Friday, October 24, 2014, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Come along on this webinar to understand why, and how to create the type of child sensitive environment that becomes a great place to be a kid. Early childhood learning environments may be the most important buildings of a child's entire lifetime. Participants will be able to: 1. Understand the implications of child care facilities on mental and physical health, school readiness and social development.
2. Understand the design process as it relates to early childhood, and who the stakeholders are for a responsible and sustainable solution
3. Understand the elements of design and construction that support developmentally appropriate indoor and outdoor spaces for early care and education
4. Understand why a child's early learning center is the most important environment of his or her lifetime.
Speakers
Mike Wells, AIA, NCARB
Mr. Wells brings the project experience of more than one hundred early education centers for children in 24 states, including more than sixty centers for Bright Horizons. He is a frequent speaker and advocate for child-sensitive design, including workshops presented for the National Coalition for Campus Children's Centers, the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, the National Head Start Association, the General Services Administration and components of the American Institute of Architects, and he has served as guest faculty for the Harvard Graduate School of Design's Child Care Design Institute. He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the Children's Environmental Health Institute, a not-for-profit child health advocacy organization, and has previously served the American Institute of Architects as president of the Dallas Chapter AIA and vice president of the Texas Society of Architects.
Bruce R. Wardell, AIA, IFRAA, NCARB - Principal, brwarchitects Mr. Wardell has designed early learning and child development environments in a wide variety of settings over thirty years of practice. While working with over 70 congregations he has worked to integrate an understanding of the impact the designed environment has on how children learn and develop in their early years. He has also designed numerous educational environments, including Montessori and Waldorf schools, associated with a variety of pedagogical approaches to early
childhood education. Recently he designed, with Bright Horizons, the Sharon L. Hostler Child Development Center for the University of Virginia Physicians Group. His firm has won numerous design awards and he has served as President of the Central Virginia Chapter of the AIA, was a founding Board Member of Central Virginia Habitat for Humanity and currently serves on the Board for the New City Arts Initiative.
This webinar is free for AIA members and $39.99 for non-members.
This webinar is 1.5 LU. More Information.
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Lynnea Garrett
Manager, Knowledge Communities
The American Institute of Architects
Washington DC
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