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The SALIENT checklist: gathering up the ways inwhich built environments affect what we do andhow we feel

Dolan, Paul, Foy, Chloe and Smith, Sophie (2016) The SALIENT checklist: gathering up the ways inwhich built environments affect what we do andhow we feel. Buildings, 6 (9).

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Identification Number: 10.3390/buildings6010009

Abstract

In recent years, behavioural science has emerged as an additional tool to explore the impact of built environments on behaviour and wellbeing. Recognising the potential for further research in this field, we have sought to better understand how built environments affect what we do, as well as how they make us feel. We began this process through a review of the behavioural science literature, and have brought together evidence to develop a checklist for design with wellbeing in mind. In this paper, we present Sound, Air, Light, Image, Ergonomics and Tint as the mnemonic SALIENT, which forms a checklist. We outline an example where elements of the checklist have been applied in a real-world setting to examine subjective wellbeing (SWB). We present this example to illustrate how the SALIENT checklist could potentially be applied more extensively to measure the impact of built environments on wellbeing.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/6/1/9
Additional Information: © 2016 The Authors © CC-BY 4.0
Divisions: Social Policy
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited: 18 May 2016 15:33
Last Modified: 14 Nov 2024 19:06
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/66551

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