Sssh! The quiet revolution

Childs, P R N

doi:10.1108/03074800610654925

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“…There is a remarkable gap in design quality research addressing workplace environments and users beyond office buildings. For example, factories, workshops and studios are not represented in 25 mental health, 37 depression, 27 thermal comfort, 28 wellbeing, 24 feelings of security and privacy 13 --Workplaces Satisfaction, 44 thermal comfort, acoustics, air quality, lighting and daylighting, 14 feelings of privacy, 38 sense of belonging 42 Environmental control, 5 territoriality and belonging, 19 social interaction and collaboration, 42 recruitment and retention 55 Productivity 5,43 Healthcare Clinical health, 12 satisfaction, 60,69,77 well-being, 20,61 indoor environmental quality, 63 safety at work 17 Environmental control, 60 walking distances, recruitment and retention 17 Quality of care 17,71 Education Satisfaction, 82 thermal comfort, 108 acoustics and lighting 83 Student enrolment, 94 attendance and absenteeism, 81 staff recruitment and retention, 84 customer footfall, 103 re-patronage intentions 102 Academic engagement and achievement, 15,18 academic research output and collaboration 96 Retail/service sector Feelings of satisfaction 112 and irritation,…”

Section: Workplacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…102 Conceptualising library users as customers leads to the prevalence of well-being outcomes for the attainment of desired behavioural outcomes, such as user footfall. 103 This questions the core purpose of libraries, producing a tension in their design and intended use between grand and 'seductive' architecture, legitimised by the attraction of regional tourist users, and smallscale neighbourhood design which prioritises the local community user. 104 Finally, a small spinoff in the educational design quality literature addresses the user in relation to historic building design.…”

Section: Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Re-conceiving building design quality: A review of building users in their social context

Watson

Evans

Karvonen

et al. 2014

Indoor and Built Environment

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Considerable overlap exists between post-occupancy research evaluating building design quality and the concept of ‘social value’, popularised by its recent application to issues of the public realm. To outline this potential research agenda, the paper reviews design quality research on buildings in relation to users and their social context where the term ‘social context’ refers to building user group dynamics, a combination of organisational cultures, management strategies, and social norms and practices. The review is conducted across five key building types, namely housing, workplaces, healthcare, education, and the retail/service sector. Research commonalities and gaps are identified in order to build a more comprehensive picture of the design quality literature and its handling of users in their social context. The key findings concerning each building type are presented visually. It is concluded that the design quality field comprises a patchwork of relatively isolated studies of various building types, with significant potential for theoretical and empirical development through interdisciplinary collaboration. Users tend to be conceived as anonymous and autonomous individuals with little analysis of user identity or interaction. Further, the contextual impact of user group dynamics on the relationship between building design and building user is rarely addressed in the literature. Producing a more nuanced understanding of users in situ is proposed as an important area for future design quality research.

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