Stationary in the Office: Emerging themes for active buildings
This research aims to highlight the gap between management, design and health-promotion strategies in the workplace, and seeks to illustrate how the disciplines of architecture and health promotion can work together to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase opportunities for incidental physical act...
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| author | McGann, Sarah Creagh, Robyn Tye, Marian Jancey, Jonine Blackford, Krysten |
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| description | This research aims to highlight the gap between management, design and health-promotion strategies in the workplace, and seeks to illustrate how the disciplines of architecture and health promotion can work together to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase opportunities for incidental physical activity within the working day. In particular, this paper argues that qualitative research with a focus on socio-cultural factors is necessary to fully understand how the spatial practices of a workplace might positively or negatively influence the sedentary behaviour of workers. This paper summarizes observational and anecdotal findings of a pilot study. The workplace was analysed using architectural movement diagramming, observational and photographic studies along with textural analysis of the anecdotal comments offered to the field officers during the process of data collection. This study shows that overlaying physical workplace design are multiple layers of spatial, managerial and cultural influences that affect workers and their reasons for movement. The lived-experience information gained from the observational studies adds to a richer understanding of the workplace as a social organization and how this might inform active workplace design. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-224952017-09-13T13:53:47Z Stationary in the Office: Emerging themes for active buildings McGann, Sarah Creagh, Robyn Tye, Marian Jancey, Jonine Blackford, Krysten socio-cultural active workplace health sedentary design This research aims to highlight the gap between management, design and health-promotion strategies in the workplace, and seeks to illustrate how the disciplines of architecture and health promotion can work together to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase opportunities for incidental physical activity within the working day. In particular, this paper argues that qualitative research with a focus on socio-cultural factors is necessary to fully understand how the spatial practices of a workplace might positively or negatively influence the sedentary behaviour of workers. This paper summarizes observational and anecdotal findings of a pilot study. The workplace was analysed using architectural movement diagramming, observational and photographic studies along with textural analysis of the anecdotal comments offered to the field officers during the process of data collection. This study shows that overlaying physical workplace design are multiple layers of spatial, managerial and cultural influences that affect workers and their reasons for movement. The lived-experience information gained from the observational studies adds to a richer understanding of the workplace as a social organization and how this might inform active workplace design. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22495 10.1080/00038628.2014.958127 Routledge restricted |
| spellingShingle | socio-cultural active workplace health sedentary design McGann, Sarah Creagh, Robyn Tye, Marian Jancey, Jonine Blackford, Krysten Stationary in the Office: Emerging themes for active buildings |
| title | Stationary in the Office: Emerging themes for active buildings |
| title_full | Stationary in the Office: Emerging themes for active buildings |
| title_fullStr | Stationary in the Office: Emerging themes for active buildings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stationary in the Office: Emerging themes for active buildings |
| title_short | Stationary in the Office: Emerging themes for active buildings |
| title_sort | stationary in the office: emerging themes for active buildings |
| topic | socio-cultural active workplace health sedentary design |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22495 |