INTERIOR DESIGN

Multigenerational living style is back? An awareness for Interior Designers

The “multigenerational living style” refers to households where multiple generations—such as grandparents, parents, and children—live together under one roof. This living arrangement is experiencing a resurgence due to factors like rising housing costs, extended family caregiving needs, and cultural preferences for family closeness. For interior designers, this trend presents an opportunity to create functional, adaptable spaces that accommodate the diverse needs of different age groups, while promoting comfort, privacy, and interconnection. Awareness of this trend helps designers integrate flexible layouts, accessible features, and shared communal areas into homes to enhance the multigenerational living experience.

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Alarm Will Sound: Students Perception of Risk-free space at School

This ethnographic case study examines how a school building designed to promote both student engagement and safety supports school practices that prioritize minimizing risk (Biesta, 2014). Student voices focus on the connotations of a tall fence and alarmed doors that deny the teenagers’ access to exterior circulation and social spaces. The author found educators embracing crime prevention through environmental design strategies to enforce a closed campus policy.

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Associations between the home physical environment and child self-regulation: A conceptual exploration

The environment is an important external source that affects a child’s cognitive, behavioral, mental, and social development. According to Bronfenbrenner^‘s ecological system model, the interaction between a child and his/her environment can influence and shape the development of self-regulation. A child’s home is part of a complex microsystem referred to as the immediate environment, consisting of different factors such as family socioeconomic level, chaotic home environment, and other factors. Interior design is a component in the child’s physical environment and can play a role in improving self-regulation.

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Safety and Exposure in Transparent School Interiors: Patterned user Perceptions of Glass

This paper examines user perceptions of glass in a Midwestern high school in the U.S. that exemplifies a new generation of school buildings using transparent interior features both to support social connections and to allow for the informal supervision of students. It is well known that occupants often try to reestablish spatial boundaries that architects had attempted to dematerialize with the use of glass, yet the discourse of transparency typically focuses on architects’ intentions and excludes user perceptions. 

Examining the Diffusion of Fall-Monitoring Gerontechnology among Older Adults for Aging-in-Place

The purpose of this study was to examine the diffusion of gerontechnology for fall monitoring among older adults based on the Innovation-Decision Process model, proposed by Rogers. The predictors of the first three stages—knowledge, persuasion, and decision—were examined, and variables related to older adults’ aging attitudes, relationship with technology, aging-in-place, and fall concerns were included in the model to be tested. A self-administered survey was conducted with 331 older adults.

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Home Spaces Used as Third Places During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Older Adults Living in the U.S.A and in Brazil

The research examines how fall-monitoring technologies (a type of “gerontechnology”) are being adopted by older adults to help them age in place safely. The research likely explores the factors influencing the diffusion of these technologies, such as user attitudes, accessibility, and the benefits for older adults living independently. It emphasizes the importance of such technologies in preventing falls, which are a significant risk for seniors, and how these innovations support their independence and quality of life.

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Where to Hang Out: Interplay between School Building Characteristics, Authority Structures, and School Micro-Climates

This comparative case study examines non-classroom spaces within two rural, midwestern high schools in the U.S., relying on a critical pedagogy of place perspective (Gruenewald, 2008). Participant descriptions focus on the interplay between school building characteristics and local authority structures.