Built for living

Here is a blog piece that I put together about a recent report on designing buildings to respond to, and to shape, the behaviour of their users. I was on the steering group of the report, which surveyed the research and evidence available on how buildings and the built environment can be designed to conserve energy and water; create healthy users and improve productivity and performance. In this piece I talk about the wide range of research that is relevant to understand how we live in and use buildings - and how much our behaviour is likely to change in response to design. This is not just about utilising the social sciences, but extends into history and other disciplines that track the norms and other cultural and social factors that shape and catalyse change in our ways of living.

http://blog.britac.ac.uk/built-for-living-how-understanding-of-humans-and-cultures-from-behavioural-sciences-to-the-humanities-are-key-to-creating-buildings-that-work/