TheSquare

TheSquare

By corganconnectArtsDesign
Download on the App Store

TheSquare episodes

  • TheSquare Episode 10 · The 2020 Pajama Internship · w/ Halima McWilliams

    As the Human Resources Director at Corgan, Halima McWilliams is at the helm of people, operations, and culture. In the midst of the pandemic, she is charged with reinforcing a firm culture where employees are at their best and providing experiences that honor our values and the ways we connect with each other. An extension of those values, the Corgan internship program offers a practical stepping-stone that connects formal education with seasoned experience and a community of ideas and innovators. In this week’s episode of TheSquare, Halima shares how Corgan quickly adapted to the restraints and challenges of the pandemic to preserve both a talent pipeline for the industry and a meaningful experience for the summer class of interns. The four-week virtual program pursues the same spirit of hands-on experience combined with community and mentorship. Interns will tackle a design sprint with Hugo, the firm’s research and development arm, to conceptually explore and interpret the idea of ‘agility’ — producing tangible deliverables for their portfolio while building a network of mentors, probing professional strengths, and researching and testing ideas in a safe and supportive space. While the traditional program tasked interns with solving real-world problems on billable projects, this year’s class of emerging talent will press further into the fundamentals of human-centric design and interrogate the core of compelling, relevant architecture that will shape our world — all while in their pajamas. Stay tuned for what they learn and the ways they inspire a growing network of future architects and designers. 

     

    #Internship​ #VirtualWork​ #COVID19

    VISIT: Corgan.com

     

    Also connect with us on:

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CorganInc/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CorganInc/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/CorganInc

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/corgan

     

    Video Produced by: Corgan

    Have Questions? We’d love to hear from you.

    14 min
  • TheSquare Episode 09 · Urbanism Lite & Corgan Explore · w/ Unmesh Kelkar

    What binds the human experience in cities? Often, it’s the magic that happens within just a few feet—the invitation to inject new life and spark vibrant activity in the interstitial spaces between buildings. A setback, plaza, or street-level amenities can activate the streetscape and community development. Blurring the lines between public and private spaces, Corgan Explore winner, Unmesh Kelkar, investigates the concept of Urbanism Lite: the experimental and provisional nature of city making ideas. Focusing on London, New York, Paris and Barcelona, Unmesh studies the network of privately-owned public spaces and how design elements from finishes and furniture to lighting and architectural planning shape and encourage human engagement. Unmesh plans to research and compare behavior, taxonomy, organizational structure, and policy perception across these four global metropolises--tracing them for patterns and insights on the successes and challenges of more human city-making. In this episode of TheSquare, join Unmesh in exploring how the urban environment and privately-owned public spaces shape the everyday stories and connections that happen in our cities. 

    #Urbanism #CorganExplore #CityPlanning

    VISIT: Corgan.com

     

    Also connect with us on:

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CorganInc/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CorganInc/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/CorganInc

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/corgan

     

    Video Produced by: Corgan

    Have Questions? We’d love to hear from you.

    23 min
  • TheSquare Episode 08 · Design Sprints Part Two · The Inception and Design of Pera Wear
    Born out of a culture of chasing ideas and a spirit of innovation, Corgan sprints press design and our profession to confront real-time challenges and provide elegant solutions that work. Giving design a purpose, Corgan’s Robbie Good and Alexandra Ayres were part of a cross-sector team rethinking health and wellness with a new conceptual product that combines personal hygiene and the growing popularity of wearable technology. 
     
    The global COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the profound impact of biological threats and disease transmission. Coalescing around innovation and combining their passion for creative problem solving and human-centric experiences, the team comprised of members of Corgan’s interiors, branded environments, and aviation practices partnered with Hugo, the firm’s research and development arm, to create Pera. More than a wearable hand sanitizer, Pera encourages users to live a healthier life—retraining users on routine but important measures such as hand washing, enabling touchless sanitization, and empowering healthier decisions throughout their day. 
     
    In this episode of the Square, Robbie and Alexandra also share how the team navigated agile, virtual collaboration to balance good design with quick solutions that provide real-time, relevant solutions. 
     
    Driven by immediacy of use, not slick perfection, Pera inspires and represents the power of actionable design solutions—small improvements that have the potential to be powerful instruments of change when we need them most. 
    #DesignSprint #DesignCompetition #PeraWear
     
    VISIT: Corgan.com
     
    Also connect with us on:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CorganInc/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CorganInc/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/CorganInc
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/corgan
     
    Video Produced by: Corgan
    Have Questions? We’d love to hear from you.
    20 min
  • TheSquare Episode 07 · Design Sprints Part One - Alternate Care Sites w/ Guest Eric Thomson
    In the midst of a global pandemic and developing information from the CDC, government, and local healthcare agencies, it seems as if we’re all trying to find the best way forward—balancing these changes and defining a “new normal” that supports healthier, safer workplaces, schools, hospitals, airports and everything in between. In this week’s episode of TheSquare, Samantha Flores Director of Hugo and Pete Jefferson, Principal at Branch Pattern, discuss how Corgan’s “Design Informed by The Pandemic” report applies these recommendations to the built environment to create intuitively healthy spaces. Encouraging systematic and behavioral changes that extend beyond regular cleaning and social distancing, the report outlines immediate pre-vaccine strategies that are beneficial in a post-vaccine world. The report provides a guideline for applying building science and emerging technologies, data and transparent communication to our understanding of the ways we perceive and respond to our environment and explores how our response to COVID-19 has reshaped our architectural vocabularies and standards. Rather than responding to any single threat, these responses accelerate the continued demand for healthier buildings, happier occupants, and places that are rooted in the enduring benefit of human-centered design. 
    #DesignSprint #HealthcareDesign #COVIDBestPratices
     
