Celebrating one year of Humanise ❤️
Listen to Thomas Heatherwick’s reflections on the one year milestone of the campaign, find out what’s next and what YOU can do too! ✨
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It's been an amazing year. We've never done anything like this and it feels like the humanized campaign has sort of just touched on something which is a no brainer. Everyone who I speak to who's a normal person just responds with a yeah, of course. And often what I'm really enjoying is people saying after they've read the book, they said they're now looking at buildings in a different way. And we've had some really amazing breakthrough moments. Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, they are starting a masters degree. I never thought this would happen. There's even a university in South America who are starting an entirely new. Architecture and design school based around humanizing. Meanwhile, the books published in three different continents and there's a number of new countries all now translating the book. So people are seeing that it's a practical, down to earth, no brainer mindset about making places that will have a chance of meaning more to people. So it's. Starting to be a real snowballed turning of of many people and beyond me, which is my hope and goal one year on. The next things for the campaign are just growing and building more coalitions of different cities, different planning authorities and connecting even more with the public. Humanised campaign is about 10 million conversations and each one of those, just step by step by step, just starts to shift our language, our vision of what something could be. The number one action that. Anyone listening to this can really make the most important is just look. Start by looking at buildings, thinking how they make you feel and talking to each other.
I absolutely dig this campaign.
For too long many have not understood buildings, architecture or architects / designers!
I am a workplace designer, an interior designer you could say by expertise, I therefore can comfortably say we (designers) over complicate this industry while people / users… yes the public, just get on and use it how they want to without necessarily using the instruction manual.
We therefore need design to Humanise / mean something to create everyday more relatable environments ie Accessible, Intuitive, Understood, Comfortable, Accommodating, Variety,…. Ok I’m going on but you get me!
Make this industry and its solutions more basic because users don’t need us to complicate matters when all they want are spaces that work, which they understand, because they ‘Relate’.
Happy 1 year to Humanise. It’s been amazing to see how you’ve brought people together, especially at your second Humanise Symposium event last week. It was such a creative way to spark new conversations about our surroundings. We're looking forward to seeing what’s next. 👏
Creative Director at Oktra
1moI absolutely dig this campaign. For too long many have not understood buildings, architecture or architects / designers! I am a workplace designer, an interior designer you could say by expertise, I therefore can comfortably say we (designers) over complicate this industry while people / users… yes the public, just get on and use it how they want to without necessarily using the instruction manual. We therefore need design to Humanise / mean something to create everyday more relatable environments ie Accessible, Intuitive, Understood, Comfortable, Accommodating, Variety,…. Ok I’m going on but you get me! Make this industry and its solutions more basic because users don’t need us to complicate matters when all they want are spaces that work, which they understand, because they ‘Relate’.