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This book offers an efficient set of step-by-step tips and overarching lessons about how to gather useful, meaningful, and socially-informed data about clients’ and other stakeholders' experiences in architecture and interior design professions. In this guide, author Michelle Janning helps the design professional conduct ongoing evaluation of design projects, create useful pre- and post-design evaluations, frame effective questions for improved future design, involve various stakeholders in the research process, and focus on responsible and evidence-based human-centered design to improve the relationship between design and people’s experiences. Examining a variety of both large- and small-scale project examples from different institutional realms, including healthcare sites, schools, residences, eating establishments, museums, and theaters, this book highlights not only the overlap in these types of projects but also the differences between project sizes that may impact the methods used in any given project. It also offers tools for how to communicate design success to audiences that include potential clients, occupants, and other designers. A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers is a go-to reference for design professionals interested in using accessible social scientific methods to gather essential and practical information from people who occupy the spaces they design and to do so in an ethical, inclusive, and socially-informed way in order to enhance social sustainability in the built environment.

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'I am always answering the question of why as I practice interior design. Solutions may appear as beautiful draperies or furniture, but they are physical manifestations to specific analysis that includes client needs, wants and constraints. But I haven't always thought about inherent prejudices and assumptions that I may bring to a project. Michelle gives academic tools to designers and architects to help them reach beyond their personal framework and create a more inclusive analysis of what constitutes good design.' - Robin Daly, Interior Designer, Robin Daly Color & Design 'As a leader in social science research on space and interactions, Janning is the ideal guide to help designers better understand the value of sociology in the work they do. Janning is intellectually, disciplinarily, and methodologically promiscuous in ways that make this book an incredible and one-of-a-kind resource. With accessible and engaging prose, I imagine this how-to will make amateur sociologists out of a collection of designers to the benefit of all the rest of us who engage and interact with their decisions and designs.' - Tristan Bridges, Vice Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

'I am always answering the question of why as I practice interior design. Solutions may appear as beautiful draperies or furniture, but they are physical manifestations to specific analysis that includes client needs, wants and constraints. But I haven't always thought about inherent prejudices and assumptions that I may bring to a project. Michelle gives academic tools to designers and architects to help them reach beyond their personal framework and create a more inclusive analysis of what constitutes good design.' - Robin Daly, Interior Designer, Robin Daly Color & Design

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Michelle Janning is the Raymond and Elsie DeBurgh Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Whitman College.

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