Negative Results of Community Participation? (5-14-08)
Sometimes resident participation in the design process is not best.
Sometimes resident participation in the design process is not best.
Ariely discusses the sorts of relative comparisons humans use while making choices in his new book, Predictably Irrational.
Keinonen and his colleagues have developed a design process model that is effective at “optimizing the efficiency of user studies . . . focusing on project specific relevant information . . . ensuring the profound creativity of collaboration.”
Research by Leung and her colleagues indicates that even a 45 minute multicultural experience, of a particular type, can lead to sustained, higher levels of creativity.
People often set the value of an object or place based on a distinctive feature of that item (such as size) that is not related to the continuing experience of that object or place.
For decades scientists have been investigating whether the language spoken by a person influences the way that they perceive the world around them.
Researchers at the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada have developed a new, streamlined way to simulate the complex ways that daylight influences light levels in rooms with “dissimilar dynamic complex fenestration systems (such as windows with movable shadings) whose optical behavior (transmission, reflection and scattering) may change during simulation.”
Canada’s National Research Council Institute for Research in Construction (NRC-IRC) has developed a suite of space design software tools that are available free or for a nominal fee at their website (archived: https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/achievements/highlights/2007/daylight_autonomy_distribution.html).
As the push for new ideas grows in every segment of society, there is increasing pressure for people to be creative during the work day. Generating new ideas is never easy, so it is important that physical environment support creative work.
Research showing that architects and members of the general public prefer different buildings is old news, but a new study probes those differences in preferences and produces interesting, actionable information.