IFDA-Phila Presents Toby Israel, Ph.D., "Using Design Psychology to Create Ideal Places"

Join us June 22nd, from 8:30am-4:45pm, at Drexel University, URBN Center (Media, Arts & Design) for a CEU course with Toby Israel, Ph.D. She is the founder of Design Psychology, defined as “the practice of architecture, planning and interior design in which psychology is the principal design tool." This new discipline continues to gain international attention,including in the L.A., N.Y. and Financial Times, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s “Talk of the Nation,” and “Radio Times.” 

How can you use Design Psychology to create ideal places?  In this hands-on workshop, participants complete a variety of interactive exercises from the ‘Design Psychology Toolbox’ to “design from within.” By exploring intimate connection with place, workshop members uncover their own most positive experience of past homes, neighborhoods and communities.  Drawing upon this core of best-remembered places, participants learn how to successfully ‘design-in’ social/ psychological space use needs not just traditional square footage requirements.  Designers taking this workshop learn about this meaningful and rigorous programming method that can use the next day to help them/their clients gain a personalized “Design Psychology Blueprint”- - a guideline for creating authentic, nurturing home and place.

Trained as an Environmental Psychologist, Toby is a multi-disciplinary professional with experience in design, psychology, the arts and education who applies scholarship to the “real world” practice of design. She has served as an environmental consultant in the USA and UK including as head of design research for LRK Architects and director of the Visual Arts Program for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. A former professor of architecture and psychology at the University of Lincoln (U.K.), her most recent projects and presentations involve using Design Psychology to create healing places and products such as the ‘Robe to Wellness.’ On her mission to deeply connect people and place, she likewise writes Psychology Today’s “Design on My Mind” blog and works directly with designers and clients. Her groundbreaking approach is described in her book, Some Place Like Home: Using Design Psychology to Create Ideal Places.

Schedule of the day:

• 8:30a - 9:15a - Check-in/Continental Breakfast Provided
• 9:15a - 12:15p - AM Session
• 12:15p - 1:15p - Lunch Provided
• 1:15p - 4:45p - PM Session
  

Event Venue Provided by:

Garage Parking Available at Bldg. #16 (see map below)

The IFDA Philadelphia Chapter would like to acknowledge and thank the IFDA/ Educational Foundation for the chapter grant to help make this seminar possible for the entire local design Community.