Calgary Design Week: Forest to Focus - Designing Workplace Soundscapes for Human Health

We’re excited to be a part of Design Week Calgary. As part of this year’s program, DIALOG is hosting an in-studio panel exploring sound as a design material and its impact on wellbeing, focus, productivity, and inclusion in the workplace.

Drawing on perspectives from acoustics, psychology, design, and building systems, the discussion will explore how biophilic sound strategies can help create calmer, healthier, and more connected environments.

Moodsonic's Jeff Larson will be contributing alongside Bushra H., Evan Rothery, and Marjan Eggermont.

About this event

We design workplaces for what we can see…but what about what we hear? Humans evolved in rich, adaptive natural soundscapes that signal safety, rhythm, and time. Today, many interiors are dominated by mechanical hum, overlapping speech, and digital alerts...often enough to trigger stress responses, erode focus and reduce satisfaction, especially in open-plan environments.

This panel explores sound as a design material: how it shapes wellbeing, cognition and productivity, and how biophilic sound strategies can create calmer, more inclusive workplaces. Featuring perspectives from acoustics, psychology, design and building systems, we’ll share practical approaches and real-world examples—plus a few “listen differently” moments you’ll feel immediately. Hosted in-studio.

Presented by: DIALOG

Venue: DIALOG Calgary Studio

Date: August 6, 2026
5:00 pm-7:30 pm
Doors at 4:30 PM - Event Starts at 5:00 PM