At LEAD Innovation Studio, students will be immersed in an entirely project-based, student-driven learning experience for their core curriculum.
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Innovation Day
This year marked Hollis + Miller’s 5th Innovation Day! With more than 20 different ideas explored, in teams and individually, no stone was left unturned.
Continue readingThought Leadership: Structural Engineering
As 100% learning environment specialists, our structural engineering team has more experience designing school storm shelters than your average practitioner and are confident in providing the right solution to any educational facility storm shelter.
Continue readingNeoCon 2019: Follow function, not trend
Interior Designer, Heather Merck spent two days exploring Chicago’s Merchandise Mart for NeoCon, the industry’s largest exhibition – serving as a launch pad for innovation.
Continue readingInvestigating Integrated Design: On the Road
Design and research staff at highly successful firms have taken time to sit down with Sandy Cochran and share processes that make them successful.
Continue readingThought Leadership: Furniture Integration
Whether we’re designing for young students in Kindergarten or adult life-long learners, the benefit of furniture integration relates directly to its impact on learning.
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Sandy Cochran’s goal during her four-month sabbatical is to clarify and develop a streamlined approach to integrated design by allowing professionals from all disciplines to add to the conversation.
Continue readingThought Leadership: Environmental Graphic Design
How a student feels in class and the way a teacher feels giving a lesson makes a meaningful impact – not just on that day’s learning, but on that student’s long-term success. The feeling a learning environment evokes isn’t just about the colors, fixtures or furniture. It’s environmental graphic design.
Continue readingDesign for Digital Fabrication: Part 1
As designers of buildings, we have to fluidly change resolution in order to develop at scales, which capture our designs at their macro, off-site approach, then their more relatable, pedestrian scale and then all the way down to their micro scale: the nuts and bolts that keep our buildings watertight. An inability to change scale can be the death of a designer.
Continue readingOlathe West High School: Learning On Display
The Olathe Unified School District didn’t just want any new high school to meet the needs of its growing student population.
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