Using My Home as a Mini Testbed / Living-Lab
Thursday, November 05, 2026
I've always believed in practice-based research and creativity, and talk a lot about "practical creativity" and "more actions than words" (which is ideal for me as someone with #Dyslexia).
So I am using my home as a mini #testbed / #living-lab to demonstrate what I will be talking about in three weeks.
Currently, the 'data' is showing the level of #vocs are high in my bedroom.... so today I am 'seeing' what happens if I move all my plants into my bedroom!!!
If you would like to know about this very informal experiment and a few others I have done, then join me and see how we might collectively heal some of the issues in our built environment - so we can have healthy homes, healthy people and therefore a healthy planet!
Terry John
Tania Callagher
Noora Kokkarinen
Gavin Kelly
Rachel Westerbeek
Leah Armitage
Owolabi-Dada Shakirah
Marcus Angell
Forum for the Built Environment
CIAT North West Region
Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT)
Rebecca De Cicco
University of Central Lancashire
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