Evidence-Based Design and Research-Informed Design: What’s the Difference? Conceptual Definitions and Comparative Analysis

Peavey, Erin; Wyst, Kiley B. Vander

doi:10.1177/1937586717697683

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“…These strategies suggest a decision-making ecology more similar to public health than medicine and perhaps a reconsideration of the basic premises of evidence-based practice is warranted (c.f. Peavey & Vander Wyst, 2017). For instance, Brownson and colleagues (2009) discuss Evidence-based Public Health (EBPH) as a practice involving consideration of the best available research evidence within the context of the organization, available resources, population variance and the like.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthy Places

Moore

2020

ENQ

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This 21st century has brought robust attention to the role the environment plays in human health. This article offers a mapping of the theoretical landscape to help orient and potentially connect the diverse research conducted in the areas of healthy places. The premise is that much research has been conducted within the environmental stress approach to understanding the health-environment nexus, but that additional, important work has also been conducted within both a Fit and a Place approach that provide different insights into healthy places. Each approach has its own underlying assumptions regarding the relationship between human and environment, the research questions that should be asked, the type of validity valued and praxeological assumptions. Each approach also has differing affinities with various theories of health that may serve useful in connecting Healthy Place Research to interdisciplinary research endeavors. Here it is asserted that the concepts and models of allostatic load, salutogenesis and cumulative (dis)advantage hold great promise for connecting Healthy Place Research to robust fields of health inquiry.

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Healthy Places

Moore

2020

ENQ

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“…EBD and RID apply knowledge explicitly across more phases of the design process. While EBD and RID are sometimes used synonymously (Hamilton, 2015), Peavey and Wyst (2017) suggest they have different practical implications. Finally, despite its popularity, DT still presents epistemological questions (Dorst, 2011;Micheli, Wilner, Bhatti, Mura, & Beverland, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring Informed–Design Services during the Project–Defining Phases in Commercial Interior Design

Huber

2021

Journal of Interior Design

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Given the growing recognition of design's influence on a range of performative outcomes, interior designers stand to capitalize on new opportunities-if they adeptly respond to new responsibilities. These responsibilities often begin by formulating well-defined problems, which, in turn, serve as the basis for informed-design solutions. However, the extent to which commercial interior designers offer informed-design services has yet to be identified. This study sought to understand the knowledge acquisition and knowledge application practices of commercial interior designers during the project-defining phases of the design process. It investigated these tactics by first identifying designers' perceptions of their clients' priorities and then comparing the delivery of informeddesign services across contextual factors and individual characteristics. Finally, the study examined the communication processes involved in providing these services. Survey results from 165 commercial interior designers suggest that the provision of informed-design services is influenced by client priorities, market sector, and firm characteristics. Differences were also revealed among individual factors of professional preparation, title, and experience level, with senior-level staff more inclined to perform informed-design services. Moreover, while designers seemingly value services that employ dynamic, diachronic communication processes, they most often perform those involving two-way communication. Findings point to disparities between the most frequently provided services and those designers perceive to offer the most project insight. Taken together, results suggest that designers value a range of voices, but may not always invite these voices to the table.

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“…As an example, people often confuse the terms of EBD with design research, thinking the two terms are synonymous. Peavey and Vander Wyst (2017) provided an excellent conceptual and comparative analysis of EBD and research-informed design creating a shared meaning for us using the terms in practice. I encourage all design and healthcare professionals to read the Peavey and Vander Wyst article, and hopefully, these definitions can be used not only in practice but also in future EDAC publications.…”

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“…All of these terms have slightly different meanings and applications and should not be used interchangeably with EBD or with each other. As an example, research-informed design is a design process based on applying credible research findings in integration with the project team to inform the design and achieve project goals (Peavy & Vander Wyst, 2017). The original definition of research-informed design comes from the education field and relates to research-informed curriculum design (Bentley et al, 2013) and expands the definition from only previously published or disseminated research (similar to the original definition of EBD) to include input from the project team coupled with overall project goals.…”

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