Towards a Sustainable Life: Smart and Green Design in Buildings and Community
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 71291
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sensing architecture; design computing and cognition; human-computer interaction
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Interests: Affective computing; building information modeling; sensing architecture
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability is a principal value in our environment and lives and does not simply involve sustaining the original environment or reducing the consumption of resources. Sustainable development can also relate to the healthy and smart development of buildings and communities towards a sustainable life. This Special Issue is interested in how sustainable life can be achieved in terms of sustainable architecture and positive technology. Green design is often used interchangeably with environmental sustainability and is mainly considered for sustainable development. However, this Special Issue considers user-centered smart design for sustainable life because our living spaces are integrated with technologies to support people’s activities, and such integration can support sustainable development. Positive technology could improve overall quality of life by promoting occupants’ wellbeing and satisfaction. This Special Issue welcomes research contributions on sustainable life in buildings and communities. The aim is to highlight issues on the sustainable development of our environments and lives by emphasizing smart and green design perspectives. We solicit interdisciplinary articles concerning sustainable life and propose to bring together expertise from environmental psychology, architecture, engineering, social sciences, and technologies to share their approaches to sustainable life. The following are some example keywords, but submissions are not limited to these.
Prof. Dr. Mi Jeong Kim
Prof. Dr. Han Jong Jun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Environmental sustainability
- Sustainable development
- Sustainable architecture
- Sustainable life
- Smart and green design
- Positive technology
- Buildings and sustainability
- Community and sustainability
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