Discovery Workshops: Bringing together project teams to ideate, articulate outcomes, and create strategies for better performing spaces with specific human impact.
Science-Informed Insights for Architecture and Urban Design
We collaborate with design teams by enriching the ideation and creative process with scientific insights.
Strategic Briefs
Developing a science-informed approach to a project: Identifying human impact goals, assessment of types of users and their needs, Experience Mapping, and approach to data with Human Metrics
Translating research into insights and guidelines for specific environments. Using a number of unique tools such as Cognitive Journeys and Spatial Qualities Guidelines
We collaborate to deliver design that is science-informed and set up to evolve through dialogue with its users.
Concept Design
Delivering a science-informed basis for guiding later design stages. Working in collaboration with clients and their architects to set up the foundations of Conscious Design.
Our concept designs include research carried out during the Strategic Brief phase of a project.
Based on the intended human impact of an environment, we identify a number of relevant schemas (situations) and apply our science-informed insights to guide design development.
As a crucial step towards Conscious Design, our outputs include the building blocks of a living person-space dialogue. We work with clients to create a feasible data gathering strategy for user feedback, as well as guidelines for the spatial qualities to evolve in response to that feedback.
Case Study: Portland House, London
A project focusing on shared spaces in a large tower renovation in London. Hume was commissioned by developers Landsec to guide the initial and advanced stages of design undertaken by Gensler Architects. Hume's concept and guidelines became the basis for a collaborative design process that ensured scientific insights were applied effectively. Impact: Productivity, Innovation, Sense of Belonging, Social Connection
Client: Landsec
Full Design
We lead the design process and collaborate with local architects/makers to deliver science-informed spaces set up to evolve through dialogue with their users.
• A full design package and coordination with local consultants for delivery. • A data strategy developed with the client, ensuring feedback on performance and visitor/user experience. • A spatial strategy that indicates how the space can evolve over time in response to performance data.
Case Study: Urban Thinkscape, Philadelphia
Urban Thinkscape transforms public spaces in neighbourhoods into opportunities for playful learning by infusing them with durable, replicable, and attractive activities that challenge the mind while encouraging caregiver-child interactions.
The project included impact assessment through studies which have been published in peer-reviewed literature, see for example:
Creativity will be the source of our next industrial revolution, not machines
Science-led surrounds will enhance tomorrow’s productivity
It takes a village, but the village must be rebuilt
Keynote: What Counts? The Hidden Value of Design
Seminar: We're nowhere near human-centred design... yet
Event: Humanising the workplace
Conscious Design Workshops: Urban Design for Mental Health / Child Friendly Cities / Healthy Aging / Resilient Communities
Discovery Workshop: Articulating a project's goals and strategy to achieve specific human impact
Case Study: Senspace is a start-up creating the next generation of spaces designed for relaxation, restoration, and wellbeing. Hume put together a Strategic Brief presenting the feasibility of the vision through a science-informed lens, creating the basis for a design language and marketing approach.
Case Study: The Edge are property developers known for excelling in creating smart buildings. Hume worked with The Edge and local architects on a Berlin Co-working space, guiding design development with science-informed insights.
