scholarly journals Where can I cry?: Providing for Emotionality in the Built Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Claire Ford
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Design Experiments

<p>Increasingly, research suggests that urban life is characterised by rising levels of distress (Söderström, 2017). We exist in a melee of social, political, cultural and environmental constructs, many of which require individuals to repress emotional expression and experiences. Without consciously doing so, we take cues from the designed environment as to what behaviours should be acted out in that space, and this has a direct impact on our well-being. This thesis explores how the built environment can be designed to support the emotional wellbeing of its occupants.  Current practice addressing well-being predominantly looks at cases of severe mental dysfunction (Söderström, 2017) or designing spaces that privilege physical concerns (Jencks & Heathcote, 2010). The research in this thesis is not directed towards such extreme instances of distress; it focuses on the capacity of designed environments to emotionally enable and empower all building users, taking into account a broad spectrum of emotional expression and responses to space. To accomplish this, existing literary research on emotional well-being is traversed and used to inform a series of design explorations. These aim to discover how the design of space can enable occupants to feel supported; to live their emotional lives with complete agency. A conceptual framework is developed, drawing on philosophy, psychology, sociology, neurology and geography, which informs architectural design experiments that test relationships between the body, the mind, and the architecture we engaged with.  This thesis involves a speculative approach to design research. Using design experiments at multiple scales, this thesis explores the potential of moments in the built environment where people have strong emotional connections to space, in order that a consciously compassionate design approach may be developed. Four architectural briefs are explored at three scales - installation, domestic and public scale - allowing design to inform the research. Each investigation is successive and becomes a testing ground to evaluate and critique the design outcomes prior to it. The design tests also involve progressively more architectural and interactive complexity. This sequence of design tests explores the potential of spaces to empower an inhabitant in architectural space to experience joy and sadness; to directly associate architecture with emotional well-ness.</p>

scholarly journals Where can I cry?: Providing for Emotionality in the Built Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Claire Ford
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Design Experiments

<p>Increasingly, research suggests that urban life is characterised by rising levels of distress (Söderström, 2017). We exist in a melee of social, political, cultural and environmental constructs, many of which require individuals to repress emotional expression and experiences. Without consciously doing so, we take cues from the designed environment as to what behaviours should be acted out in that space, and this has a direct impact on our well-being. This thesis explores how the built environment can be designed to support the emotional wellbeing of its occupants.  Current practice addressing well-being predominantly looks at cases of severe mental dysfunction (Söderström, 2017) or designing spaces that privilege physical concerns (Jencks & Heathcote, 2010). The research in this thesis is not directed towards such extreme instances of distress; it focuses on the capacity of designed environments to emotionally enable and empower all building users, taking into account a broad spectrum of emotional expression and responses to space. To accomplish this, existing literary research on emotional well-being is traversed and used to inform a series of design explorations. These aim to discover how the design of space can enable occupants to feel supported; to live their emotional lives with complete agency. A conceptual framework is developed, drawing on philosophy, psychology, sociology, neurology and geography, which informs architectural design experiments that test relationships between the body, the mind, and the architecture we engaged with.  This thesis involves a speculative approach to design research. Using design experiments at multiple scales, this thesis explores the potential of moments in the built environment where people have strong emotional connections to space, in order that a consciously compassionate design approach may be developed. Four architectural briefs are explored at three scales - installation, domestic and public scale - allowing design to inform the research. Each investigation is successive and becomes a testing ground to evaluate and critique the design outcomes prior to it. The design tests also involve progressively more architectural and interactive complexity. This sequence of design tests explores the potential of spaces to empower an inhabitant in architectural space to experience joy and sadness; to directly associate architecture with emotional well-ness.</p>

scholarly journals Positive impact of recreational techniques for the self-healing of the body

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreyanna IVANCHENKO
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Beneficial Impact ◽  
Cost Effective Technique

Abstract The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Reiki (as well as the effectiveness of Physical Activities) on relatively healthy individuals (not hospital patients), members of a sample of 338 volunteers, and to confirm whether practicing Reiki contributes to psycho-emotional stabilization, having a beneficial impact on mood and emotional wellbeing. For the first time, a positive confirmation of Reiki was carried out in Ukraine. The respondents were divided into two main groups: non-Reikists (individuals who did not practice Reiki) and Reikists (individuals who practiced or taught Reiki). It was found that, in comparison with non-Reikists, the results obtained by Reikists were twice as good, showing higher levels of emotional comfort, less anxiety/dissatisfaction, and more optimism, energy and self-confidence. At that, senior pupils and university students of psychology performed worse. This study confirms that the practice of Reiki is a quickly healing, stimulating, long-term, and cost-effective technique, positively influencing to positive well-being, mood and psychosomatic responses.

