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The imitation Game Mimesis, a Leading Edge Technique - 24-01-02

AIA CEU Number: 24-01-02 Mimesis: A leading-edge technique for enhancing health, safety, and welfare Number of Credits: 2.0 HSW Keywords: Public Space, Adaptability, Durability, Well Being Since WWII, consciousness regarding the Health, Safety, and Welfare requirements in architecture increased. Codes, regulations, and continuing education efforts increase the HSW capacity of architects and their buildings. “Functional” design often fails to safeguard the public by reducing the potential for harm to the occupants, users, and others affected by a building or site. “High-tech” neuroaesthetic factors reduce equitable access to the forms that elevate the human experience, thereby discouraging social interaction. “Innovative” design and material choices degrade the environment through excessive carbon footprint and accompanying emissions. Architects are being challenged to support the physical, emotional, and social well-being of occupants, users, and others who encounter their buildings and spaces. Despite numerous fixes and patches, much practice today is still insufficient to support individual and societal wellbeing to the point of contributing to Health challenges –Individual and societal stress, disease, and dysfunction by virtue of inadequate design and poor urban fabric Safety challenges – material and structural failure, design failure to meet the requirements of the human body. Welfare challenges – built-in obsolescence, inadvertent obsolescence, socio-economic disruption through short building lifecycles, resistance to recycling, high embedded energy and still-high direct and indirect emissions. In contrast, the traditional methods of design and construction inhere the values of Health, Safety, and Welfare. They provide the aesthetic experience which measurably reduces individual stress and thereby helps make public places which bring out the best in people, directly contributing to individual and societal wellbeing – Health. They manifest the durability that supports all else in the built environment by virtue of sustainable engineering, robust material choices – Safety, and They are well known to inhere the adaptive reuse and long-term sustainability that contribute so greatly to reduced embedded and operational energy requirements which in turn reduce harmful carbon emissions. Their permanence creates places directly contributing to societal and individual wellbeing through reduced stress—and thereby reduced diseases – Welfare. Interestingly, the traditional motto of Firmness, Commodity, and Delight translates directly to Safety, Health, and Welfare. It demands equitable environments of equal neuroaesthetic benefits to all. Thus, to protect the individual and public health, safety, and welfare in the built environment we should seek less iconicity and innovation and instead rely on the strongest human instinct, and the foundation of all human cultures, mimesis. It is shown that the traditional methods of imitation may be the best ways to consistently bring the values of health, safety, and welfare into design and construction . The theme for this session, “Mimesis,” parses out how architects hone and hand down their specific design skills to promote the progress we benefit from when we experience projects successful in delivering their HSW content. Learning objectives: 1. Learn that, while Modernism experiments “innovation” on unsuspecting people without their or permission, traditional practice refines what is learned, improves what works, and delivers what people recognise as serving them best—equitably. 2. Learn how traditional methods of design and construction inhere the values of Health, Safety, and Welfare by providing the aesthetic experience which measurably reduces individual stress and helps make public places which best contribute to individual and societal wellbeing 3. Learn how sustainable engineering and material choices manifest the durability that supports all else in the built environment; how they inhere the adaptive reuse that contribute so greatly to reduced energy requirements and harmful carbon emissions; 4. Learn how the permanence of traditional structures creates places directly contributing to societal and individual wellbeing. 5. Learn that by embracing imitation in design, we learn the tried and tested health, safety, and welfare practices at the core of humane and nurturing cultures. It is the number one tool for learning architecture, by way of a central discourse that goes back to antiquity. This session explains that there are several methodologies for designing buildings that can have a legitimate positive impact on the social, emotional, and physical well-being of the people who visit or use them by making their forms neurologically beautiful and thus their spaces inviting. It shows that the technical aspects of traditional design—championing wellbeing is directly germane to HSW for building occupants.