New Standards - Comfort

This conversation from Jos Boys, Jordan Whitewood Neal and Marsha Ramroop reflects on different notions of comfort in the spaces we design and use, how comfort has been standardised, and how we should interrogate this classification to move beyond the limitations of frameworks.

The event was part of New Standards, a series of talks at the AA School of Architecture that identified and confronted some of the barriers to architecture, its education and practice, and consider how these can be overcome to embrace wider forms of creativity. Each event in the series addressed the idea of comfort to challenge the idea of ‘standards’ as a bare minimum or one-size-fits-all approach and questioned how we might better provide comfort in all its nuanced forms.

Watch or listen to the event here.

Length: 1hour 34mins 43secs

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