What is Social Design?
"New research using the term "social design" is difficult to find. However, “evidence-based design” has become a popular way to link planning and design research with user attitudes and behaviors. Like social design, the intention of evidence-based design is to improve architectural and human outcome measures (e.g., thermal efficiency, worker productivity, occupant satisfaction, and stress reduction)."1
"Social design is working with people rather than for them; involving people in the planning and management of the spaces around them; educating them to use the environment wisely and creatively to achieve a harmonious balance between the social, physical, and natural environment; to develop an awareness of beauty, a sense of responsibility, to the earth’s environment and to other living creatures; to generate, compile, and make available information about the effects of human activities on the biotic and physical environment, including the effects of the built environment upon human beings. Social designers cannot achieve these objectives working by themselves. The goals can be realized only within the structures of larger organizations, which include the people for whom a given project is planned.”2
1. McCunn, L. J.(2012).The Status of Social Design in Environmental Psychology.Psychology Today.
2. Sommer, R.(1983). Creating Buildings with People in Mind. Eaglewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall
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Ask the Expert Package: Consulting on personal residential and work spaces :Distant communication and online consultation on Fb or Skype
Basic Problem Solving Package: Consulting on residential, educational and work spaces: Site view, data collection, data analysis, written design solutions
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Design & Action Package: Consulting on residential, educational and work spaces, & neighborhood spaces : Site view, survey and environmental measures, data collection, data analysis, sketched designs, reports, maps
Healthy Buildings cnsultaiton: If you are not sure whether your home, your work space or other spaces you spend most of your times in it are healthy enough, you can ask us to come and check it for you. Services: site view, environmental measures and a list of action to decrease environmental pollutions from your space/
Minimalism Consultation & Interior Design Package: Consulting on residential, and work spaces from Modern and Minimalism perspective : Site view, data collection, architectural or interior design
Eco-Tech Consultation & Design Package,inclduing Solar Passive buildings and PassiveHouse buildings: Consulting on residential, educational and work spaces from sustainable and environmentally-friendly perspective : Site view, data collection, environmental measures, Architectural or urban design
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Urban Consultation & Design: Consulting on sustainable development, resiliency and smartness of communities and neighborhoods: Site view, data collections, solutions, proporsal and design
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A 12-week course (36hrs) /CAD 9000 per course,
for a class of 6 individuals each CAD1500 includes
- Lectures
- Presentation files + Extra resources
- Studios and corrections
- Certificate
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3-hours courses / Each 900 CAD per course For a class of 6 individuals each CAD150 includes:
- Lectures
- Presentation files
- Studios and corrections
5% discount for educational organizations and institutes 11% discount for students
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