Catching flights, negotiating terms, striving for the A: we spend our lives rushing and stressing over a million details every day. Today’s “get it done” lifestyle and continuous exposure to technology impacts how we live, work and interact, and poses many challenges on physical and psychological levels.
“Health and wellbeing and biophilic design are major tasks in interior design and product designers,” said Martin Lesjak, CEO and creative director, 13&9, an Austrian design firm. “We see the responsibility of architects and designers to find answers to balance this rapid development. This is what we call human-centered design.”