Tama Duffy Day, FASID, IIDA, LEED AP
Tama Duffy Day is a nationally recognized designer specializing in the creation of healing environments. In the forefront of healthcare design leadership throughout her career, she is a Principal at Perkins+Will, and the firm’s National Interior Design Healthcare Practice Leader. Ms. Day brings an integrated planning, design and humanistic approach to her clients, her teams and to the firm at large. From the beginning of her career Tama’s interest in the measurable effects of designed environments on healing led her to critical inquiry and research. She is a spokesperson raising awareness of this correlation among her clients, peers, other professionals and leaders involved in healthcare delivery. This innovation has earned Tama many design awards. She is a frequent lecturer on the issue of healing design, has numerous published projects, and was recently elected to the American Society of Interior Design’s (ASID) College of Fellows. In 1995, she helped launch a healthcare continuing education program with the New York University, Real Estate Division and taught extensively throughout a five-year span. She recently traveled with the People to People Healthcare Design Leadership Delegation to China and presented Research Informing Design in Guilin, China. She is a member of the international Caritas Project ‘Leading by Design’, and is adjunct faculty at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, DC. She served on the Perkins+Will Board of Directors from 1997 – 1999.
Tama Duffy Day is a nationally recognized designer specializing in the creation of healing environments. In the forefront of healthcare design leadership throughout her career, she is a Principal at Perkins+Will, and the firm’s National Interior Design Healthcare Practice Leader. Ms. Day brings an integrated planning, design and humanistic approach to her clients, her teams and to the firm at large. From the beginning of her career Tama’s interest in the measurable effects of designed environments on healing led her to critical inquiry and research. She is a spokesperson raising awareness of this correlation among her clients, peers, other professionals and leaders involved in healthcare delivery. This innovation has earned Tama many design awards. She is a frequent lecturer on the issue of healing design, has numerous published projects, and was recently elected to the American Society of Interior Design’s (ASID) College of Fellows. In 1995, she helped launch a healthcare continuing education program with the New York University, Real Estate Division and taught extensively throughout a five-year span. She recently traveled with the People to People Healthcare Design Leadership Delegation to China and presented Research Informing Design in Guilin, China. She is a member of the international Caritas Project ‘Leading by Design’, and is adjunct faculty at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, DC. She served on the Perkins+Will Board of Directors from 1997 – 1999.
Ellen Lupton
Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum since 1992, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books, including Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office (1993), Mixing Messages: Graphic Design and Contemporary Culture (1996), Letters from the Avant-Garde (1996), and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002). She recently has focused on bringing design awareness to broader audiences. Her book Thinking with Type (2004) is a basic guide to typography directed at everyone who works with words. Lupton is a 2007 recipient of the AIGA Gold Medal, one of the highest honors given to a graphic designer or design educator in the U.S.
Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum since 1992, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books, including Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office (1993), Mixing Messages: Graphic Design and Contemporary Culture (1996), Letters from the Avant-Garde (1996), and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002). She recently has focused on bringing design awareness to broader audiences. Her book Thinking with Type (2004) is a basic guide to typography directed at everyone who works with words. Lupton is a 2007 recipient of the AIGA Gold Medal, one of the highest honors given to a graphic designer or design educator in the U.S.
Joel Makower
For 20 years, Joel Makower has been a well-respected voice on business, the environment, and the bottom line. He is executive editor of the acclaimed website GreenBiz.com as well as other websites, conferences, and reports produced by Greener World Media, of which he is co-founder and chairman. Makower also is senior strategist at GreenOrder, a sustainable business consultancy, and co-founder of Clean Edge, a clean-tech research and publishing firm. Makower has helped a wide range of companies align environmental strategy with business success, including Clifbar, Clorox, GE, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson and is a frequent keynote speaker at business conferences and events, and at business schools around the world.
For 20 years, Joel Makower has been a well-respected voice on business, the environment, and the bottom line. He is executive editor of the acclaimed website GreenBiz.com as well as other websites, conferences, and reports produced by Greener World Media, of which he is co-founder and chairman. Makower also is senior strategist at GreenOrder, a sustainable business consultancy, and co-founder of Clean Edge, a clean-tech research and publishing firm. Makower has helped a wide range of companies align environmental strategy with business success, including Clifbar, Clorox, GE, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson and is a frequent keynote speaker at business conferences and events, and at business schools around the world.
Christopher Sharples, RA
Christopher Sharples received his Bachelor of History and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees from Dickinson College, and his Master of Architecture from Columbia University (1990) graduating with honors for excellence in design. He was employed at Richard Meier and Partners and Aoshima Sekkei, Nagoya Japan where he worked as a project designer for three years prior to establishing SHoP Architects PC with his four partners in New York City. He has taught at Parsons School of Design, The City College, City University of New York, The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Columbia University, and at the University of Virginia as Shure Professor of Architecture. In spring of 2008, he served as a Louis I. Kahn Assistant Visiting Professor for Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture. Mr. Sharples is NCARB-certified and registered architect in the State of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mississippi and Washington D.C.
Christopher Sharples received his Bachelor of History and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees from Dickinson College, and his Master of Architecture from Columbia University (1990) graduating with honors for excellence in design. He was employed at Richard Meier and Partners and Aoshima Sekkei, Nagoya Japan where he worked as a project designer for three years prior to establishing SHoP Architects PC with his four partners in New York City. He has taught at Parsons School of Design, The City College, City University of New York, The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Columbia University, and at the University of Virginia as Shure Professor of Architecture. In spring of 2008, he served as a Louis I. Kahn Assistant Visiting Professor for Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture. Mr. Sharples is NCARB-certified and registered architect in the State of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mississippi and Washington D.C.
