North American design firm Dialog and The Conference Board of Canada have unveiled the concept behind an emerging methodological approach to measure community wellbeing and offer a standardized industry roadmap for using planning and design to give people, communities, and environments what is required to thrive and reach their potential. The proposed framework will give design professionals an evidence-based mechanism to analyze the implications of urban planning, architectural, interior, engineering, landscape, and sustainable design decision-making based on a measurable set of indicators.
The methodology, whose emerging framework was unveiled at the 2017 World Design Summit in Montreal, seeks to reshape the function of design in city building, allowing urban planners, architects, engineers, and designers to play a critical role in project strategy at the outset, measure the impact of completed projects, guide decision-making throughout a project?s life cycle, and demonstrate a measurable value for community wellbeing. A visual representation of the Wellbeing Indicator. Image via Dialog
?We have established a series of recognizable domains, identified their corresponding connection to wellbeing, and suggested indicators that provide measurable quantitative and qualitative data on design decision-making,? says Julia Markovich, senior researcher at The Conference Board of Canada. ?Now, we are testing this framework on existing projects to provide a snapshot of how design ca...