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Planners, architects, and designers can have a great impact on living environments and well-being. Well-being is a natural outcome of natural living, but it is important to realize that a real and comprehensive understanding of well-being can only be achieved through the continuity of the concept to all environmental scales starting from the biosphere and leading towards interiors. Since interior space is one of the most important determinants of our everyday experiences, its role in well-being as a conscious construct needs to be the most important concern of spatial design. Well-Being Design and Frameworks for Interior Space is a pivotal reference source that proposes a framework including different dimensions of well-being and that discusses the importance of each dimension through the examination of past and present living environments in an attempt to figure out the appropriate ways of thinking, living, and building that can lead to healthier environments and happier people. Factors discussed throughout the book include the history of the concept of living well, the evolution of well-being with age, the requirements that affect well-being, the potentials of certain design approaches for well-being, the existing environments (such as vernacular structures, heritage buildings) with specific advantages for well-being, changes in well-being requirements, interior environments with different functions (such as schools and home environments), and the intersections of interior design with other design disciplines. This book is ideally designed for architects, interior designers, planners, engineers, administrators, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and students.

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Valeria Minucciani is Architect and Associate Professor in Interior Architecture at Polytechnic of Turin, where she is Coordinator of Master in Interior, Exhibit & Retail Design and is member of the Teaching Board of School of Specialization in Architectural and Environmental Heritage. She is Coordinator in Piedmont for National Association of Small Museums (APM). She deals with Interior space, Museography, and Cultural Heritage enhancement and communication, according to different approaches. She studied in particular archaeological and religious museums, the ICTs role in enhancement of Cultural Heritage and the accessibility to culture. On these issues she’s Author of several books, chapters and papers in national and international context. Her interests are currently focusing on disciplinary contamination between Interior spaces and neuroscience. Nilüfer Saglar Onay is an architect and academician in the field of architecture and interior design. She got her B.Sc.(1999) in Architecture, M.Sc. (2001) and PhD(2010) in Architectural Design. She has been a visiting scholar at SUPSI, Switzerland in 2008, at UNIFI, Florence in 2010- 2011, at POLIMI, Milan and POLITO, Turin from 2015 until present. She started her professional academic career in Istanbul Technical University in 2004 as a research assistant and got the title of associate professor in 2015. She has contributed to several architectural projects and restoration projects in Istanbul. She has numerous national and international publications including journal articles, books, book chapters and conference papers. Her main research areas are public interior spaces, spatial evaluation models, residential architecture and adaptive re-use.

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