American University of Beirut (AUB)
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AUGMENTING SPACE – CONNECTING SPACE DESIGN TO WELL-BEING, PRODUCTIVITY, DATA, AND HEALTH
About The Project PI / Advisor

Project Objectives

‘Augmenting Space’ is a design-research project that links critical research and analysis to applied design methods, linking end-user data, analysis, and needs to effective strategies for space design. The project delves into the relationship between well-being, health, productivity and creativity to the design of indoor and outdoor spatial environments, extracting findings and guidelines for best innovative practices in space design. It will focus specifically on productive and collaborative spaces, from educational facilities to workspaces, and derive strategies to augment end user experience, and heighten productivity, collaboration, and creativity while ensuring a technologically smart, inclusive, and healthy indoor environment. Sustainable thinking, integration of smart technology, and community driven focus will be central to the project to insure an innovative, scalable, and replicable result.
Methods and technologies:
The project uses an applied methodology focusing on an actual case study, to propose design vision and strategy for implementation, while connecting this to research-driven phase of data collection, literature review, end-user feedback, benchmarking against similar projects, and analysis through qualitative and quantitative methods. It will primarily focus in its first stage on AUB as a case study for promoting innovative learning and collaborative environments but aims to provide replicable lessons that can be pushed towards strategic design consultancies for other institutions / organizations that wish to augment their user experience and performance.

The focus of the research will be on 5 pillars, which will be tackled from research and analysis to design solutions:
  • Well-being and health
  • Inclusivity
  • Creativity and Collaboration
  • Productivity
  • Smart environments
Academic Majors/Disciplines:
Academic Majors/Disciplines:
The project links mostly to the following disciplines, however, is also open to interested students from other fields: Architecture, Graphic Design, Landscape architecture, Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Psychology, Health Sciences, Computer Science

Preferred Skills and Experience

Skills in design, visualization and graphics, data analysis, smart technologies, well-being & inclusivity are a plus – however if you are inquisitive, passionate about rethinking space environments, understanding how the spaces we inhabit affect our well-being, and how to link that to data-driven design, then this project is for you.

PI / Advisor

Carla Aramouny

ca38@aub.edu.lb

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