How do we design cities to support human health and wellbeing? What would a healthy house look like? Or a school, an office block, or even a whole neighbourhood? We’re trying to find answers to these questions in our research.
Watch the animation above to find out more about how our research is making an impact in the real world: from helping to improve indoor air quality in schools to solving overheating in new and existing homes.
Credits
Art direction & illustration: Boyle & Perks
Copywriting: George Bull, Eggcorn
Animation: Plastic Horse
Voiceover: Poppy Chancellor
The case studies featured in this animation are from the UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering.
Related programmes at The Bartlett
UCL's Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings MSc is designed to meet the growing demand for specialists to drive the health and wellbeing agenda in the design, assessment, retrofit and operation of sustainable buildings. This master's offers more than just knowledge; it equips you with the skills, tools and networks needed to advance your career across a variety of professions, in enhancing sustainability, health, and wellbeing within the built environment.
To combat climate change and achieve net-zero carbon targets there is an urgent need for a sustainable, efficient, and healthier built environment. UCL's Environmental Design and Engineering MSc equips you for a successful career in sustainable building design and operation. It teaches you to use innovative approaches and tools to design and engineer buildings that are both sustainable and efficient that can be used in jobs in sustainable architecture, engineering and other built environment professions.
The Healthcare Facilities MSc is designed for healthcare and built environment professionals to learn about the challenges facing healthcare real estate provision and operation in the modern age.
The Design and Management for Sustainable Education MSc course aims to develop and extend students’ knowledge of the complex interrelationships between learning and the physical and digital environments in which it takes place.
Find out more about our research impact below...

Looking backwards to look forwards
Learn more about how The Bartlett is working with governments and institutions to generate new narratives of Modernist architecture and encounters outside of the West.

Championing equitable transport, infrastructure and place quality
Learn more about how The Bartlett is working with public transport operators, regional and local governments, to show how planning can improve our urban areas and our quality of life.

Influencing policy on the climate crisis
Learn more about how researchers at The Bartlett are working to influence policy at all scales to help achieve a low-carbon future.

Impact at The Bartlett
Find out how through partnership, listening, engagement and cooperation, The Bartlett staff and students use ground-breaking teaching and research to change the world.