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Design for Wellbeing Conference

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Building livable lifestyles and shaping a harmonious new ecology of livability 
 

Location: Hall 1

The Design for Wellbeing Conference will explore how to build livable lifestyles and shape a harmonious new ecology of livability in the ever-changing environment. The three-day conference will cover a range of issues. Prestigious experts from the fields of architecture, design, real estate, healthcare, furniture, and materials will gather and discuss how to create a new workplace ecology of harmonizing space and reshaping the relationship between people and the environment through a design lens. Numerous well-known workplace and healthcare brands and service companies will display their latest products and cutting-edge solutions. 

 

Design for Wellbeing Conference 2025 Theme

Holistic design thinking creating a harmonious future

As Yuval Noah Harari, author of A Brief History of the Future, said, 'For the world of the future, the biggest constant is change'. In today's fast-changing era, change is not just a challenge. It’s an opportunity for renewal and new chances. Lifestyles and needs are undergoing rapid transformation; the pursuit of a healthy life, a work-life balance, healing and healthy spaces have become basic demands of ordinary people.

In the context of the workplace, the concept of a distributed workforce as a form of “operational agility” has gained significant momentum in recent years. This model enables organizations to leverage talent from diverse cultural backgrounds and time zones, fostering innovation and creativity. Characterized by individuals collaborating remotely from diverse locations, distributed teams offer an outstanding advantage for organizations seeking agility, resilience and efficiency in today's competitive environment, making this one of the preferred models for the future of work.

Application of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) principles to the design concept are also undoubtedly a must for the meaningful future of work. Diversity in the workplace is not just a feel-good buzzword; it's the strategic inclusion of individuals from a variety of backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.

Along with the rise of environmental consciousness, there is a growing demand for safety, sustainability, wellness and smart and contactless technologies in the workplace. Protecting against climate change has become a new employee benefit, which means that designers must have a sharper sense of environmentally friendly design. We hope to create a workspace that can adapt to embrace social change while balancing the sustainable development needs of the next generation with the imperatives of nature.

For older people particularly, subjected to the health pressures of urban life, there is more and more concern for the well- being of both body and mind, generating a richness in spirit and life with a sense of well-being. At present, the supply of healthy residential areas and apartments in China cannot meet the needs of elderly people; generation Z and millennials pay more attention to health, sleep, nutrition, fitness and psychological health design and services than the older generation. The continuous release of national policies and the needs of the health care industry have prompted more and more existing properties to be turned into elderly care facilities circuit-a whole new world of unprecedented development opportunities.

The Design for Wellbeing Conference will explore how to build livable lifestyles and shape a harmonious new ecology of livability in the ever-changing environment. The three-day conference will cover a range of issues, from flexible workplace layouts to comfortable experiences that incorporate natural elements; from intelligent workplace equipment to humanized designs that create a sense of well-being; and from healthcare-integrated urban community programmes to recreational and wellness spaces for spiritual healing. Prestigious experts from the fields of architecture, design, real estate, healthcare, furniture and materials will gather and discuss how to create a new workplace ecology of harmonizing space and reshaping the relationship between people and the environment through a design lens. Meanwhile, numbers of well-known workplace and healthcare brands and service companies will display their latest products and cutting- edge solutions.

Join us to explore more possibilities for healthy living and define new ways of harmonizing living!

 

5 Key Sub-Themes Across a 3-Day Conference

Day 1  Morning

Theme 1：The Changing Landscape – Workplace Rebalancing

In today's fast-changing era, where workplace environments are changing all the time, workplace needs to be better adapted to cope with the variability of the future. How to create a desirable ideal workplace in this challenging era? In this session, let's explore the future changes and embrace workplace rebalancing.

Key topics:

  1. Reinventing the Workplace Ecosystem

  2. Creating Space: Balancing Functionality and Aesthetics in Workplace Design

  3. Rebalancing Actions: Integrating Technology, Sustainability, and Human-Centered Design

Day 1 Afternoon 

Theme 2：Tech-Driven Transformation of the Future

Change is not just a challenge. It’s an opportunity for renewal and new balance. And with the addition of new workplace concepts and advances in technology, we are moving towards a new balance. This session takes technology as the starting point to lead you into a high performance, high-performing, creative and highly vested workplace.

