Services
powerfulowl.design provides a range of services that support empowerment through design and environments that nurture. Our core services are outlined below.
Environmental Well-Being
Appraisal – Residential, Commercial, and Specialist Environments
Environmental Well-Being
Education, Training & Tuition
Environmental Well-Being
Research
Environmental Well-Being
Appraisal – Residential, Commercial, and Specialist Environments
powerfulowl.design provides the following environmental appraisal services for residential environments such as houses, units, or other dwellings:
- Exploring, understanding, and creating home. The place we call home is central to our health and wellbeing – that is, to our ability to reduce stress and thrive. The process whereby a physical environment such as a house becomes a home happens as part of our taken-for-granted everyday activities. powerfulowl.design can help reveal personal understandings of home and the role played by the home environment’s spatial and material qualities thereby fostering greater agency in making your home healthier and more meaningful. Even small changes can have profound effects.
- Wellbeing appraisal of home environments inside and/or outside for small to major renovations. Renovations provide opportunities to consider the role played by a range of environmental aspects and to adopt an integrated, holistic approach to creating a healthier and more meaningful environment.
- Wellbeing appraisal of proposed house design. powerfulowl.design can work as a consultant with you and your designer/builder to ensure design for health and well-being principles are incorporated in the early stages of brief development and design.
- Environmental well-being appraisal to inform real estate marketing. Despite society’s increasing attention to wellbeing there is very little awareness of the relationship between the physical environment and health and well-being. Real estate marketing provides the opportunity to draw attention to specific aspects of a residence that potentially support and enhance well-being for prospective vendors/buyers. In addition to value adding this also helps raise awareness about the relationship between the physical environment and wellbeing.
As well as residential environments, powerfulowl.design provides the following environmental appraisal services for commercial and specialist environments such as retail shops, workplaces, schools, healthcare facilities, etc. The appraisal could be commissioned by business owners, government, or architects/designers and involve:
- Well-being appraisal of the physical environment to identify aspects that potentially impact the health and well-being of customers/clients, employees, and the wider community.
- In the case of new environments, powerfullowl.design can work as a consultant with designers incorporating theory of designing for health and well-being into the design brief and design development and/or following construction undertake a more extensive Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) focussing on health and well-being.
Environmental Well-Being
Education, Training & Tuition
While powerfulowl.design studio provides consultancy services its primary goal is to help develop knowledge and skills in the wider community so more people are empowered to participate in creating environments that nurture and sustain themselves and others. Two things are central to this: knowledge about the relationship between the built environment and health and well-being; and an appreciation of our innate ability to design.
Individual tuition, group workshops, presentations
powerfulowl.design studio provides individual tuition, facilitates group workshops or delivers presentations on designing and designing environments for health and well-being.
Educational resources
powerfulowl.design provides resources to raise awareness and support learning about designing and designing environments for health and well-being. Resources will be regularly developed, compiled and made available through this website. The resources will range from references to books, scholarly research papers, reports, general literature, links to relevant websites, as well as presentations/modules prepared exclusively by powerfulowl.design.
Environmental Well-Being
Research
The services provided by powerfulowl.design are informed by research expertise developed over several decades in the university sector; expertise encompassing:
- Rigorous, ethical inquiry supported by expert knowledge of and skill in a range of qualitative methodologies and advanced information retrieval.
- A participatory/collaborative approach that acknowledges and values individual experience, expertise, and diversity.
- Theory including originally generated theory to ensure that environmental well-being appraisal undertaken by powerfulowl.design is evidence-based and individually and socially relevant.