Premium Studio: The Loveliness Model
Premium Studio: The Loveliness Model
UCLA Extension's Premium Studio offers an exclusive opportunity to learn directly from internationally recognized practitioners in an intimate, collaborative setting. This seminar introduces Loveliness Value, a Scandinavian approach to design that begins with lived experience and the unique character of place. Participants will discover how human-centered design can create more meaningful, impactful environments while developing practical strategies for architecture and interior design. Along the way, they will gain expert insights, individualized feedback, and valuable professional connections.
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About This Course
Premium Studios are UCLA Extension’s immersive learning experience for professionals seeking more than a traditional course. Intentionally limited in size, each studio allows participants to work directly with internationally recognized practitioners through intensive studio sessions, collaborative discussions, and personalized feedback. Whether advancing a career, exploring a new discipline, or reconnecting with a creative practice, participants gain expert insights while building meaningful connections with fellow professionals.
This seminar introduces Loveliness Value, a Scandinavian methodology rooted in lived experience that places the essential qualities of a place at the center of the design process, before form, function, or program. Participants will explore how human-centered architecture creates opportunities to enhance the way we live, and learn how to identify and translate the qualities that make a place meaningful into architecture, interiors, and lasting value.
Who Should Attend
This premium experience is designed for anyone passionate about how environments influence human experience:
- Architecture professionals
- Interior designers
- Landscape architects
- Urban designers
- Creative directors
- Experience designers
- Museum professionals
- Hospitality designers
- Retail designers
- Real estate developers
- Place-makers
- Educators
- UCLA Extension instructors
- Graduate students
- Creative entrepreneurs
Core Themes
Discover how meaningful architecture begins by observing the lived experience of people rather than focusing solely on aesthetics, function, or program. Participants will learn to recognize qualities of place that are often overlooked yet deeply
Explore how empathy, observation, and human behavior become practical design tools. Participants will examine how architecture can foster connection, belonging, comfort, and
Learn Lisa Svan's Scandinavian methodology that identifies the essential qualities that make places memorable and meaningful. Participants will explore how these qualities can be translated into architecture, interiors, landscapes, and public environments.
Develop new ways of seeing the built environment through guided reflection, discussion, and studio exercises. Participants will strengthen their ability to recognize opportunities hidden within everyday places.
Move beyond immediate design solutions to consider how environments continue to shape people's lives over time. Participants will explore how thoughtful design creates lasting emotional, cultural, and social value.
Learning extends beyond the instructor. Participants will engage in thoughtful discussion, collaborative critique, and peer exchange, benefiting from the diverse experiences and perspectives of fellow professionals across architecture, interiors, landscape architecture, urban design, and related creative disciplines.
What Participants Will Leave With
By the conclusion of the Premium Studio, participants will leave with:
- A new framework for understanding human-centered architecture
- Practical strategies for applying Loveliness Value within professional practice
- Greater confidence in recognizing and articulating the emotional qualities of place
- A broader interdisciplinary network of fellow creative professionals
- Renewed inspiration for current and future design projects
- An experience that fundamentally changes how they observe, evaluate, and create the built environment
Why UCLA Extension
UCLA Extension brings together academic excellence, industry relevance, and community engagement. This summit reflects our commitment to lifelong learning, creative innovation, and inclusive education.
Accessibility & Inclusion
UCLA Extension is committed to creating an inclusive experience. The venue is ADA accessible, and we strive to ensure diverse representation among speakers and participants.
If you have accessibility needs, please contact us during registration.
Fall 2026 Schedule
Trust Building Suite 600 (6th floor)
Trust Building Suite 600 (6th floor)