Focusing on three ludic journeys through an autoethnographic account of Wellington, New Zealand, this paper explores how the performance of playful movements can alter the meaning, practice, and feeling of urban spaces. Attention is drawn to becoming hybrid, how technology mediates and augments the power to transform the everyday and support playful engagement with the city. These three ludic stories focus on e-scootering, cycling, and playing an augmented reality game, and highlight how play orientates our bodies through a sense of ‘with-ness’, with our environment and others. It also looks at orientations of ‘against-ness’, a leaning away from the materiality of objects, spaces, and events through play. This paper concludes by drawing on how space feels, and how it may open up the design potentials that these mediated practices offer.

This paper reveals how a popular UK reality TV programme Your Home Made Perfect mobilises emotions to challenge conceptualisations of architecture while simultaneously reinforcing regressive ideas of race, class and sexuality. Drawing on our thematic analysis of fourteen episodes of Your Home, the paper shows how architectural entertainment is uniquely positioned through the use of VR technology, to generate and mobilise client emotions, towards critique. This includes the critique of architectural drawings and the power imbalances of architect-client relationships. We trace how ‘happy’ emotions are tied to being able to read architectural visualisations through virtual reality (VR) rather than the ‘sad’ emotion enforced by traditional architectural forms of communication; how positive emotions fostered through care-in-action attach to the architecture and home. By foregrounding clients' emotional responses to the redesign of their homes by architects, the paper reveals architectural entertainment programmes as popular and powerful forms of architectural critique that nonetheless simultaneously reinforce exclusionary social logics that limits owner-occupation for the white middle class. In so doing, this paper contributes to unpacking both the emotional value of architecture and how this complex form of taste-making occurs within popular culture, that is, conveying to people the place of architecture within society.

In this paper we consider how playful mobilities mediate and augment the power to transform the everyday and support a playful engagement with the city through design. Like other forms of mobility, playful mobilities is embodied; it involves multiple interactions with bodies, and different forms of movement within and through space. Drawing from playful mobilities, this paper explores how play can inform design decisions to compel action and affect, and offers insight into the nexus between playful mobilities and speculative design interventions. It draws on mobile autoethnography diaries focusing on e-scootering, cycling, and playing Pokemon Go to highlight how play orientates our bodies with our environment and others. Along with the site and precedent analysis, the autoethnography diary entries become the base for a series of speculative designs situated in Wellington, New Zealand. The design speculations couple playful mobilities and the materialities of designed interventions, making tangible the intersection between designing for mobile situations and potential atmosphere to enrich space and experience that take place along journeys.

This paper investigates a new, popular, award-winning reality television show, Your Home Made Perfect. Drawing on insights from Sara Ahmed's work on the promise of happiness, our thematic analysis of nineteen episodes of Your Home shows how architectural entertainment is uniquely positioned through its use of Virtual Reality (VR) technology to circulate happiness and uplifting emotions and to critique the power imbalances of architect-client relationships. The paper argues how Your Home foregrounds happy emotions to the re-design of homes, where emotions are mobilized through design visualizations that turn both home and architects into "happy objects." Moreover, through "happy objects," this property television show seeks to deflect anxieties of housing precarity and growing wealth disparity. Finally, the paper reveals how architectural TV entertainment reinforces regressive ideas of identity and home ownership.

This paper seeks to contribute to current discourse at the intersection of mobility and architecture studies, by examining the divide between immobility and mobility through the lens of tiny homes. While home is the archetypal image of stasis, belonging, and rootedness, recent mobility studies have considered the potential of architecture as mobilizing, rather than purely permanent, animated through mobility. Our focus on tiny homes highlights the shifting relations between ‘immobility’ and ‘mobility’ as ‘homely mobility’ to create a sense of homeyness and happiness. We examine this homely mobility through an analysis of the YouTube channel Living Big in Tiny Homes, which challenges static conceptions of the home and allows us to emphasize the multi-scalar and multiple forms of homely mobility, spatially and temporally, through micro and macro movements. This paper has a particular interest in how bodies-with-tiny-homes transform and are entangled in movements and flows, but also how the ideas of tiny homes, or ideals of homes generally, stay, are sticky or get stuck.

