2024 ONEder Grant Recipients "Embracing Change: Exploring the Intersections"

One Workplace is proud to announce the recipients of the 6th annual ONEder Grant, centered around the 2024 theme of "Embracing Change: Exploring the Intersections" inspired by the ever-evolving landscape of placemaking and its profound impact on work dynamics, healing environments, and learning spaces.

"Embracing Change" encourages a deep exploration of how we navigate and adapt to the dynamic transformations shaping our environments. This ONEder theme serves as a guide to understanding the complex intersections between place and culture, behavior, design, technology, and processes. Through this exploration, we aim to uncover new insights, strategies, and solutions that might help us thrive and shape the future amidst continuous change.

Board & Vellum
Fostering Connectivity: Encouraging Workplace Attachments
In a post-pandemic world, where hybrid work models and evolving workplace cultures dominate, understanding the psychological bonds between employees and their environments is crucial. This research will provide a systematic approach to help organizations create spaces—both physical and digital—that nurture strong emotional connections, enhancing employee performance, satisfaction, and well-being.

Mahlum Architects
Building Innovation & Belonging: Re-Designing the Learning Experience
As education faces slow change and public construction remains challenging, there is an urgent need to break free from outdated models. This research focuses on transforming school design to foster innovation and belonging, addressing systemic inequity and preparing students for a complex future in shifting educational landscapes.

Perkins Eastman
Someplace Like Home: Leveraging The Science Of Hominess In Free Address Environments
In a time of changing work demands, creating office spaces that feel like home has never been more important. This research combines expertise in industrial design, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral psychology to develop affordable solutions that integrate seamlessly into modern, flexible work environments.

At One Workplace, we believe that design has the power to elevate the human experience by creating environments that inspire and support growth. The ONEder Grant embodies this belief by funding innovative research in the fields of workplace, healthcare, and learning environment design. Since its inception in 2019, the ONEder Grant program has awarded twenty-one $20,000 grants to Architecture and Design firms across Northern California and Washington State. These grants have led to unique, relevant, and timely research outcomes that continue to influence and advance the field.

Research from all ONEder Grant teams is accessible through the ONEder Grant Archives.

For more information, visit https://go.oneworkplace.com/oneder-grant or contact Carolyn Clark Beedle, 415.940.1522

###

About One Workplace:

One Workplace creates places that inspire people and transform organizations, helping companies bring their brands and cultures to life. As the West Coast’s leading workplace performance provider, One Workplace brings construction, technology, furniture and services together under one roof to create better spaces, build powerful brands, and empower stronger cultures from the inside out. For more information, visit www.OneWorkplace.com