Sorry for the late post for yesterday. I had uploaded it but did not "publish" it so it didn't appear until this morning. My apologies for that.
Speaking of yesterday, I was on the island of Kaua'i for a
meeting at the new court house. The site is located across
the street from the airport so it is in easy walking
distance. I think the courthouse opened last year, though I
could be wrong on that, but the point is it's new and I've
never been there before.
My camera phone picture of the court didn't turn out so well I'm using a photo from our internal website. To me, it's an impressive building, although I'm told tourists sometimes mistake it for a hotel! Perhaps the court needs to put up a sign saying what it is.
The inside is also impressive. The conference room we used had one of those screens that drops down from the ceiling. A new laptop was hooked up to a LCD projector so information could be displayed on that screen. The only thing is the location of the floor electrical/data outlets don't let you rearrange the desks. The conference room seems to have been designed to provide a passive experience. That is, it seems that the architect expected someone to stand at the front lecturing to people passively sitting there. What we wanted to do was have an open discussion where everyone participated. So, to that extent, the design of the room made it difficult, but not impossible to do. Note to you planners out there, think about how to make rooms as flexible as possible so that what people need to do is facilitated.