Feedback is critical to improve the sustainability of all buildings. Current post occupancy feedback is not useful for architects and designers and barriers to obtaining post-occupancy data have been well documented. In addition, there are delays in feedback of research conclusions appearing in Continuing Professional Development. Therefore, architects need timely feedback on their own building designs and methods they can use to obtain feedback for themselves. Previously, a literature review and survey of architects were conducted to identify gaps in feedback for school buildings compared to an Integral Sustainable Design (ISD) framework. A suite of ISD comprehensive on-line surveys were developed for various school user groups to target the identified gaps. This paper presents data from testing a novel survey of children in a case study and comparison of some questions to instrument measurement. The results show that the spatial questions with reasons yielded valuable insights. Some qualitative questions will require amendment to yield useful information. Univariate analysis shows that some thermal comfort questions would be suitable as a substitute for instrument measurement whereas lighting questions would not. Conversely, the question on vocal comprehension provided clear responses, supported by instrument measurement. Likert-style questions regarding sense of place, connection to outside, feelings of safety, etc. were generally successful. Overall, the new ISD children’s survey provides useful information for architects to address feedback gaps identified and will continue to improve with lessons from this case study.

The home occupies a prominent place in our popular and material imagination. The ideal home is a powerful image because it is understood to be a haven from the ills of the world and a material expression of our true selves. This article considers how home, as a tiny home, is framed through two YouTube channels, Living Big in Tiny Homes and Kirstin Dirksen. Extending Sara Ahmed's work on affect, we present this framing as twofold: first, through a sense of 'with-ness' where YouTube facilitates an intimate storytelling with materiality; and second, a sense of 'against-ness' where both channels facilitate the notion of the materiality of home as separate and bounded. The study draws on detailed analysis of 42 video episodes and accompanying written comments to consider how materialities, affects, and experiences of tiny homes are intersected with the constraints of the ideal of a stand-alone home.

This paper joins the conversation around care and maintenance through an account of affects of care in architecture. Affect and its binding power allows us to trace how care releases bodies, including the architectural body, into performative potentials - affect produced, exchanged and accumulated in care work. We present an empirical study across two universities (architecture studios) that provide insights into the complexities of caring and facilitating care by listening in to the multiple care-taking voices and care-engagements, within the context of COVID-19. We draw out the intimacies or bindings that are generated by and through such care acts in three interrelated ways: affective-material tinkering, stuttering temporalities and promise of care and its loss. In conclusion, we suggest how caring for a building is far from uniform and offer some future direction as to how an affects of care account can be helpful in studying diverse modes of (being in) the world of care in/through the built environment. Este art & iacute;culo se suma a la conversaci & oacute;n en torno al cuidado y el mantenimiento a trav & eacute;s de un relato de los efectos del cuidado en la arquitectura. El afecto y su poder vinculante nos permite rastrear c & oacute;mo el cuidado libera los cuerpos, incluido el cuerpo arquitect & oacute;nico, en potenciales performativos: afecto producido, intercambiado y acumulado en el trabajo de cuidado. Presentamos un estudio emp & iacute;rico en dos universidades (estudios de arquitectura) que proporciona informaci & oacute;n sobre las complejidades de cuidar y facilitar el cuidado escuchando las m & uacute;ltiples voces de cuidado y compromisos de cuidado, dentro del contexto de COVID-19. Ilustramos las intimidades o ataduras que se generan por y a trav & eacute;s de tales actos de cuidado de tres maneras interrelacionadas: retoques afectivo-materiales, temporalidades tartamudas, y promesa de cuidado y su p & eacute;rdida. En conclusi & oacute;n, sugerimos c & oacute;mo el cuidado de un edificio est & aacute; lejos de ser uniforme y ofrecemos alguna direcci & oacute;n futura sobre c & oacute;mo una explicaci & oacute;n de los efectos del cuidado puede ser & uacute;til para estudiar diversos modos de (estar en) el mundo del cuidado en/a trav & eacute;s del entorno construido. Cet article se joint au d & eacute;bat autour de la notion de << care >> et de maintenance & agrave; travers un compte-rendu des affects du << care >> au sein de l'architecture. L'affect et son pouvoir contraignant nous permettent de retracer comment le << care >> lib & egrave;re les corps, y compris le corps architectural, dans des potentiels performatifs : l'affect que le travail du << care >> produit, & eacute;change et accumule. Nous pr & eacute;sentons une recherche empirique men & eacute;e dans les studios d'architecture de deux universit & eacute;s qui offre des perspectives sur les complexit & eacute;s de la provision et de la facilitation du << care >> en & eacute;coutant les voix multiples de ceux qui l'ont dispens & eacute; et se sont engag & eacute;s avec lui au c oe ur du contexte de la pand & eacute;mie de COVID-19. Nous d & eacute;crivons l'intimit & eacute; et les liens qu'engendrent ces actes de << care >> de trois mani & egrave;res intriqu & eacute;es : le bricolage affectif et mat & eacute;riel, les temporalit & eacute;s bredouillantes et la promesse et la perte des soins. Pour conclure, nous sugg & eacute;rons que prendre soin d'un immeuble est loin d'& ecirc;tre uniforme et offre une voie future pour l'utilit & eacute; du t & eacute;moignage de l'affect de << care >> dans les travaux sur la diversit & eacute; des modes (d'existence) dans l'univers du << care >> dans et & agrave; travers l'environnement construit.

