The old, the new and the ugly: a path towards high-performance environments

This presentation focuses on how end-user experience can be leveraged to improve the design and performance of environments to achieve sustainability and health. Data from research conducted in Australian in close collaboration with industry, is used to provide insights around the need to continually challenge assumptions around high-performance environments.

Findings spotlight some of the challenges (and opportunities) around operational practices, response, and preparedness to extreme weather events, the renewed call to enlist buildings as key to our collective health and the rise of the wellbeing movement.

About Christina

A/Prof Chris Candido directs the SHE (Sustainable and Healthy Environments) Lab at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. She leads a program of applied and interdisciplinary research aimed at leveraging end-user experience to improve design and performance of spaces across typologies and scales.

An expert in Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE), findings from her work have been used to inform changes in design and operational practices around the world. She is a member of the International WELL Building Institute Global Research Advisory Board and WELL Faculty. She received the 2023 Changemaker Award and 2021 WELL Faculty Award from IWBI.