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Design With Joy LLC announced today it is providing the seminar Integrated Spaces: Outdoor Rooms, Indoor Gardens. The seminar is an introduction to outdoor living trends. We will discover what physical and sensory experiences heal our bodies and spirits be it indoors or out. We will discuss the organization of outdoor elements to support and encourage healthy living indoors and out. The seminar is approved by the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation, Board of Architecture and Interior Design and the Interior Design Continuing Education Council (ASID, IIDA, NKBA, IDC, IDEC) for 8 HSW (Health, Safety and Welfare) Core Contact Hours which includes 1 hour of Barrier Free Design and 1 hour of Sustainable Design.
• Who: Interior Designers and Architects and allied professionals;
• What: Integrated Spaces: Outdoor Rooms, Indoor Gardens;
• Where: Design Center of the Americas (DCOTA), 1855 Griffin Road, Dania Beach, FL;
• When: Friday, December 5, 2008 at 8 am. – 5:15 pm;
• How: Register at the Design With Joy Online Website;
• CEs: 8 hours for Florida Interior Designers and Architects;
• Fee: $222
• Includes: Continental Breakfast, Afternoon Tea & Coffee, Parking.
The Design Center of the Americas (DCOTA) is hosting this enriching seminar specifically for the South Florida market. The DCOTA is the largest design campus of its kind, showcasing 775,000 square feet of extraordinary design products that suit the needs for any home, yacht or office project.
Throughout history artists have been striving for unity of house and garden, the Integrated Spaces: Outdoor Rooms - Indoor Gardens seminar will educate you on how to create effective and affective spaces. We will fling the doors open to invite the garden indoors and extend the functions, lines and décor of the house outdoors. This seminar begins with an introduction to outdoor living trends. We will discover what physical and sensory experiences heal our bodies and spirits be it indoors or out. We will discuss the organization of outdoor elements to support and encourage outdoor living.
Health safety and welfare issues will be discussed in relation to the nurturing effects of plants in our lives, reviewing many studies that have demonstrated how they help reduce stress, enhance and uplift attitudes, increase productivity, and improve indoor air quality. Discover which plants effectively remove toxins from the air. A minimum of one hour is dedicated to promoting and designing healthy environments with barrier free access meeting ADA requirements.
We will discuss sensitive design approaches that respect energy efficiency, economics, sustainable and nonpolluting materials. We will particularly look at “green architecture” and explore how we may introduce plants into our building material palette to improve indoor air quality and aesthetics. A minimum of one hour is dedicated to the concept of sustainable design practices for site selection and water efficiency as they relate to integrated spaces. Working in professional partnership, this comprehensive seminar will approach design in collaboration to reach beyond our professional specialty to define effective “garden” solutions uniting functions and forms.
The course creator and presenter Joy Dorst commented, “We are happy to offer Florida Contractors, Architects, Landscape Architects, Interior Designers and other professionals a comfortable, educational, and stimulating course as part of our learning opportunities that not only allow continuing education credit but also provide an environmentally friendly way to learn and grow our businesses.” The 8 CE seminar is $222 and includes continental breakfast, afternoon tea and coffee, and parking. You can register online at the Design With Joy Online website.
Ashlee Harrison, Coordinator for the DCOTA believes, “This event serves the South Florida design community by presenting CE credit seminars at a convenient, professional facility and staff committed to serving the needs of the design professional.” She further started: “Events and programs like this provide valuable continuing education and the DCOTA is committed to continuing to make opportunities like this available to the professional design community in South Florida”. You can learn more about the DCOTA events and special programs at the DCOTA website.
About Design With Joy LLC
Design With Joy (designwithjoyonline.com) is committed to providing professional success and personal fulfillment: Our courses are designed for professional success and personal fulfillment to reach “A Whole New Mind” as defined by bestselling author Dan Pink. Pink claims we're living in a different era, a different age. An age in which those who "Think different" may be valued even more than ever.” Design With Joy thinks about and delivers continuing education differently by: designing for effective communication; designing with the mind, in mind; and implementing sustainable business practices.
About DCOTA
DCOTA (designcenteroftheamericas.com) is a "trade only facility" committed to serving the needs of the design professional, DCOTA offers fully integrated amenities at our design center campus including a luxury hotel on premise, multiple restaurant options, valet services, ample on-site parking, freight forwarding and transport services, and a multi-lingual staff to serve design and associated professionals.
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