The spatial flows of school-age children and educational resources have been driven by such factors as regional differences in population migration and the uneven development of the education quality and living standards of residents in urban and rural areas. This phenomenon further leads to a supply–demand imbalance between the area of school land and the number of school-age children in the geographical location of China. The georeferenced data characterizing supply–demand imbalance presents an obvious spatial autocorrelation. Therefore, a spatial data analysis technique named the Eigenvector Spatial Filtering (ESF) approach was employed to identify the driving factors of the supply–demand imbalance of school land. The eigenvectors generated by the geographical coordinates of all primary schools were selected and added into the ESF model to filter the spatial autocorrelation of the datasets to identify the driving factors of the supply–demand imbalance. To verify the performance of the technique, it was applied to a county in the southwest of Shandong Province, China. The results from this study showed that all the georeferenced indicators representing population migration and education quality were statistically significant, but no indicator of the living standards of residents showed statistical significance. The eigenvector spatial filtering approach can effectively filter out the positive spatial autocorrelation of the datasets. The findings of this research suggest that a sustainable school-land-allocation scheme should consider population migration and the possible preference for high-quality education.

Resources in primary schools can be classified into three types: campus, teaching, and community resources. Urban–rural differences in the resources of Chinese county schools, which are triggered by population migration and residents’ preference for high-quality schools, are a common phenomenon emerging in the context of rapid urbanization. Despite the negative effects of these resource differences on social sustainability and the increasing need to comprehensively analyze urban–rural differences in school resources, to date there has not been an effective analytical framework for resolving these issues. To address this research gap, this study develops a method using the entropy-based Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), spatial analysis, and statistical analysis for assessing resource equity in primary schools by means of the relative proximities of resources. The resource differences between urban and rural primary schools are quantitatively investigated through taking Yuncheng County as a case study. The urban–rural differences in the three types of resources are discovered and presented according to geographical location. The research findings make contributions to understanding the unbalanced distribution of school resources, promoting equity in education, and improving the social sustainability of counties. Additionally, the analytical framework has the potential to be extended to analyzing urban–rural resource differences in secondary or high schools.

In 1968, the Housing Commission, Victoria, built a series of high-rise towers in response to an identified metropolitan planning issue: urban sprawl and the outward growth of metropolitan Melbourne. This “solution” precipitated a crisis in urban identity. The construction of the first of a series of these modern high-rise towers at Debney Park Estate, Carlton and Park Towers, South Melbourne displaced significant immigrant communities. This became the impetus for the formation of Residential Associations who perceived this project a major threat to existing cultural values pertaining to social and built heritage. This paper examines the extremely polarising events and the positions of both the Housing Commission and the Residential Associations over the course of fifteen years from 1968. The research is grounded in an historical review of government papers and statements surrounding the social housing towers, as well as scholarly articles, including information gathered by Renate Howe and the Urban Activists Project (UAP, 2003-2004). The historical review contextualises the dramatically vocal and well-publicised positions of the Residential Associations and the Housing Commission by reference to the wider social circumstances and the views of displaced community groups. Looking beyond the drama of the heated debate sparked by this crisis, the paper exposes nuances within the positions, investigates the specifics of the lesser known opinions of displaced residents and seeks to re-evaluate the influence of the towers on the establishment of an inner urban community identity.

