A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers

A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers provides step-by-step tips and lessons for gathering useful, meaningful, and socially-informed data about clients and stakeholders' experiences in architecture and interior design. It highlights the overlap between different types of projects and offers tools for communicating design success to audiences.

Format: Hardback
Length: 168 pages
Publication date: 09 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book provides a valuable set of step-by-step tips and overarching lessons about how to gather useful, meaningful, and socially-informed data about clients' and other stakeholders' experiences in the architecture and interior design professions. Authored by Michelle Janning, this guide aims to assist design professionals in conducting ongoing evaluations of design projects, creating valuable pre- and post-design evaluations, framing effective questions for improved future design, involving various stakeholders in the research process, and focusing on responsible and evidence-based human-centered design to enhance the relationship between design and people's experiences.

Examining a diverse range of both large- and small-scale project examples from various institutional realms, including healthcare sites, schools, residences, eating establishments, museums, and theaters, this book highlights not only the overlap in these types of projects but also the differences between project sizes that may impact the methods used in any given project. Additionally, it offers valuable tools for how to communicate design success to audiences, including potential clients, occupants, and other designers.

A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers serves as a go-to reference for design professionals who are interested in employing accessible social scientific methods to gather essential and practical information from people who occupy the spaces they design, all while promoting ethical, inclusive, and socially-informed practices to enhance social sustainability in the built environment. By leveraging the insights and methodologies outlined in this book, design professionals can contribute to the creation of more user-friendly, equitable, and sustainable spaces that positively impact the lives of individuals and communities.

Weight: 490g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032023977