Interviews discussing the impact of design and architecture on our lives are provided for the taking in a continuing series of "oncasts". A few teasers from the line-up:
"Housing prices have skyrocketed, and it's even more costly if you want to build a home that's modern and technically innovative. Several young architects have decided that factory-built homes are the answer."
"interior designer Madeline Stuart on what's really involved in making over someone's living space, and architectural historian Sylvia Lavin and psychologists Susan Painter and Connie Forrest on the therapeutic aspects of designing a home."
P.S. In listening to the latter piece it became clear to me that designing experiences in which one of the primary goals is 'being' (esp. a home), 'feelings' is an important element of consideration. While reference to 'feelings' is often included in experience design attributes, I believe that there are distinct considerations (e.g. relative importance, ranges of, intensity of) related to feelings in experience designs where 'doing' is the more predominant goal.
P.S. to P.S. Discovered this related piece in BusinessWeek: Prefab Homes Get Fabulous
BOB JACOBSON is fascinated by the experience of experience. A planner and technologist, Bob has a Ph.D. in Urban Planning & Design from UCLA. He's been a policy researcher, technology CEO, science writer, and consultant. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied cellular telephony's impacts on transborder communities in the Nordic Arctic Circle. Bob edited Information Design (MIT Press 2000) and is now writing a book on the theory and practice of creating edifying, transformative experiences.
PAULA THORNTON says, "Understanding human behavior (economics), optimizing interactions (design) and facilitating conversations (markets), are the means to achieve strategic differentiation. This is the focus of our discipline. It is not a 'nice to have'‚ and is not, like documentation once was, an afterthought. It is the means by which to start a strategic discussion and the means by which to drive a tactical initiative. All design should be evidence-based."
1. Fred on March 18, 2006 3:10 PM writes...
"Housing prices have skyrocketed, and it's even more costly if you want to build a home that's modern and technically innovative. Several young architects have decided that factory-built homes are the answer."
Ah yes, the more things change ... (8-)
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