The Slow Home

The Slow Home is an online lecture series that brings to life principles of good residential design and how to apply them in a variety of real world situations. It provides the basic knowledge and skills necessary for people to become more informed residential consumers and empower them to make smarter choices about where and how they live.

Using the principles of SIMPLE (i.e: useable, practical), LIGHT (small environmental impact, local ammenities, upgradeable) and OPEN (daylight and ventilation, but also the right size for your needs without wasted space), architect and lecturer John Brown, dicusses homes in terms of layout, design and structure to help improve your living space.

From The Times:

The Slow Homes movement has been a long time coming. Its foodie forbear began in Rome in 1986, as a furious reaction against the opening of a McDonald’s by the Spanish Steps. The ethos turned out to have an appeal far beyond gastronomy, and Slowness spread across the globe, expanding into areas of activity from travel to child-rearing, and sex (oh, yes). It was only in the latter half of this decade that Slowness began to filter into areas such as residential architecture (theslowhome.com), urban design (slowlab.net) and eco-design (fuad-luke.com). And now is the perfect time for all of us to go Slow — we’re skint and no longer pimping our homes to ensnare buyers.

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