Latest news
- Lab4Living goes to Melbourne
- Lab4Living celebrate their ten year anniversary
- Thinking about design and mental well-being in Maltese Healthcare
- Lab4Living embark on new project in end of life care
- Living well with dementia in Scotland
- Lab4Living influencing the health curriculum in Zurich
- Kelham Island
- Exciting new collaboration between Lab4Living and China Academy of Arts
- Design and the Ageing Brain Symposium: Auckland, New Zealand
- Action Alliance: Designing a dementia friendly city
Our facilities
Lab4Living not only refers to the collaborative partnerships between our researchers. The Lab4Living is also the physical space where much of our research takes place. This space is a state-of-the-art experimental area where it’s possible to conduct both qualitative and quantitative studies of human behaviour and to understand individuals’ interactions with the built environment.
The advantage of this is that it allows us to create and re-create a range of different scenarios and to observe in detail how people respond to these environments. This can range from full room scales such as living rooms, bathrooms, office spaces, supermarket isles etc down to individual items of packaging and small products. Developing a greater understanding of how people interact with these spaces leads to ‘better’ design of products, packaging and process solutions.
The Lab possesses extensive resources which can broadly be grouped around the following categories: Simulation, Production and Measurement and data collection.