scholarly journals Living with buildings, living with microbes: probiosis and architecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-168
Author(s):  
Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa ◽  
Richard Beckett
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Human Microbiome ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Augmented Design

In this paper we establish a dialogue with Living with Buildings to contextualise NOTBAD (Niches for Organic Territories in Bio-Augmented Design), a multidisciplinary research project at the intersection of architecture and microbiology, sited within a wider historical discourse connecting architecture and health. Living with Buildings (2018) was organised by the Wellcome Trust to trace the changing landscape of health and architecture, setting out to show how connections between the ways we feel and the places in which we spend our lives have historically evolved as our ideas about health and disease have changed. Taking our cue from the pieces at the exhibition, we discuss how the eighteenth century saw the emergence of an imaginary of cleanliness linked to miasma theory, locating bad smells and odours as the origin of disease and resulting in the adoption of rituals of purification in buildings. Treatments of plastering, coating and whitewashing popularised in the nineteenth century are testament to a shift from olfactory to visual codes of hygiene and to the ‘antibiotic turn’ in architecture.We extend the historical analysis to suggest that architecture finds itself at a crossroads. Although there is a growing understanding of how much architecture influences our wellbeing, architectural thought still clings to the antibiotic turn. Following the tradition of exchange between architecture and medicine, we propose the notion of Probiotic Architecture as a way of framing the shifting understanding of health in architectural design, suggesting that the microorganisms that colonise humans (the human microbiome) and our built environment (the built environment microbiome) have the potential to influence our health and the resilience of our buildings. Against the backdrop of the design research project Niches for Organic Territories in Bio-Augmented Design (NOTBAD), we suggest the need to reverse notions that all microbes are bad, to and propose instead materials and prototypes that encourage benign microbial growth.

Body Image and Emotional Well Being Among Gay and Heterosexual Religious Young Men

2020 ◽  
pp. 195-224
Author(s):  
Shraga Fisherman
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Modern Orthodox

This chapter attempts to create a close-up picture of the society of Orthodox Jewish men in regard to their levels of religiosity and sexual identity. The author examines BI, emotional wellbeing, and the connection between them, among three groups of religious Israeli young men: Modern Orthodox (MO) heterosexual men, Modern Orthodox gay men (MOG), and ultra-Orthodox heterosexual men (UO). The findings pose an extremely important challenge to educators in Israel. The young men answered two questionnaires: SWLS and the Body Image Questionnaire. The BI and wellbeing scores for the MOGs were significantly lower than for the MOs and UO. The correlations between BI and wellbeing were different in each group: there was no significant correlation among the MO, among the MOGs there was a negative, medium, and significant correlation, and among the UO there was a positive, high, and significant correlation. These differences were explained by social and educational trends.

Virtual nature, inner forest: Prospects for immersive virtual nature art and well-being

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-146
Author(s):  
Jessica Laraine Williams ◽  
Susannah Langley ◽  
Ann Borda
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychosocial Health ◽  
The Body ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Biophilic Design ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Positive Health Outcomes

Over a number of decades, studies have revealed compelling relationships between experiences of the natural environment and positive health outcomes in adult communities. These psychosocial health benefits have typically been described via key theoretical frameworks in the health sciences, such as the biophilia hypothesis. Despite the body of evidence for nature design and well-being, propositions for immersive virtual nature experiences are still emerging across the fields of creativity and health. In this article, we identify the potential for immersive virtual nature art as a creative well-being intervention, articulated through a discussion of background literature and concepts leading to the development of our artwork, Inner Forest (2020–21). This article incorporates a transdisciplinary suite of perspectives across three key parts; in the first section, we review key health and design research around beneficial nature experiences, with particular emphasis on designing technological nature. Secondly, we propose considerations for immersive virtual nature experiences, as distinct from prior iterations of technological nature; these considerations are framed through discussion of our artistic and well-being rationale for designing the collaborative artwork Inner Forest. This extended reality (XR) project was developed in response to well-being challenges such as social isolation and restricted nature access- of particular valence during the COVID-19 pandemic. The artwork incorporates multisensory, aesthetic elements drawn from biophilic design guidelineswhich support creative, evidence-based approaches to designed nature and societal health. To conclude this article, we report on prospects for further scaling of the Inner Forest artwork, with ongoing scope to contribute to both nature-health design and immersive virtual nature art practices.

