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Pursuing Design Quality + Improving Quality of Life: Catalyzing Transdisciplinary Shifts in Education, Practice & Policy for Built Environments (94198)
Session Chair: Sean Creaven
Thursday, 15 May 2025 15:35
Session: Session 4
Room: Room 708 (7F)
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Cities around the globe, including in North America, have been increasingly thrown into turbulence - encountering rapid transformation, coping with shifting forces, struggling with emergent problems, and often at a loss around understanding, reaction, and responses. From social disorder and rising crime to housing affordability and health crises, to name but a few factors at play, quality of life is being threatened, tarnished or tanked. Design is one vehicle that hold real potential to support our quest for better spaces, places, blocks and neighborhoods. That said, design as it has conventionally been practiced is proving outdated, unprepared and impotent with regard to contemporary challenges. The present research is part of a 5-year well-funded pan-national project addressing ‘Quality in Canada’s Built Environment’. The project is precedent-setting for a number of reasons: the size and reach of the research initiative; the inter-sectoral composition of the network; and the transdisciplinary emphasis of the study. The author is one of the Architects of the funded national venture, and the principal investigator for one of fourteen Canadian research sites that comprise the partnership. Through a variety of methods, including case studies, community participatory research, research about design, research through design, and policy reform, the project is tackling the myriads of challenges that erode quality of life for all. Emphasis is moving from the physical and aesthetics to embrace social equity, design justice and lived experience. Voices are growing in diversity with more places opening at the design table. People and place are considered in unison.
Authors:
Brian R. Sinclair, University of Calgary and Sinclairstudio Inc., Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Brian R. Sinclair is a University Professor/Principal Lecturer at University of Calgary in Canada
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-brian-r-sinclair-phd-drhc-fraic-aia-intl-2167048/
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