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What will be our greatest focus in 2025 toward building a culture of design throughout all the offices in DESIGN?

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What will be our greatest focus in 2025 toward building a culture of design throughout all the offices in DESIGN?

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What will be our greatest focus in 2025 toward building a culture of design throughout all the offices in PLANNING?

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What will be our greatest focus in 2025 toward building a culture of design throughout all the offices in PLANNING?

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HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE A CULTURE OF DESIGN?

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HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE A CULTURE OF DESIGN?

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What will be our greatest focus in 2025 toward building a culture of design throughout all the offices in FURTHERING EDUCATION?

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What will be our greatest focus in 2025 toward building a culture of design throughout all the offices in FURTHERING EDUCATION?

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These are the graphics we shared at the Pre-Design and Deliverables Presentation. Please review and give thoughts on our process as a journey with our client and how we promote a culture of design not only through our internal team, but to our clients?
•	What should we be more mindful of in order to create a more meaningful experience for our clients through this process?  If we talk about going on a positive journey, how do we ensure all the experiences are as positive as possible, avoiding the moments of challenge that can sour a trip and ultimately a relationship with the client?
•	How could the graphics of our process provide a clearer message of this journey and the components that are a part of it?  As a client, what do we think they are thinking when they see our graphics?  Is there a different version we use for in person meetings, vs RFQs and Interviews or internally?

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Take a look at the overview of the activity, including the last two pages of the 'function' tiles - these are a list of 12 learning modes and important elements most high school educational visioning includes. How might this differ for an elementary or middle school?

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Form Follows Function Instructions with Function Definitions

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Visibility + Presentations: What conferences do you believe we should consider to highlight our work? What topics/types of publications should we prioritize?

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Visibility + Presentations: What conferences do you believe we should consider to highlight our work? What topics/types of publications should we prioritize?

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What big questions or areas of knowledge do you feel we as a design team need to engage with regarding Educational Aspirations?

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What big questions or areas of knowledge do you feel we as a design team need to engage with regarding Educational Aspirations?

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 Is this conversation valuable? Podcast featuring an educational designer/ architect and and education professional.

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Building Better Schools That Shape the Future of Learning

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Episode · Better Learning Podcast · Matt Hansen, an architect based in Pittsburgh, discusses the challenges and opportunities in the education sector in Western Pennsylvania. He shares his background in architecture and how he transitioned to focusing on educational design. Matt highlights the funding shortage and the need for school renovations and replacements in the region.

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Simply pose a question or thought and ask for responses

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Simply pose a question or thought and ask for responses

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What is the most important design aspiration for Pfluger?

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Using Padlet for pre design: Midland ISD

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Using Padlet for pre design: Midland ISD

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A' Design Award & Competition: International & Multidisciplinary Call for Entries

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The A' Design Award & Competition is a juried design competition where a world-class Grand Jury Panel consisting of a very great number of highly experienced design professionals, prominent academics, and influential media members, evaluates each entry individually and anonymously on pre-established criteria, following blind peer-review process to ensure absolutely impartial, fair, thorough and just assessment of each entry. The A' Design Award's rigorous, meritocratic and impartial evaluation process ensures that only the most deserving designs receive recognition.

When you submit an entry to the A' Design Award & Competition, your work receives a complimentary and confidential preliminary review. This process provides valuable feedback on your design's quality and offers suggestions for improving your presentation. The primary goal of the preliminary review is to minimize presentation biases, ensuring that the evaluation of your work focuses solely on its design qualities. This meticulous approach guarantees that each submission is judged solely on its merits, fairly and equitably. The A' Design Award, with its extensive history and robust methodology, stands as an exceptionally prestigious accolade that celebrates and honours outstanding design across all industries.

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A' Design Award & Competition - Call for Entries

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Submit to the A' Design Award & Competition: Elevate and distinguish your products and projects with the prestigious A' Design Award Winner Logo.

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Here is the Pinup Protocol we shared as an example at the Pre-Design and Deliverables Presentation. Please review and give thoughts on how this process can help us promote a culture of design through productive, positive interactions with staff.

·         How do we ensure that the dialogue is fruitful to all of those attending? Should all comments be considered?

·         How do our staff feel when we don't implement their thoughts and comments?

·         What happens when a comment is given that is not a direction the design team would like to go?

·         Who ultimately decides whether a comment or direction should be implemented? Should the comments be ignored, or is there a way to turn the comment into a discussion on how the direction can be improved?

·         How do we engage the entire team with the pinup process, reviewing projects not only at the beginning, but using this tool as a way to improve our implementation and detailing of the project in DD and CD’s?

