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Welcome to Human Perception, Well-being and Behaviour in Indoor Built Environments

Description: Building professionals’ interest has been to design buildings which are positively perceived by their occupants and enable them exerting certain tasks or inhabiting these spaces. How this should be done has been subject of changing trends. Technological developments have been one of the drivers in this process. In recent years research has gained more and more insight in how architecture, i.e. the indoor built environment, the interplay of usage, occupancy, indoor space design and technologies in􏰆uences how humans feel, perform and behave in these environments. An increasing number of post-occupancy studies has been showing that the individual perception of spaces is in some cases quite different from the planners’ intention. Starting with e.g. work on the sick building syndrome in the 1980ies, resent studies on e.g. the degree of personal control in indoor environments have provided more knowledge on the impact context and non-quanti􏰄able factors have on human well- being and perception. Experiments on how human perceive indoor spaces using methods from neuroscience offer completely new approaches to investigate which impact indoor built environment design can have on humans. Furthermore, monitoring of demonstration buildings, e.g. zero emission or plus energy buildings, has provided the insight that the energy performance of buildings is highly connected to how humans behave in these buildings. There is more and more 􏰄ndings supporting that this behaviour is driven by the perception of indoor built environment settings. Aiming at more sustainable ways of living our knowledge on how indoor built environment practice drives human behaviour is paramount. Aalborg University’s Architecture and Urban Design section has been focussing on integrated design approaches in order to research and design for human-centred indoor built environments.

Organizer:Professor Runa T. Hellwig

Lecturers: Prof Runa T. Hellwig, Asc. Prof Lars Brorson Fich Asc. Prof Camilla Brunsgaard, (all CREATE),

Guest lecturer(s): Dr Astrid Roetzel, Senior Lecturer, Deakin University, Australia, Dr. Hannah Pallubinsky, Maastricht University, Netherlands

ECTS: 3/5

Time: November 2020 (date will come as soon as possible)

Place: This course will be held ONLINE

Number of seats: 15

Deadline: October 27 2020

Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.