Dementia-Friendly Neighborhood and the Built Environment: A Scoping Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R Y Gan ◽  
Habib Chaudhury ◽  
Jim Mann ◽  
Andrew V Wister
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Neighborhood Built Environment

Abstract Background and Objectives There has been a proliferation of research on dementia-friendly communities in recent years, particularly on interpersonal and social aspects. Nonetheless, the neighborhood built environment remains a co-constituent of the lived experience of people living with dementia (PLWD) that is amenable to interventions for health and well-being in the community. This scoping review presents a narrative synthesis of empirical research on dementia-friendly neighborhoods, with a focus on the built environment and its associated sociobehavioral aspects. Planning and design principles are distilled to identify research and policy implications. Research Design and Methods We reviewed 29 articles identified through a systematic search of AgeLine, PsycINFO, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Global Health, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, and Scopus. Peer-reviewed articles that employed quantitative and/or qualitative methods in community settings were included. Results An equal number of studies focused on behavioral/psychosocial aspects of the built environment and assessment of specific environmental features. The former often used qualitative methods, whereas statistical methods were common in studies on discrete features of the neighborhood built environment. Few studies focused on rural contexts. Emerging research areas include interactions between dementia risk factors and neighborhood environments to support primary and secondary prevention. Discussion and Implications The body of literature needs expansion into planning and design fields to foster community participation of PLWD by optimizing environmental stimuli, minimizing environmental barriers, and engaging PLWD in dementia-friendly community initiatives. While evidence has accumulated on landmarks and social participation at the individual level, research at the community and policy levels is limited. This requires advanced mixed methods.

Biophilic school architecture in cold climates

2020 ◽  
pp. 1420326X2090830
Author(s):  
Mélanie Watchman ◽  
Claude M. H. Demers ◽  
André Potvin
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Cold Climates ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
School Architecture ◽  
Biophilic Design ◽  
School Settings

Designing school settings that provide a satisfying experience of nature and enhance well-being could be advantageous for children and teachers, though in cold climates prolonged periods of precipitation, restricted sunshine and low temperatures represent non-ideal conditions for fostering a connection with nature. This paper reviews research into the relationships between principles of biophilic design and well-being, with specific consideration for learning environments in cold climates. Children spend more time in school than any other place, except the home, and most of their learning activities occur indoors. Given the large portion of the day children and teachers spend within the built environment, an architect's perspective investigates these relationships. The paper examines the concepts and research findings that appear to offer the greatest potential for future architectural applications in children's learning environments. It also identifies gaps in biophilic design strategies in relation to schools and the importance of considering climatic conditions to create satisfying experiences of nature within the built environment. If biophilic design research is to lead to healthier, more comfortable school settings that present a greater connection between learning spaces and the natural environment, then to identify and define beneficial guidelines that translate readily into architecture is essential.

scholarly journals Fragments: A Poetic Approach To Place-Making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Lishak
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
The Body ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Critical Regionalism ◽  
A Site ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

The notion of regional particularity and sensitivity to place remains in constant struggle with the persistent autonomous approach evident in most contemporary architecture, which under the pressures of globalization has paved the path toward commodification and the creation of universal non-places. Meanwhile the decline of craftsmanship within architecture and the perpetual emphasis on visual images and iconic forms continues to undermine human connection to the built environment. The use of Fragments in architectural design involves a distinct understanding of perception of space that takes its theoretical basis in the communicative and situational character of Synthetic Cubism and Picturesque Landscape theory. Brought into an architectural context, these theories work in contrast to the rational approach based on proportion and perspectival imagery, bringing focus towards the experience of the body moving through space with emphasis on the poetics of construction, materiality, corporeal experience, and details that express craftsmanship, meaning, and emotion. Guided by Kenneth Frampton’s theory of Critical Regionalism with the aim of resisting placelessness, the nature of such tectonic articulation is informed by the context and specificity of a site.

scholarly journals FASILITAS KESEHATAN HOLISTIK DI KEBON JERUK, JAKARTA BARAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1181
Author(s):  
Klarissa Febriana ◽  
Diah Anggraini
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Design Method ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Outcome ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
The Body ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Health Maintenance

