Dream Fellowship: Promoting Design for Wellbeing (DfW) in the Built Environment

我对梦想奖学金的愿景是在建筑环境中促进健康设计（DfW）。建筑教育和实践普遍将建筑视为“艺术”，重视原创性高于一切，很少承认普通人的经验。工程师接受了高水平的技术能力培训，但对他们的工作如何影响用户却知之甚少。在19世纪末和20世纪初，建筑环境与健康和福祉之间的联系是无可争议的（见当时《柳叶刀》上关于住房的许多文章），但在上个世纪，卫生服务越来越多地集中在通过NHS对疾病的临床治疗上。然而，21世纪的挑战需要改变。全球变暖和其他环境问题导致了可持续住房设计的增长和“可持续社区”的推广。现在人们认识到，可持续发展必须考虑到健康和福利等社会问题才能有效，除非解决用户的愿望，否则环境解决办法很可能会失败。与此同时，卫生服务提供者开始认识到，建筑环境可能在预防健康不良方面发挥作用。我认为需要一种新的设计方法——a)旨在优化人们的健康和福祉，b)使用证据来证明什么有效，什么无效，c)考虑“整个系统”，整合各种建筑环境专业。我相信我们可以建立一个新的技能基础，超越传统的学科界限，结合建筑师、工程师、城市设计师、规划师、职业治疗师和公共卫生从业者的专业知识。通过该奖学金，我将追求两个总体目标：促进DfW研究的新方向，以便为政策和实践建立可靠、可用的证据基础；促进建筑环境和健康教育与实践的文化转变，朝着这种综合的、知情的DfW方法发展。我将实现以下目标：1 .将不同学科的DfW领域的主要学者聚集在一起，促进他们之间的融合；2 .通过创建“实践社区”，在该领域的学者和实践者之间建立有效的联系，以促进研究和知识转移；3 .确定最佳实践、创新方法和新方向，以提高该领域研究的质量和数量；4 .为DfW议程制定一个利益案例，使利益相关者相信其价值；5 .整合现有发现，供决策者和从业人员使用，作为DfW的连贯证据；建立培训新一代设计师的框架，使他们具备在实践中实施DfW的技能。

My vision for the Dream Fellowship is to promote design for wellbeing (DfW) in the built environment. Architectural education and practice generally views architecture as 'art', values originality above all else and rarely acknowledges ordinary people's experiences. Engineers are trained to high levels of technical competence but have little understanding of how their work impacts users. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the link between built environments and health and wellbeing was undisputed (see the many articles on housing in the Lancet at this time), but over the last century health provision has become increasingly focused on clinical treatment of illness through the NHS. However, the challenges of the 21st century demand change.Global warming and other environmental issues have led to the growth of sustainable housing design and promotion of 'sustainable communities'. It is now acknowledged that sustainable development must take into account social issues such as health and wellbeing in order to be effective, and environmental solutions are likely to fail unless they address users' aspirations. At the same time, health service providers are beginning to see that built environments may play a role in the prevention of ill-health.I see the need for a new approach to design - one that a) aims to optimise people's health and wellbeing, b) uses evidence of what works and what doesn't, and c) considers the 'whole system', integrating the range of built environment specialisms. I believe we can establish a new skill-base which transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries and combines the expertise of the architect, engineer, urban designer, planner, occupational therapist and public health practitioner.Through the Fellowship I will pursue two overall goals:To facilitate new directions in DfW research in order to build a reliable, useable evidence base for policy and practice;To facilitate a cultural shift in both built environment and health education and practice towards this integrated, informed DfW approach.I will achieve the following:1. Bring together key academics working in the DfW field within different disciplines, improving integration between them;2. Establish effective links between academics and practitioners in the field, through creation of a 'community of practice', to facilitate research and knowledge transfer;3. Identify best practice, innovative methods and new directions, to improve both the quality and quantity of research in the field;4. Develop a benefits case for the DfW agenda to convince stakeholders of its value;5. Consolidate existing findings for use by policy makers and practitioners as coherent evidence for DfW;6. Establish the framework for training of a new generation of designers, equipped with the skills to implement DfW in practice.