Designing W/Heart: Architecture, Empathy & Love Ft. Kelvin Kung Purposeful Empathy

Watch this episode to learn empathy-infused design. Kelvin Kung is a Project Architect at Gensler, a global architecture, design, and planning firm. His work is critically acclaimed for centering love, empathy and equity while unleashing the power of technology. In this episode, Kelvin shares the role of technology in design and leveraging empathy. He also shares how his lived experiences, such as the loss of his father, have guided him to developing machine-learning based surveys for healthcare professionals along with his motivations for designing the first virtual gallery for the LGBTQ+ community. 00:00 Preview 00:28 Introduction 00:48 About Kelvin Kung 01:50 Kelvin’s backstory to empathy-based design 06:09 Leveraging AI to design with empathy 12:26 Designing empathetically beyond architecture 17:15 The different lenses of architecture 19:25 Current trends in architecture and design 21:16 Gensler’s culture of empathy 23:12 Architecture in healthcare: machine-learning-based surveys for healthcare professionals 27:41 Designing the first virtual gallery for the LGBTQ+ community 30:34 Kelvin Kung’s Purposeful Empathy Story CONNECT WITH KELVIN KUNG ✩ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelvin-k-47921a117 CONNECT WITH ANITA ✩ Email [email protected] ✩ Website https://www.anitanowak.com/ ✩ LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/anitanowak ✩ Instagram https://tinyurl.com/anitanowakinstagram ✩ Twitter https://twitter.com/anitanowak21 ✩ Facebook Page https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyFacebook ✩ Facebook Group https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyCommunity ✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyPodcast Video edited by David Tsvariani