Architecture based on
Interaction
Indigeneity
Intimacy
Connecting People & Places Through Design
Summit Foundation Report
Our just released co authored report for the Summit Foundation: "Social Connection and Resilience - Design for Humans over Hazards" explores the importance of sociality as a support for resilience in communities facing disasters and challenges. The report includes a focus on FLUID Sociality.
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INTERACTION
“communication or direct involvement with someone”
FLUID Architecture believes that human (in person!) connection is central to joy, creativity and resilience. We use evidence and rigor to understand how design can support human connection. To help do this, we created the FLUID Sociality software tool. This gaming-based simulation tool helps understand how building organization can support sociality.
We want to help people to have more friends.
INDIGENEITY
“originating or occurring naturally in a particular place”
Bruce Haden has worked with Indigenous communities from the Yukon to Mexico. FLUID Architecture has First Nation’s work as a core focus. But the word “indigeneity” speaks to a broader mission, using architecture to anchor our human understanding of a unique part of the world, whether in the heart of the city or in a desert.
We want to help people to find meaning in place.
INTIMACY
“associated in close personal relations”
Architects' work is often big. But the joy of making something for and with an individual, a family or a small business allows a focus on craft and contact with those we serve. Whether a house, a café, or a collaboration with an artist, these intimate explorations remind us that architecture is only ever directly experienced at the scale of the body.
We want to create special design moments with people we like.
FLUID Sociality
FLUID Sociality is a software tool that uses gaming technology and artificial intelligence as tools for agent based modeling. Put simply, we allow architects to populate their building models with digital residents, and we model how, when and where those digital agents interact.
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