Leila Kamal, Vice President Design & Expertise
EYP

Speaker Bio
Leila Kamal is an architect and Vice President at EYP. As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team at EYP she contributes to the strategic vision and planning of the firm and manages the firm’s expanding behavioral research program which is assessing how the built environment can influence cross-disciplinary inquiry, build intellectual community, engage students in informal learning activities, and ultimately impact student learning.

Christopher Parsons of Knowledge Architecture interviews Leila Kamal of EYP at KA Connect 2015. 00:10 How do you get faculty and students to participate in research surveys? 02:00 How do you fund research at EYP? How do you justify the ROI? 03:48 Your title is the Vice President of Design and Expertise at EYP. Tell us about what that means? 05:35 How do you think about EYP’s knowledge strategy? 07:00 Why do you wait a year after a building opens to conduct your research? Do you ever go back again? 08:53 What did you learn from your research project at the College of the Holy Cross which surprised you most? 11:28 How do you scale the insights your research generates across your thirteen offices? 14:06 What’s the most difficult thing about running a research program inside an AE firm? 15:12 What did you learn about creating informal learning spaces from your research? 17:25 What is your advice to an AE firm who wants to start up a research program? 19:16 How did you ensure that your research projects are seen through to completion? 20:58 How do you separate “research for clients” and “research for marketing” at EYP? 23:12 How do you plan to expand your research from higher ed to other building typologies?

Christopher Parsons of Knowledge Architecture interviews Leila Kamal of EYP at KA Connect 2015.