Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Establishing Design Value
Post-occupancy evaluations have been getting a lot of attention recently – it’s tempting to say that they’re making a comeback, but it’s unclear if they were ever here to start with, except as a gleam in many academics’ eyes. The strongest post-occupancy evaluations involve quantifying something closely linked to the mission of the organization whose environment is being studied – for example, a measure of creativity at a firm whose success is tied to creative thinking – both before and after changes are made to physical spaces. Before-After comparisons are directly of value to the group whose environments are being evaluated; they give general indications of the repercussions of design-related decisions to others – exactly the same outcomes/payoffs can only be anticipated in exactly the same circumstances. People doing POEs are left with the question of what to study, pre- and post-development. A report, “The Value Handbook” prepared by the …
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