Designing for Innovation

Can buildings make us healthier and more innovative?

The light in your office. The air you breathe during the day. The materials around you. The spaces where you focus, meet, exchange ideas or take a break.

These elements are part of our everyday working lives, but how much do they shape our health, wellbeing, mental clarity and ability to innovate?

Inspired in part by the design and thinking behind the HORTUS building at Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area Main Campus, this evening discussion and apéro invites you to explore a simple but fascinating question: Can buildings make us healthier and more innovative?

At Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area, innovation is not only about science, technology and entrepreneurship. It is also about creating environments where people and ideas can thrive.

This event brings together perspectives from architecture, natural materials and environmental health to explore how the spaces around us can support focus, collaboration, wellbeing and the conditions in which new ideas can emerge.

Together with our speakers, we will discuss how light, air, materials, spatial design and indoor environmental quality influence the way we feel, think and work, and what this could mean for designing environments that support both human health and innovation.

The evening will include short inputs from each speaker, followed by a moderated panel discussion, audience Q&A and an apéro.