Key topics :

  1. Designing High-Performance “Hybrid Workplaces”

  2. Digitalization + Intelligence: Reshaping Office Spaces and Employee Workstyles for the Future of Business

  3. Workplace Wellness and Safety: Smart and Touchless Technology

Day 2 Morning

Theme 3：Designing Diverse, Inclusive and Equitable Workplaces

As more and more companies incorporate DEI concepts into their company strategies, DEI design concepts have become an inevitable requirement for future workplace development. This session will focus on DEI's design concepts and inspire designers with real-life examples of balancing company and employee, family and work, workplace and life.

Key topics :

  1. The “hotelification” of the Workplace-Comfort and inspiration

  2. Designing for Employee Wellbeing: The Importance of Choosing Ergonomic Furniture

  3. Creating Spaces for All: Embracing Diversity in Workplace Design

Day 2 Afternoon

Theme 4：Sustainbale Workplaces

As the rise of environmentally conscious, there is a growing demand for safety, sustainability, wellness and smart and contactless technologies in the workplace, protecting against climate change has become a new employee benefit, which means that designers need to have a sharper sense of environmentally friendly design. We hope to create a workspace that can adapt to embrace social changes while considering the sustainable development needs of the next generation and the balance of nature, create a new workplace ecosystem with more warmth and vitality through innovative workspace design and reshape the harmonious coexistence between people and the environment.

Key topics :

  1. Shaping Vibrant Workplaces with Holistic Solutions

  2. Embracing Eco-Friendly and Biophilic Design Elements

  3. Imagining a Green Future: Polymorphism, Diversity, and Inclusivity

Day 3 

Theme 5：Wellness-Infused Spaces: Designing for a Healthier Future

Under the background of aging, high-stress lifestyles and growing health concerns, more and more people begin to pay attention to health care design. Population aging is the basic national condition of China for a long time in the future. At present, the supply of healthy residential areas and healthy apartments in China cannot meet the needs of elderly people, and generation Z and millennials pay more attention to health, sleep, nutrition, fitness and psychological health design and services than the older generation. In the context of national policies and industrial demand, the stock assets to pension facilities circuit is facing unprecedented development opportunities.. In this section, we will work with the industry's top designers to explore the health space suitable for contemporary lifestyle, pay more attention to the integration of health science, aesthetics and art, pay attention to the physical and mental health and social needs of residents, and pay attention to personalized, intelligent, green, community integration and health technology integration.

Key topics :

  1. Aging in Place: A New Model for Senior Living Community Design

  2. Wellness Tourism: Creating Harmonious Place for Mind and Body

  3. Sustainably-Cared Senior Living Communities

2024 Schedule

4 June

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  1. A Dialogue about cross-border convergence: Workplace rebalancing in the digital workplace
  2. AI For The Workplace Panel Discussion："Redefining Workplace Boundaries" A robust conversation about how AI and new technologies are going to completely change the way a workplace looks and functions
  3. Clubhouse for Creativity :Create places of creativity and high sense of belonging Workplace designed for different industries, different needs
  4. Designing a successful "hybrid workplace" to creat high performance
  5. Digital + Intelligence: Reconfiguring the workplace and the way employees work in the future
  6. Rebalancing Act: Harmonizing Technology, Sustainability, and Human-Centric Design
  7. Reinventing the workplace ecosystem
  8. Work-Life Balance debate：Is Distributed Workplace suitable for domestic workplace environment?
  9. Workplace Building- Balancing workplace deisgn functionality and aesthetics
  10. Workplace design Rebalancing : integration of space, humanities, and technology
  11. Workplace Wellness and Safty: smart and touchless technology

5 June

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  1. A Warm sense of technology
  2. Bringing space to life: Creating a emphthic workplace
  3. Creating Spaces for All: Embracing Diversity in Workplace Design
  4. Designing for Employee Well-being: The importance of choosing ergonomic furniture
  5. Embracing Eco-Friendly Design, Biophilic Design Elements
  6. Holistic Solutions for Dynamic Working
  7. How to create a multi-dimensional "caring space"
  8. Imagining a Green Future: Polymorphism, Diversity, and Inclusivity
  9. Inclusive: Neurodivergent Design: A Multisensory Approach
  10. Reinventing the office paradigm to create aesthetic Spaces that foster inspiration and collaboration
  11. Scenic City: A holistic approach to a sustainable model of urbanity
  12. The ‘hotelification’ of the workplace-Comfort and inspiration
  13. The Urban Paradigm: A Journey to Futureproof Sustainability
  14. Wonderful color matching and multicultural integration
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