At Booth #1701, the KI suite of brands will explore how movement, adaptability, restoration, and materiality can work together to create healthcare environments designed around human performance

Modern healthcare environments are being asked to do more than accommodate care. As healthcare organizations respond to evolving care models, workforce demands, changing patient expectations, and the need to make better use of existing spaces, designers are being challenged to create environments that support the people within them while remaining adaptable for what comes next.

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At Healthcare Design Conference, the KI suite of brands will demonstrate how furniture, architectural solutions, and textiles can work together to create healthcare environments that are functional, flexible, and intentionally designed around the human experience.

At Healthcare Design Conference + Expo 2026, KI, KI Wall, and Pallas Textiles will explore how movement, adaptability, restoration, and materiality can work together to create more intentional healthcare environments that support human performance.

The KI suite of brands will showcase their combined approach at Booth #1701 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, October 17–20, demonstrating how furniture, architectural solutions, and textiles can work together to create healthcare environments that are functional, flexible, and intentionally designed around the human experience.

“Healthcare design has to account for much more than what happens inside a patient room,” said Trish Fedel, director of healthcare markets for KI. “Patients, families, clinicians, and staff all experience healthcare environments differently, and those experiences are shaped by myriad factors, from how a space is configured to how it supports movement, how it adapts over time, and how it feels. At KI, we see an opportunity to orchestrate those elements together in harmony.”

Designing for human performance

This approach is grounded in a simple premise: healthcare environments should support the people within them, not simply accommodate the functions taking place.

Three complementary design considerations bring this perspective to life:

1. Movement — how bodies flow.
   Through the Kiaura Collection™, built with Cognetic Technology™ designed and invented by Aaron DeJule, KI demonstrates how responsive seating can support movement, comfort, and human performance. Cognetic Technology is a multi-axis motion system that responds to the body’s natural center of gravity, supporting natural posture variability and effortless micro-movements while seated.
   
   Introduced at Design Days and NeoCon 2026, Cognetic Technology earned three Best of NeoCon honors in the Integrated Technology category: Best of Competition, Innovation, and Gold. The Kiaura Collection received four Best of NeoCon Gold Awards, recognizing Kiaura Task Seating in Ergonomic Task and Conference Seating, and Kiaura Lounge Seating in Sofas + Lounge and Lounge Furniture Collections.
   
   At Healthcare Design 2026, KI will offer an interactive experience with The Art of Flow, which tracks each guest’s unique motion while seated in the Kiaura Collection and turns it into a colorful visual printed on a one-of-a-kind tote bag.
   
   
2. Adaptability — how spaces evolve.
   KI Wall addresses the need for healthcare environments to evolve as care models, operational requirements, and organizational needs change. Modular architectural solutions can help designers plan for future reconfiguration while minimizing disruption to occupied environments and preserving design intent.
   
   
3. Restoration & Materiality — how environments feel.
   Pallas Textiles highlights the sensory and emotional experience of healthcare environments through color, pattern, texture, and material selection, while maintaining the performance, cleanability, and sustainability that healthcare spaces demand.

Together, these perspectives reflect a broader view of intentional well-being: designing environments with purpose and with an understanding of how physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs intersect.

Designing for every care journey

Healthcare environments are experienced differently by the people who move through them, from patients and families to clinicians, caregivers, and staff. At Healthcare Design 2026, KI, KI Wall, and Pallas will bring those perspectives into the booth experience, demonstrating how intentional design decisions can support different needs throughout the care journey.

The goal is not to prescribe designers and healthcare leaders a single aesthetic or solution, but to encourage a more intentional approach to how these elements can work together from the start of a project, designing environments that support people today while remaining prepared for what comes next.

“Human performance is not one product or one design decision,” said Fedel. “It is the result of many decisions working together, such as how people move through a space, how that space can change, what they see and touch, and how comfortable and supported they feel while they are there. That is the conversation we want to bring to this expo.”

Attendees can visit KI, KI Wall, and Pallas Textiles at Booth #1701 during Healthcare Design Conference + Expo 2026. More information can be found at ki.com/healthcaredesign.

ABOUT KI
KI manufactures innovative furniture for education, healthcare, government, and corporate markets. The employee-owned company is headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with sales and manufacturing facilities worldwide. KI tailors products and service solutions to the specific needs of each customer through its unique design and manufacturing philosophy. For more information, visit ki.com.

ABOUT KI WALL
KI Wall is dedicated to transforming spaces with a seamless blend of elegance and functionality. With a focus on style that can be seen, felt, heard, and experienced, KI Wall fulfills its purpose by bringing design visions to life, reimagining every detail to advance the spaces where people work, learn, and heal. It’s walls, reimagined. For more information, visit kiwall.com.

ABOUT PALLAS TEXTILES
Pallas Textiles is a testament to artistry, innovation, and exquisite craftsmanship. With unwavering dedication to quality, we meticulously design textiles that capture timeless beauty. Our upholsteries, panel fabrics, and privacy curtains blend intricate textures, refined patterns, and nuanced details to create effortlessly sophisticated interiors. Rooted in tradition yet ever evolving, our textiles breathe life into spaces, transforming them with depth, elegance, and enduring inspiration. Pallas Textiles is headquartered in Green Bay, Wis. For more information, visit pallastextiles.com.

ABOUT AARON DEJULE
Aaron DeJule is an industrial designer and founder of DeJule LLC, with a career spanning more than two decades focused on advancing the experience of seating. A graduate of the Institute of Design in Chicago, he has partnered with leading manufacturers to develop award-winning furniture and lighting solutions recognized with honors including IDSA Gold and NeoCon Gold and Silver. DeJule is the inventor of Cognetic Technology and designer of the Kiaura Collection, a new approach to seating that rethinks the relationship between movement, comfort, and performance.

INVENTOR & DESIGN ATTRIBUTION
Cognetic Technology™ is a patented seating innovation invented by Aaron DeJule, founder of DeJule LLC. The Kiaura Collection™, designed by Aaron DeJule, is the first seating collection built with Cognetic Technology and is exclusively manufactured by KI.

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Healthcare environments should support the people within them, not simply accommodate the functions taking place.