All Outputs (115)

Open doors: Designing playful objects for dementia (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This design-based submission comprises a prototype design for a playful object for use in dementia care and the ‘Open Doors’documentary video that explains the underpinning research collaboration. LUMA is a hand-held playful object, designed for peop... Read More about Open doors: Designing playful objects for dementia.

A move into drawing (2019)
Journal Article

This article presents part of the process leading to the large-scale three-dimensional drawing entitled Weaving Lines/Looming Narratives (2013), through a series of three images. The project engaged with questions of presence and representation in th... Read More about A move into drawing.

Laugh empowered PSCI evaluation and making: Playful objects for wellbeing, emotional regulation and engagement for dementia and post stroke cognitive impairment (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Designing folding interventions for positive moments (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

People living in the advanced stages of dementia are often confined to a bed or chair and spend many hours unoccupied. Hand-based activities that are ‘in the moment’ and provide stimulation have the potential to relieve agitation, reduce stress and p... Read More about Designing folding interventions for positive moments.

Stakeholder engagement - developing a blue-green vision (2019)
Book Chapter

Fishing or fish farming: The conflict between a Crown grant of salmon fishings in the sea and other Crown rights in the sea in Scotland (2019)
Journal Article

There is a rising concern over the impact of aquaculture, particularly salmon farming, on the aquatic environment. Two Scottish parliamentary investigations have revealed concerns over the environmental impacts of the industry, particularly with rega... Read More about Fishing or fish farming: The conflict between a Crown grant of salmon fishings in the sea and other Crown rights in the sea in Scotland.

A health map for architecture: The determinants of health and wellbeing in buildings (2019)
Book Chapter

The health crisis facing society, whereby most humans suffer illness, is related to the design of the built environment. The chapter identifies key issues for built environment design professionals to improve the health of architectural environments.... Read More about A health map for architecture: The determinants of health and wellbeing in buildings.

High fatalities risk found in gulf construction (2019)
Journal Article

It is predicted that the construction industry will be growing in the future, and that could lead to an increase in risks in work safety and accidents. This paper presents the current status of occupational safety and health in the Gulf region by pro... Read More about High fatalities risk found in gulf construction.

Are we still not there yet? Moving along the gender highway (2019)
Book Chapter

This book comprises a collection of international contributions, particularly from Scandinavia, on the extent to which gender has been integrated into transport planning

Evaluating flood adaptation governance in the city of Calabar, Nigeria (2019)
Journal Article

The increasing demand for cities in developing societies to embed climate adaptation into policies and practices has implications for the governance system which mainly focus on governing by traditional hierarchical forms, and by network while neglec... Read More about Evaluating flood adaptation governance in the city of Calabar, Nigeria.

Out of place and off the grid: Dwelling on the architectural image (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper looks into the concept of displacement as sketched out by the changing conditions of living in and experiencing the city, in the context of a digitised visual culture. As the city is now changing not through the physicality of form but thr... Read More about Out of place and off the grid: Dwelling on the architectural image.

Chopping shopping? Implications of retail structural change on sector allocations (December 2019) Summary Report (2019)
Report

Retail real estate has traditionally been seen as an attractive investment class. Historically it has provided superior returns, long-term stability and income growth. It has preserved residual value, allowed for diversification and enhanced the scop... Read More about Chopping shopping? Implications of retail structural change on sector allocations (December 2019) Summary Report.

Chopping shopping? Implications of retail structural change on sector allocations: Full report - December 2019 (2019)
Report

Retail real estate has traditionally been seen as an attractive investment class. Historically it has provided superior returns, long-term stability and income growth. It has preserved residual value, allowed for diversification and enhanced the scop... Read More about Chopping shopping? Implications of retail structural change on sector allocations: Full report - December 2019.

The blue-green path to urban flood resilience (2019)
Journal Article

Achieving urban flood resilience at local, regional and national levels requires a transformative change in planning, design and implementation of urban water systems. Flood risk, wastewater and stormwater management should be re-envisaged and transf... Read More about The blue-green path to urban flood resilience.

Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society (2019)
Book

Rapid urbanization represents major threats and challenges to personal and public health. The World Health Organisation identifies the ‘urban health threat’ as three-fold: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases; and violence and injury from,... Read More about Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society.

The Lancaster care charter (2019)
Journal Article

Transdisciplinarity in energy retrofit. A conceptual framework (2019)
Journal Article

This study explores the role of Energy Retrofit (ER) in Low Carbon Transition (LCT). The literature recognises the need to move towards a transdisciplinary approach in ER, which encompasses multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity. However, the fr... Read More about Transdisciplinarity in energy retrofit. A conceptual framework.

The Ethics of Open Types (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A characteristic of the 21st century for some societies is the establishment of better healthcare systems, a reduction in infant mortality, and a growing number of adults living longer. However, these accomplishments can have a downside. For example,... Read More about The Ethics of Open Types.

Built environment education across boundaries. The case of energy retrofit as a tool for low carbon transition (2019)
Journal Article

Since the 1990s, several studies have focused on the concept of Transformative Pedagogy as a strategy to foster inter-disciplinary abilities to rise to the challenge of sustainable development. Although the impact of these transformative pedagogies i... Read More about Built environment education across boundaries. The case of energy retrofit as a tool for low carbon transition.

Architectures of Drawing: critical drawing as spatial practice (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Architectural drawing relies on long lasting traditions of projective abstraction. Often compared to such analogical processes of thinking as translation from drawing to building (Evans), these conventions define rules for constructing but also for f... Read More about Architectures of Drawing: critical drawing as spatial practice.