Listen to our webinar to learn more about Evidence Based Design (EBD), how to find EBD research to back your designs and more from our expert panelists Tiana Lemons and Jennifer Wilcynski from orcutt | winslow, and Lynn Kenney Koffel and Randy Carter from The Center for Health Design.

 

 

 

3 Webinar Takeaways from Olee Creative's Jennifer Zumbrun, Marketing | Product Manager:

1. Plan ahead to implement EBD into your next project.

Including EBD in a build plan is not always easy.

Implementing a successful process requires buy-in from the CEO, stakeholders, leadership such as hospital admins, interior designers, contractors and research professionals.

It is important to consider using EBD at the start of a new project to guide all teams in creating one, cohesive built environment centered around EBD and ensure all teams are aligned on the goals and there is an allowance in the budget for EBD.

 

2. Back up your ideas with research based case studies

There are numerous free case studies available from the Center for Health Design’s Knowledge Repository.

Use the search box to look for keywords to research.

 

3. Review Key Point Summaries within the Knowledge Repository.

I searched “positive distraction art” and I found the article below that supports our work with Beacon Children’s Hospital Infusion Suite below.

Example: “Pediatric Art Preferences: Countering the ‘One-Size-Fits-All" Approach"

All of the images with a significant rating contained prominent elements of nature and are as follows: castle, rainbow, waterfall, fish, deer, and flowers.

Across all age groups the images of the deer in the field, the castle with the woods, and fish underwater were rated as the top three images for the emotional selection rating.

These images not only contained nature, but also were full of color. Of these three images, the picture of the deer in the field received the highest-ranking response to question 1 for children ages 5-10 years old.

 

The image below incorporates the elements of evidence based design described in the case study mentioned above. ZGF Architects supplied the creative work and Olee Creative printed and installed the graphics. Read more about this beautiful, custom Type II wall covering project!