About us

The occupant’s well-being is strongly dependent on the links between the built environment and the personal, cultural, economic, and social forces that drive health, productivity, satisfaction, and comfort.

IN2WIBE provides an opportunity to unite disciplinarily, culturally, and geographically diverse networks around the world.

News

  • 2024 Feb. IN2WIBE will host the 6th Workshop focusing on Convergence and Culture in Well-being in the Built Environment in Doha, Qatar on April 29 and 30, 2024. For more information, please see the flyer.
  • 2023 Sep. IN2WIBE hosted a workshop that focuses on Enabling Technologies for Well-being In the Built Environment (ET4WIBE) in Philadelphia, PA. For more information, please see the flyer and photos.
  • 2023 Jun. IN2WIBE hosted a workshop at the 18th Healthy Buildings Europe 2023 Conference in Aachen, Germany. For more information, please see the photos.
  • 2022 Sep. We hosted a 1.5-day NSF workshop on September 29-30, 2022, at USC in Los Angeles, with a focus on the future of work with an emphasis on physical and virtual workspaces and the ways to bridge them. We are pleased to have Stephanie Taylor, M.D. (CEO & Founder of Building4Health Inc.), Mr. Eric Corey Freed (CannonDesign), Dr. David Kirsh (UCSD & Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture), and Dr. Nathanael Fast (Co-Founder & Co-Director of Psychology of Technology Institute) join us for our workshop.
  • 2022 Sep. The 3rd IN2WIBE Panel is to be held on September 8th. We are pleased to have Dr. Shawn Roll (University of Southern California), Dr. Malcolm Cutchin (Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences), Dr. Melissa Park (McGill University), and Dr. Roger Smith (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee) on our panel. For more information, please see this flyer.
  • 2022 Feb. The 2nd IN2WIBE Panel is to be held on February 3rd. We are pleased to have Dr. Carol Menassa (University of Michigan), Dr. Christina Rosan (Temple University), and Dr. Leah Schinasi (Drexel University) on our panel. For more information please see this flyer.
  • 2021 Nov.  The 2nd workshop of IN2WIBE will be hosted online on November 4th and November 5th. Please access the agenda via this LINK.
  • 2021 Oct.  The paper entitled “ Occupant health in buildings: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the opinions of building professionals and implications on research” from the IN2WIBE team has been accepted by Building and Environment.
  • 2021 Sep. The paper entitled “ How Work From Home Has Affected the Occupant’s Well-Being in the Residential Built Environment: An International Survey Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic” from the IN2WIBE has been accepted by ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities.
  • 2021 Apr. The Inaugural online seminar was given by Dr. ESTHER M. STERNBERG M.D. with a discussion on Instantiating Integrative Health into Building Design: A Construct for Well-being n the Built Environment.
  • 2021 Mar. Watch the inspiring presentations in the first workshop of IN2WIBE on Youtube. Thanks to Drs. Esther M. Sternberg (Andrew Weil Center), Andrew K. Persily (NIST), Jie Zhao (Delos), and Joseph G. Allen (Harvard) for their wonderful talks.
  • 2021 Mar. The agenda for our first workshop is attached here.
  • 2021 Jan. The 1st Workshop of IN2WIBE is to be held online on March 11th and 12th, 2021. Please check this flyer for detail.
  • 2020 Dec. The paper entitled “Ten questions concerning occupant health in buildings during normal operations and extreme events including the COVID-19 pandemic” by the IN2WIBE team has been published on Building and Environment. Check the link for more details.
  • 2020 May. We launched a survey to understand (1) the level of importance building professionals assign to occupant’s health and well-being in built environments; and (2) the influence of the novel COVID-19 virus on the design, construction, and operation of healthy buildings. You are encouraged to participate in this survey.
  • 2020 Apr. With the support from the NSF AccelNet IN2WIBE (An International Network of Networks for Well-being in the Built Environment) team, we have developed a survey to study How Work from Home Affects Well-being During COVID-19. Please consider helping us to understand how occupants’ well-being in residential buildings has changed since many people are encouraged to work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic by providing your valuable inputs.
  • 2020 Jan. Our project website was officially launched!
  • 2019. Aug. Our project An International Network of Networks for Well-being in the Built Environment (IN2WIBE) (#2009754, #1931226, #1931254, #1931238) was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) ！
  • 2019 Feb. Five women professors with different academic institutions and research backgrounds planned to work together to unite the disciplinarily, culturally, and geographically diverse networks around the world to facilitate the occupant’s well-being research.

Our team

Our Collaborators

Interested in joining our network?

Shoot us an E-mail !

Our Sponsor