Millennials as a generation entering the productive stage have different perspectives and attitude towards health as health action shifted from illness medication to illness prevention/health maintenance. They also embrace holistic health principle with an accent on balance between the body, mind, and soul. Furthermore, high stress and depression rate among millennials brings out their eagerness to ‘runaway’/relax so holistic health amenities takes it’s role as a vessel to fulfill their needs of holistic health as to attempt a healthier urban life. The project is located at Jalan Panjang, Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta which is dominated by elite housing area and office complex, high accessibility, and the site located on first layer (edge of primary collector street) which makes it more exposed. The design method used in the design process is pattern language with functional design (depending on building users) and macro, mezzo, and micro environmental analysis. This holistic health amenities combines physical and mental/spiritual programs to reach holistic health and aims to general health and well-being. This project is expected to give positive outcome to its surrounding environment by making healthy lifestyle as a part of the residents’ life, improving productivity and life quality. The project is also expected to be a place where new healthy communities form as to be a retreat place that gives serenity/relaxation with nature elements integrated into the building. AbstrakGenerasi milenial sebagai generasi yang berada dalam usia produktif memiliki cara pandang serta sikap yang berbeda terhadap kesehatan seiring dengan perubahan tindakan kesehatan dari pengobatan penyakit ke pencegahan penyakit/pemeliharaan kesehatan. Mereka juga menganut prinsip kesehatan holistik dengan penekanan pada keseimbangan antara tubuh, jiwa dan pikiran. Selain itu, tingkat stres dan depresi yang tinggi di kalangan milenial menimbulkan keinginan untuk ‘melarikan diri’/relaksasi sehingga fasilitas kesehatan holistik hadir sebagai wadah untuk memenuhi kebutuhan mereka akan kondisi kesehatan holistik serta mengusahakan pola hidup urban yang lebih sehat. Proyek terletak di Jalan Panjang, Kecamatan Kebon Jeruk, Jakarta Barat dengan dominasi kawasan perumahan menengah hingga atas dan perkantoran, aksesibilitas tinggi, serta posisi tapak pada lapisan pertama (sisi jalan kolektor primer) yang membuatnya lebih terekspos. Metode perancangan yang digunakan adalah metode bahasa pola dengan perancangan bangunan secara fungsional (berdasarkan kebutuhan) serta analisis lingkungan proyek secara makro, mezo, dan mikro. Fasilitas kesehatan holistik ini mengombinasikan program yang bersifat fisik serta mental/spiritual dalam rangka pencapaian kesehatan holistik dan mengarah kepada kesehatan general serta kesejahteraan (well-being). Proyek ini diharapkan dapat memberi dampak positif bagi lingkungannya dengan menjadikan gaya hidup sehat sebagai bagian dari kehidupan penduduk sekitar, meningkatkan produktivitas serta kualitas hidup. Selain itu, proyek juga diharapkan menjadi sarana pembentukan komunitas lingkungan yang baru dan sehat serta menjadi tempat pelarian yang memberi ketenangan/relaksasi dengan integrasi unsur alam dalam bangunannya.

scholarly journals Energy Justice in Slum Rehabilitation Housing: An Empirical Exploration of Built Environment Effects on Socio-Cultural Energy Demand

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 3027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramit Debnath ◽  
Gianna Monteiro Farias Simoes ◽  
Ronita Bardhan ◽  
Solange Maria Leder ◽  
Roberto Lamberts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Energy Services ◽  
Design Elements

The interaction of energy and buildings institutes a complex socio-technical system that influences the eudemonic well-being of the occupants. Understanding these drivers become even more necessary in impoverished areas where occupants struggle to avail essential energy services. The literature indicates that energy injustice can be addressed through provisioning of comfort, cleanliness, and convenience (3Cs) as critical cultural energy services in low-income areas. This study investigates the socio-architectural influence for slum rehabilitation housing (SRH) on cultural energy services that can promote distributive justice. The methodology adopts an empirical route using data from 200 household surveys from SRH in Mumbai, India, and João Pessoa, Brazil. A model between the 3Cs and socio-architectural elements was established using Firth’s binary logistic regression. The survey results showed that the SRH in Brazil had twice the appliance ownership as compared to the Mumbai SRH. There were distinct energy service preferences in the study areas, despite common poverty burdens. The empirical results showed that the lack of socio-architectural design elements like open spaces, privacy, and walkability in the study areas demanded specific comfort and convenience appliances as a counter-response. A critical policy implication drawn was on the need for socio-architectural inclusive energy planning for distributive justice in poverty. Mitigating rising energy demand through appropriate built environment design of slum rehabilitation housing can contribute to fulfilling the UN’s SDG 7 (clean and affordable energy) and 11 (sustainable cities and communities) goals.

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