    VISIT: Corgan.com
     
    Also connect with us on:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CorganInc/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CorganInc/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/CorganInc
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/corgan
     
    Video Produced by: Corgan
    Have Questions? We’d love to hear from you.
    22 min
  • TheSquare Episode 06 · Human-Centered Design Informed by the COVID-19 Pandemic
    In the midst of a global pandemic and developing information from the CDC, government, and local healthcare agencies, it seems as if we’re all trying to find the best way forward—balancing these changes and defining a “new normal” that supports healthier, safer workplaces, schools, hospitals, airports and everything in between. In this week’s episode of TheSquare, Samantha Flores Director of Hugo and Pete Jefferson, Principal at Branch Pattern, discuss how Corgan’s “Design Informed by The Pandemic” report applies these recommendations to the built environment to create intuitively healthy spaces. Encouraging systematic and behavioral changes that extend beyond regular cleaning and social distancing, the report outlines immediate pre-vaccine strategies that are beneficial in a post-vaccine world. The report provides a guideline for applying building science and emerging technologies, data and transparent communication to our understanding of the ways we perceive and respond to our environment and explores how our response to COVID-19 has reshaped our architectural vocabularies and standards. Rather than responding to any single threat, these responses accelerate the continued demand for healthier buildings, happier occupants, and places that are rooted in the enduring benefit of human-centered design. 
    #COVID-19 #BuildingScience #COVIDBestPratices
     
    VISIT: Corgan.com
     
    Also connect with us on:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CorganInc/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CorganInc/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/CorganInc
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/corgan
     
    Video Produced by: Corgan
    Have Questions? We’d love to hear from you.
    26 min
  • TheSquare Episode 05 · The Psychology of Trust in a Post-COVID Workplace
    Workplace expectations have changed. COVID-19 has dramatically shifted how we come to work and what we need from the office. Where glossy amenities including local kombucha and ping pong tables took centerstage in the war on talent, the global pandemic has highlighted what we may have taken for granted in human-centric design: trust. Fundamental to any relationship, trust between staff, colleagues, and employers raises new priorities including boundaries, transparent two-way communication, and accountability that are at the core of what we need to not only feel safe at work but confident about returning to the office. In this episode of TheSquare Jacquelyn Hunter, Interiors Project Design Manager at Corgan, and Jane Hensley, MRC, CRC, LPC specializing in culture and crisis management, explore the psychology of trust—the pillars of how design, both seen and unseen, shapes our confidence in the built environment and in those we work with. From material finishes to communication best practices, the return to the office and to a renewed confidence in the workplace depends on an experience founded on a series of small moments and empathetic design that responds to the vulnerabilities, mindsets, stressors, and needs of staff. Stay tuned as we continue to probe further into the power of design to build trust in these uncertain and unprecedented times. 
     
    #COVID-19 #workplacedesign #humancentricdesign 
    VISIT: Corgan.com
     
    Also connect with us on:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CorganInc/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CorganInc/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/CorganInc
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/corgan
     
    Video Produced by: Corgan
    Have Questions? We’d love to hear from you.
    30 min
  • TheSquare Episode 04 · The Art of Digital Fabrication & 3D Printing Masks During COVID19 · w/ Dylan Wells
    Dylan Wells, Manager of The Shop, sits down to talk about the evolution of Corgan’s model shop. Leading the exploration of the model shop’s function within the firm, Dylan shares insight on how to encourage a culture of design, create community within and outside the firm, and the partnership between the digital revolution and the physical, tactile world. Step inside the modern makerspace where you can push, pull, explode floor plates, and test new geometries with dynamic physical models enhanced with artificial and virtual realities and integrated with new and emerging technologies. The modern makerspace is where technology meets craft—inspiring a community of designers and engaging those that live and inhabit the spaces around us. From printing protective face shields for those on the frontline of the fight against COVID-19 to considering how to activate 3D printers across a global network, The Shop celebrates a marriage of craftsmanship and technology—not only democratizing access to these tools throughout Corgan, but also bringing its power and potential to the communities around us. 
     
    Check out Corgan's face shield fabrication on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Xw5A1Hg1C​
     
    #faceshields​ #3Dprinting​ #digitalfabrication​ 
     
    VISIT: https://www.corgan.com/blog​
     
    Also connect with us on:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CorganInc​
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CorganInc​
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/CorganInc​
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/corgan​
     
    Video Produced by: Corgan
    Have Questions? We’d love to hear from you. 
    27 min
  • TheSquare - Eps3 - The 2020 Curiosity Report
    Guests Samantha Flores and Tania White from Hugo, Corgan's R&D team, share insights from The 2020 Curiosity Report. This annual publication explores the future of design, the latest in emerging technologies, and the human behaviors propelling them forward. View the full publication, The Curiosity Report: https://www.corgan.com/story/the-2020...
    #CorganHugo #DARQ #Innovation
    25 min
  • TheSquare - Eps2 -Airports Adapt
    Aviation Studio Design Director, Scott Gorenc, discusses the ways airports are adapting and evolving during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Check out our related blog here: https://www.corgan.com/story/airports...#Architecture #Design #DesignStories
    21 min

About TheSquare

From the publisher's feed

A Corgan podcast exploring design and all things related.