·         How do we use the guiding principles more strategically in our Pinups?

·         How do we decide and communicate what is good design during a pinup?

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The Pfluger Creative Design Brief is an internal document designed to communicate our design process as a whole.  It is a brief that gives the big idea of what our process and is the combination of all of the design and planning processes in one place.
•	Are there any components that we should consider as part of this document that are not currently included?
•	How should we use this document internally?  Is it a once read-over for new people or a reference document?

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Our building program templates have many metrics built into them to help us facilitate an accurate conversation around the space needs for our projects.  Below are a few highlights.
•	Reference projects are loaded into the templates off to the right-hand side of the building detail tab.  These project references are designed to help the team align conversations of Pfluger projects that may have that space and its SF.
•	Spaces are built around metrics of density, such as a conference room SF being set by the number of people in the room and an industry standard SF per person.  Many spaces are calculated this way if they are driven by a number of people in the room.
•	We are analyzing projects in their actual design SF to determine what is the ideal figures for the Grossing Factor For the grossing factor, it is helping inform how much % of SF in the Net Assignable areas should be allocated to things like circulation, restrooms, MEP spaces and wall area.  This information is generated by analyzing the completed design on projects to extract the figures.  These figures can be used to benchmark current projects against and provide a data point in which to analyze the design.
•	We are also analyzing the allocated % of space for each department to help facilitate a conversation around how much SF should be allocated for each department in a school.  There is no hard and fast rule to this, but it is intended to provide data for a conversation if such an issue were to arise.  This should also help clients work through more collaboration and flexibility of spaces between departments.
•	The program templates are set up as a subtractive process, showing everything that is possible with the intention to “0” out what is not desired and hiding rows.  This helps provide a baseline for all projects for a conversation of possibilities, not us dictating what is needed.

Building Program Templates are located here: T:\DESIGN RESOURCES\PLANNING\03-IDEATION

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Space Typologies have multiple purposes within our design process.  Foremost, they are designed to help facilitate conversation on space needs during the program phase.  They can be used independently to help identify the components of the building as well as the style of space, such as the type of classroom design or gym design.  This helps facilitate a more accurate program, where the client identifies the basis of the layout desired to inform programmatic needs.  They can also be used to facilitate conversation around educational learning styles in conjunction with the Form Follows Function Game.  We are in the process of creating a smaller card style resource for the game to help clients connect to physical space while they explore educational pedagogies and space adjacencies.  

Every Space Type has two pages (front and back), the first page being the educational alignments to help the client understand how a space can fit into their educational model, including alignment to TEA flexibility levels.  The second page is more of a technical resource, providing more detailed information about the space for the client as well as setting a baseline of design internally for our teams.  These spaces are designed in Revit and available to be pulled into our projects as a resource and reference for projects as a baseline that aligns to the building program.
•	Are there any suggestions on format or content that can improve the use and effectiveness of this resource?

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WHAT ARE THE CRITICAL COMPONENTS THAT MAKE UP A CULTURE OF DESIGN?

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WHAT ARE THE CRITICAL COMPONENTS THAT MAKE UP A CULTURE OF DESIGN?

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WHAT ARE THE MEASURES TO KNOW AS A FIRM WHETHER WE HAVE A CULTURE OF DESIGN?

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WHAT ARE THE MEASURES TO KNOW AS A FIRM WHETHER WE HAVE A CULTURE OF DESIGN?

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HOW MIGHT WE DESIGN NEW RITUALS THAT WOULD ENHANCE COLLABORATION AND ELEVATE OUR WORK?

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HOW MIGHT WE DESIGN NEW RITUALS THAT WOULD ENHANCE COLLABORATION AND ELEVATE OUR WORK?

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What do you believe the three greatest improvements you have seen while at Pfluger?

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What do you believe the three greatest improvements you have seen while at Pfluger?

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What do you believe is most critical for our continued development as a Design Firm moving forward?

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What do you believe is most critical for our continued development as a Design Firm moving forward?

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HOW MIGHT WE ORGANIZE THE FIRM TO ENSURE WE ARE ELEVATING OUR CULTURE AND WORK?

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HOW MIGHT WE ORGANIZE THE FIRM TO ENSURE WE ARE ELEVATING OUR CULTURE AND WORK?

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HOW MIGHT WE DESIGN A PROCESS THAT INSPIRES OUR STAFF TO CREATE AHA! MOMENTS?

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HOW MIGHT WE DESIGN A PROCESS THAT INSPIRES OUR STAFF TO CREATE AHA! MOMENTS?