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We are in week 10 of a worldwide pandemic. Many Architecture and Interior Design firms around the world have normalized the working from home culture. Yet we are left wondering where our collaborative design process is heading? We find in times of change, we as a human race are turned upside down, brought out of our comfort zone and forced to recon with thoughts that were always there but were masked by the bustling of the daily race. In this episode industry leader Bill Bouchey joins Elizabeth Lockwood to muse on:

• Resetting the design process during social distancing\\xa0
• Debunking the working from home culture
• Explore what it means to "reoccupy"
• Establishing new behavioral norms and developing guiding principles that enhance the built environment
• How design thinking is impacted by social distancing

Guest Summary

Bill Bouchey, FIIDA, ASID

• 30 years of design experience
• Director of Design, Interiors for HOK and leads projects out of Los Angeles and New York
• Recently admitted into the IIDA College of Fellows
• Bill has experience as a thought leader in workplace, showroom and retail environments, with an emphasis on innovation and brand presence
• His design sense is driven by the belief that interior design empowers people and transforms organizations
• \\xa0He serves on Contract magazine\\u2019s editorial advisory board and is a frequent contributor and guest speaker on design
• \\xa0IFMA Design Innovation Award for Touch Mudder Brooklyn Headquarters (nominated)\\xa0 and Design & Construction Awards (The Law Firm of Fitzpatrick, Cella, Scinto & Harper: Large Office Category)
• Interior Design BOY Best of Year 2012 & 2013
• SARA Society of American Registered Architects
• Hot off the press, NYCxDESIGN has honored Bouchey and his team at HOK the 2020 Best Creative Office for Shiseido Cosmetics. Look for the project feature in the May issue of Interior Design Magazine.

\\u201cWhat are the guiding principles that might come out of this that a portion of the world will adopt, even if this pandemic is cured and goes away?\\xa0 Because there will be someone thinking what about the next one?\\xa0 How will we approach the design of the built environment to be more immediately responsive to the next one? Those are the lessons learned that continue to unpack themselves every day in the pandemic that we\\u2019re in. They are adding up to guiding principles. That is the next place that I would like myself and my peers thinking to go because I think that is where leadership around the built environment is going next.\\u201d\\xa0

- Bill Bouchey

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