2nd Anniversary Talk: Innovating in Practice

We are celebrating 2 years together as the Speculative Futures meetup group! Come and join us at Parisoma for a happy birthday hour and a talk by our members Heather and Amy.

Innovating in Practice

The challenge we find ourselves in the architecture industry is that teams are focused on resolving problems of the near future for the clients of today.  

• Where are we able to identify and test those skills and expertise that will position us to shape and design environments for the future?  

• How do you create a space for designers to design for problems of a far-reaching possible future for clients and end-users that don’t exist today?  

• And as opposed to a skunk works approach, how do you create a space that harnesses the thinking of a whole community of designers and thinkers? 

This presentation describes the why and the how of an exploration in creating that space that connected Smith Group JJR designers in offices across the country.  Learn how teams of architects were created and a challenge developed using a speculative future mindset -- to explore the implications of AI on the built environment.

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Bios:

Heather Chung

Heather Chung leads SmithGroupJJR’s Healthcare Studio in San Francisco.  She has specialized in strategic planning and healthcare design for nearly 20 years.  Her passion lies in applying divergent thinking to create the most intelligent and appropriate design responses to the healthcare industry’s evolving needs and aspirations. Her drive for a holistic understanding of the factors that shape the healthcare environment has informed her planning and programming work for healthcare providers and institutions, including UCSF Mission Bay Medical Center, Banner Health, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center, Emory Health, and Eisenhower Medical Center. She has simultaneous B.A.s in Architecture and Economics from University of California, Berkeley and an MBA with an emphasis in Strategy and Entrepreneurism from University of California, Los Angeles.

Amy Kircher

Amy Kircher is an experience designer and strategist who loves to understand and explore how people experience the world. Her passions have taken her from designing hospitals as an architect to designing products and services as a UX / Product Designer. She is unafraid of reinvention and knows the importance of Design Thinking.  She thrives in uncharted areas, unraveling complex systems, and collaborating with pioneering teams.  At Texas A&M, she earned a Bachelor’s in Environmental Design and Minor in Business Administration as well as a Masters in Architecture with a Certificate in Health Systems and Design and a Tuttle Fellowship in Health Facility Planning and Design.

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