A HAPPI Chapter in the Story of Design and Practice Research

This week we’re publishing 2 blogs series in the series of four guest blogs reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the HAPPI reports.

In today’s blog Matthew Barac, Cass School of Art, Architecture & Design, London Metropolitan, writes about his experience of conducting architectural research for the original HAPPI report. He reflects not only what was learned from the research, but also on how architectural research and policy research needs to take account of lived experience alongside quantitative data.

“How do places and buildings come to matter to people? How can the architecture of our homes combat loneliness while promoting independence? Can good design foster wellbeing, and flexibly support social activity into our twilight years”?

To read Matthew’s blog and those by Lord Best, Julia Park and Patrick Devlin, visit our HAPPI blogs page.