The idea of taking care gets engrained in our daily routines. We consider care now preventive and a possibility to clean and declutter rather than be a solution for momentary fatigue.
Spiritual practices such as mindfulness and self-care become mainstream as new means for connecting with ourselves and our collective consciousness.
Care and wellness are seen from a holistic perspective, including physical, social, mental, and emotional characteristics; therefore consumer wellness includes the individual, their close and next communities, as well as the impact on the planet (people-community-planet).
Joan C. Tronto
Author of Caring Democracy
The shift of what we consider to be wellness now is translated in our homes into feel-good aesthetics, pleasant to the eye, inviting us to touch and feel embraced.
How does it make me feel trumps functionality.
Contemplation design leverages the power to pause.
Introspection in uncluttered spaces becomes a recognized pathway to explore needs of self and identity.
As we shift into a more value-focused society in 2021, detecting human emotions and responding in an honest way to it, has become a major goal.
The question is, what happens when empathy becomes diluted as its worth ascends?
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at least partly due to the effects of the pandemic, social unrest, and climate change, we search for protective mechanisms and environments in our dwellings and wherever we go and stay.
The new home requires a different take on flexibility, technology, and spatial planning, where people-planet design (a shift from human-centered design) plays a crucial role. Our life can only be better when we respect the planet’s life.
Public spaces need to offer design-led comfort and aesthetics to feel at home and take that secure feeling with us.
The four attributes that will guide us wherever we go and stay are Comfort, Privacy, Security, and Belonging.
Our dwelling is turning into a hybrid entity uniting private life and work (= HOFFICE) and has become a digital operation center many times.
The idea of coming home to disconnect after work is shifting. Resimercial Design identifies for uniting design that is suitable for residential and commercial areas according to technical aspects and resistant materiality.
The preference of an open floor plan living, popular in recent years, closes again in need of privacy. Flexible room dividers and doors systems close spaces into individual shelters, no matter how small they are. Public design needs to step up, as well, and offer individual solutions on the go.
Our home is our safe harbor, and we do not want to compromise on that feeling when stepping outdoors.
Public spaces such as hospitals, airports, education facilities, or convention centers will undergo a long-due makeover offering a homely and less anonymous layout.
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Residential neighborhoods, communities, and urban projects in development consider caring and self-sufficient systems a priority.
Self-sufficiency does not exclude being connected to a network; but connected independence offers greater protection.
A city, neighborhood, or micro-community bases its strength on the ability to generate its own resources.
ABC (Autonomous Building for Citizens) suggests another way of thinking and living the habitat, very well integrated into its natural environment.
Gaëtan Desruelles
VP R&D Bouygues Construction
The future of self-sufficient city models lies in creating a web of self-sustaining neighborhoods that are still connected locally and globally.
The city of the future is a metropolis of neighborhoods.
Growing food at home or Home Farming is nothing new; not even for those who have limited space. However, the pandemic has accelerated green movements; we have gone back to locally grown vegetables and fruit as a way of supporting nearby agriculture or started our own self-sufficient adventure on a balcony or inside the kitchen, including smart IoT-based devices to be as autonomous as possible.
Flexibility and adaptability in design keep being essential. Modular structural systems allow to prefabricate, assemble and adapt to ever-changing situations.
Structures need to grow with the tasks they take on becoming autonomous and less rigid. Nothing lasts forever in a fast moving society.
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