Directional Sense; How to Find Your Way Around with guest, Jan Carpman

Directional Sense; How to Find Your Way Around with guest, Jan Carpman

Jan Carpman, PhD is a wayfinding expert with 30+ years experience on hundreds of projects in large, complex, public facilities. Believing that designed environments and their wayfinding systems should respond to the needs of the people who use them, she is proud to have involved thousands of users in her work. A skilled speaker, writer, and coach, Jan is the author (with Myron Grant) of the award-winning books, Directional Sense: How to Find Your Way Around and Design that Cares: Planning Health Facilities for Patients and Visitors. She is a founding Partner in Carpman Grant Associates, Wayfinding Consultants, Ann Arbor, MI.

Directional Sense: How to Find Your Way Around, is a guide for directionally challenged people. It explains that finding your way around is a learnable skill, not a mysterious instinct you’re doomed to live without. A lighthearted introduction to the ins and outs of wayfinding, it provides step-by-step guides to following signs, reading maps, recognizing landmarks, using GPS devices, and more. Along with anecdotes describing how everyone gets lost at times, and photos showing how being turned around is not always your fault, the book offers a wealth of practical advice to help directionally challenged people (and everyone else) confidently get from here to there. . . and back.
 

Fro more information visit www.wayfinding.com or www.directionalsense.com