This review contributes to the debate regarding feedback needed by architects and building designers to improve the sustainability of their building designs. It utilizes the Integral Sustainable Design framework to harness a more comprehensive definition of sustainability to examine the breadth of currently possible feedback to building designers. The review acknowledges the multiple stakeholders that partake in different stages of a building project and focusses specifically on feedback from completed buildings for architects and designers. This review has endeavoured to summarize the range of current feedback which may be available to architects and draw conclusions regarding the usefulness of some of the assessment methods. There are some aspects of sustainability that have well developed and agreed feedback measures, such as energy use, embodied energy, and Indoor Air Quality. Other aspects about which there has been some research but no agreement on feedback include feeling safe, ecosystem services, and inclusiveness. This review reveals important feedback aspects not covered by either research, sustainability ratings schemes or post occupancy evaluation methods. Indeed, there are many aspects of the sustainability of school buildings about which very little is known, such as physical externalities and community services and the building's effect on socialisation and sense of place. Direct feedback in these areas will increase the pace of sustainability improvement in school design. However, further research is required to determine aspects about which architects desire feedback, would find most useful and to develop efficient feedback methods.

The aim of this research was to assess the reliability of occupants' verbalised thoughts and experiences of environmental conditions for objective environmental condition assessment. This research was based on the Integral Sustainable Design approach and included concurrent think-aloud method and environmental measurements at participants indicated most intense temperature, air movement, sound, lighting and preferred place to study (PPS) locations. The results showed that parameters of the most intense environmental places were significantly higher or lower than PPS. Participants' experiences of the most intense environmental places as intensely high and low, compared to PPS, was generally mirrored by differences in measured environmental parameters between the two sets of places. Findings show that, in this case, human sensors of environmental conditions are reliable. The think-aloud method revealed that participants considered multiple environmental parameters of PPS concurrently and made trade-offs that prioritised the studying task. Future studies might consider integrating first-person reporting with building operation and maintenance functions to improve efficiency without compromising occupants' preferences, satisfaction and comfort.

The relation between time and architecture is well established and thoroughly explored in architectural discourse. Despite this, examination of social time has been lacking. This paper draws on a survey of 114 architects, academics and students who responded to general questions about practice and occupational wellbeing. A finding of this study was the diverse attachments that different groups in the architectural community have to the temporal norms and infrastructures of work and of studio. Based on this study, the paper demonstrates the heterogeneity that exists in architecture and how its temporal norms are negotiated. It concludes that exposing the heterogeneity of temporal experience across a discipline reminds us that the norms of time are negotiated. Moreover, the temporal experience of the everyday transcends the notion that architects passively ascribe to long-hours work culture.

Once a prosperous manufacturing town, Geelong in Victoria, Australia is undergoing a process of deindustrialisation and, in turn, redefining its identity to better retain viability in a globalised world. For instance, the town bid to host a Guggenheim museum on its Eastern Beach shore at the turn of the millennium, and has recently become a UNESCO City of Design (2017). Like so many declining regional industrial towns, Geelong has been undercut by the new economic forces, and has sought a new identity in cultural economies. The ‘Vacant Geelong’ project, which began at Deakin University in 2015 and is ongoing, evolved as a response to vacant industrial architecture in Geelong. Major industries including Ford (vehicles), Alcoa (aluminium), timber sawmills, wool mills, Pilkington Glass, cement works, and the oil refinery once defined the town and its history as an industrial architectural landscape. 1 Major industries transformed the architectural and cultural terrain. Despite these cycles of transformation and erasure, and counter to a progressive and chronological approach to change, the ‘Vacant Geelong’ project explored this vacancy of industrial operation, yet presence of industrial architecture. Through inscriptions – artworks, design projects, creative research, installations, texts – it addressed those material realities that did not leave, the industrial structures – silos, ducts, chimneys, warehouses – that give Geelong its continuing industrial architectural character.

