Cole, R J; Brown, Z and McKay, S (2010) Building human agency: A timely manifesto. Building Research & Information, 38(3), pp. 339-350. ISSN 0961-3218
Abstract
The 2009 Passive and Low Energy Architecture Conference (PLEA), held in Quebec City, Canada, was themed 'Architecture, Energy and the Occupant's Perspective', with the ambition of positioning building inhabitants as key 'active' determinants of energy performance in 'passive' design through adaptive opportunities. Conference delegates committed to a Manifesto that embodied both the key longstanding priorities of PLEA and explicitly conveyed the priorities of the conference hosts. The Manifesto is examined in terms of how it captures and represents a shift in thinking that has occurred over the past few years, away from technological and technocratic solutions to comfort provisioning and towards reframing building energy consumption as a social and ethical challenge in which comfort plays a key role.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | adaptive behaviour; agency; comfort; comfort provisioning; indoor environmental quality; inhabitants; manifesto; passive and low energy architecture conference |
| Index terms: | comfort, indoor environmental quality, adaptive behaviour, building energy consumption, low energy, conference, Canada, agency, energy performance, determinant |
| Subjects: | energy systems, environmental health, human factors, risk assessment, Geography, research dissemination and communication, sociology, occupational health and safety management, sustainability and energy |
| Topics: | Sustainability, Engineering Principles, Risk Management, Research Practice, Geographical Context, Health and Safety |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCT |
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