability in the property sector and was presented to HM Queen Elizabeth during the 2018 RICS 150th anniversary as an example of its work on national and global sustainability efforts.
Due to her leadership thinking, Elina is regularly invited by industry bodies to participate in steering meetings, inspire audiences at public events, participate in industry or social debates, contribute in research work and is a frequent contributor to articles on design, wellbeing and sustainability. Significant industry contributions include the 2014 WGBC report ‘Health Wellbeing and Productivity in Offices” and a 2014 Feeling Good Foundation white paper ‘Wellbeing Matters: assessing views on the impact of the built environment on wellbeing.’
Elina was commissioned by RIBA Publishing to write a book on ‘Wellbeing in Interiors: Philosophy, design and value in practice'.
Elina is the Co-Founder of Grigoriou Interiors, one of the UK’s most forward-thinking design and sustainability studios. Elina
is passionate about designing beautiful interiors that ensure the wellbeing of people and the environment; her extensive knowledge of human-centric design is complemented by an eye for aesthetics and in-depth sustainability know-how.
An industry expert on wellbeing in interiors, Elina works to raise awareness of best practice in designing for wellbeing and sustainability in the built environment. Since 2011, Elina and her team have been developing A Better Place - a new wellbeing evaluation framework for interior environments. Aimed specifically for the fit-out sector, it is the first system of its kind to consider all aesthetic design characteristics and places users at the centre. A Better Place provides clients and their designers with clarity on how to harmonise their occupied spaces with the needs of employees and owners while supporting wellbeing and enabling productivity. Because good design is a good investment, A Better Place also provides a framework for evaluating return on investment.
Wellbeing [and sustainability] projects include designing ‘The Base’, Virgin Atlantic’s £20m cabin crew training centre in Crawley; Huckletree’s first co-working branch in Clerkenwell; Starwood Hotels & Resorts’ most sustainable stand saving €200,000 in annual operating costs; supporting GVA Grimley, Derwent London and Virgin Management achieve SKA Gold for their London offices; and conducting a wellbeing evaluation study for a major British retail landlord’s shopping centre management suite.
In her personal time, Elina is a Tutor at the School of Philosophy & Economic Science in London.
On a personal note she likes: critical thinking, kindness and inclusivity, design in all forms, visiting galleries, experiencing real culture, caring for animals, listening to music, reading fabulous philosophy books, protecting the natural environment, swimming for hours in the Serpentine throughout the year, dancing, studying Practical Philosophy, collaborating with people and being part of teams, flowers.
Don’t go there: un-reasoned conversations, pollution and waste of resources, malfunctioning IT equipment, January weather, boring industry exhibitions, “because we have always done it like that” mentality, people that are out to cut costs without thinking of the human and natural capital impacts, clients who don’t understand that ‘design’ is a process of good thinking and de-risking.
Motto: Get Excited & Make Great Things Happen!
DO GET IN TOUCH
hello@designforwellbeing.co.uk
tel: +44 20 7580 0611
Grigoriou Interiors | The Building Centre, 26 Store Street | London WC1E 7BT | United Kingdom
Copyright 2019 Grigoriou Interiors Limited. | Privacy Notice | Terms of Use
