What kinds of spaces foster happiness is what (the) happy spaces project is hoping to understand more deeply. Here are some non-user space that have been given the “Great Places Award” by the Environmental Design and Research Association (EDRA) for demonstartion ”that an understanding of human interaction with place has generated the design.”
The EDRA award submissions that have shown “how research and/or citizen participation is linked to or part of practice”
Here are a few awardees:
Great Places Award, 2011
Steel Yard. Providence RI
Great Places Award, 2009
The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet. Oslo, Norway
Great Places Award, 2008
Olympic Sculpture Park. Seattle, WA
Great Places Award, 2007
The Ferry Building. San Francisco, CA
