Wellness has increasingly become an important topic in contract design, and few could emphasize this point to architects and designers better than Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post, who collapsed at work from exhaustion a decade ago. As she tells the story, her body gave up and she passed out—hitting her cheek on a table and waking up to a pool of blood. “Is this what success looks like?” she asked.
Huffington started her keynote at Neocon 2017 with this message to the contract design community: “You thought you were doing furniture, but you are actually doing much more than that. Those of you who are interior designers can help make transformational differences in lives, and those of you who produce furniture can give them the tools to do so. This is a time of incredible opportunity.”