Philosophy

Our aim is to develop environments and propose creative strategies for future living in which people of all ages and abilities ‘not merely survive’ but are enabled and empowered to live with dignity, independence and fulfilment. Our approach adopts a holistic, human-centred approach rather than focussing solely on medical or social care provision.

Our work moves into the realms of total quality of life; facilitating the functional whilst also addressing issues of identity, individuality and spirituality and enhancing aspirational qualities such as pleasure and leisure.

There are five main themes to our research in Lab4Living. The overarching focus is putting the ‘human’ at the heart of ‘human centred research’.

Our themes are: ‘Identity, dignity and emotion’, ‘Living spaces’, ‘Sensory tools’, ‘Communication and mapping’ and ‘Designing with people; methodologies’