Purpose Framed as a pilot study, the purpose of this paper is to study the perceived appropriateness of an existing collaborative procurement procedure (CPP) framework from the housebuilder’s perspective, seeking to improve its utility and stimulate further exploration. Design/methodology/approach Informed by an existing CPP framework and conducted by a UK-based development professional, four in-depth semi-structured interviews were undertaken with senior housebuilding practitioners from London and surrounding counties. A qualitative analysis was then conducted for this sociological study. Findings Perceived appropriateness of the framework was high; however, a number of procedural improvements were identified, along with limitations. Future studies are recommended including the influence upon project performance of groundworker integration at the design stage. Research limitations/implications Limited to four interviews from one regional area, the study provides an initial insight into the appropriateness of an existing CPP framework. Insights into why CP uptake is marginal within housebuilding were also gained. The research purpose was achieved but by offering a self-reflection upon practice (vis-à-vis wider generalisations), the findings provide a springboard for further studies. Practical implications The research identifies with current practice, industry perceptions and paths towards improving the utility of the CPP framework. Social implications This study offers insights into the perceptions of private housebuilding practitioners of their own practices and the factors they find challenging within the social constructs of their industry. Originality/value This research constitutes one of the first studies in the UK to examine the CPP framework from the perspective of the private housebuilder and is undertaken with the express purpose of furthering that framework’s utility.

This paper engages with recent discourses on affect and design research, arguing that such dialogue offers a particularly useful set of ideas to extend our understanding of design research as a creative and active force for rethinking ideas about design across disciplines. Calling upon the theory of affect as explored by Sara Ahmed, the authors analyse two object-making case studies—one from an American graphic design practice, and another from a French architectural practice. Recognizing the uncertain nature of creative practices, the paper offers an understanding of ‘sticky’ and happy affects embodied in the making of, and use of everyday objects, such as mailboxes and recycled pallets, which keep bodies in the present because of a non-cathartic, less forceful affectual condition. Indeed ‘sticky’ happy affects propose alternative ways of comprehending the multiple forces involved in creative practices invested in design research. Such exploration illuminates not only the work of the designer, but also the engagement as users, where the work is never complete.

This paper aims to better understand the human inhabitation of buildings through an investigation of the influences of architectural order, indoor environmental as well as personal and cultural variables on student’s selection of a preferred place to study. The approach for this interdisciplinary inquiry is based on Integral Sustainable Design in combination with a simplified version of Integral Methodological Pluralism using methodologies from the disciplines of architectural design, architectural science and psychology. The results indicate that participant’s preferences emerged out of either personal or collective cultural narratives. The integral approach was useful to identify collective preference patterns as well as deviations from these and to understand why they occur. Important influences on participant’s selection of their preferred place to study were spatial characteristics, in particular a balance of prospect and refuge as well as individual past experiences, and the nature of the given task in this case study.

The aim of this article is to consider how the notion of celebrity intersects with the home. In the first section we introduce the two case studies Grand Designs and MTV Cribs in the context of celebrification. In the theoretical framework, we set up our approach by bringing together Judith Butler in conversation with Sarah Ahmed to explore how the intersection between celebrity and space is both regulated and charged with affect. We then develop three themed sections to elaborate on our findings. The first section discusses how taste is performed through celebrities' presentation of their homes. The second section looks to how narrow meanings of home in both series regulate notions of home as being thick' or thin'. The third themed section looks more closely at how the notion of celebrity operates in relation to the kitchen. Finally, the conclusion elaborates on how the gap between celebrities and their fans narrows through an authentic self-production within their home, at the same time by maintaining their difference, literally, through the walls of the home - that ensure a sense of difference and separation.

Architectural images operate through convention to depict, describe or identify a building as a means to communicate the content of a building. Competition images eschew this relationship slightly because they are staged images – images that act as a promise of a possible built future. Although there is a growing body of work looking at the interactions and transactions between different mediums, the architectural discipline is still focused on a critical reading of images. Our contribution is to give serious attention to the process of image production for architectural competitions, in particular the shift from a rationally driven logic of these images towards an amplification of affect. In this article we examine the affective logic of winning competition images by the architects Morphosis as well as Reiser and Umemoto’s RUR Architecture P.C. to explore how these images are staged through composition, colour and cinematic expression. Based on these examples we argue critically that these images demonstrate a shift in image making in architecture which speaks of its intersection with media culture. Importantly, the images are also telling of a shifting expectation that architecture is not just a rational object or carrier of symbolic meaning but also a space that amplifies and stages experience.