Themes

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The Research Programme on the Future of Living and Housing is structured around three closely related themes: lifespans, spaces and society. These themes and their interconnections locate the key subject areas in which the programme is expected to produce significant research results. The concept of housing as applied in the programme ties together questions of housing through to urban and regional planning, political decision-making and its impacts.

However the main focus throughout is on the individual resident. It follows that the programme excludes such research questions that are concerned purely with construction techniques, material properties or, say, indoor air quality. It is expected that the research in the programme is multidisciplinary and people-oriented.

Multidisciplinary research into the future of housing has a broad foundation in society, culture, the environment and technology. The Research Programme will aim to cover all these aspects in as coherent a fashion as possible, focusing specifically on the individual resident.