Unit One Housing and Interior Design

1. HUMAN NEEDS AND HOUSING Unit One Housing and Interior Design

2. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS • How can housing needs reflect the stage of life? • How many times will you move in your lifetime?

3. By the end of this unit, YOU will be able to… • Summarize, observe, and create a plan on how housing fulfills basic human needs. • Investigate and analyze the housing needs of special populations. • Investigate how peoples needs, goals and values influence their housing decisions according to their lifestyle and life cycle.

4. What is housing? • Housing is any structure built for people to live in; comes in many shapes and forms. • Three types of basic housing developed: • Natural • Portable • Permanent

5. Partner Questions • How do you interact with your housing? • How are your feelings affected by your housing? • How do the types of houses and the furnishings inside them influence people’s feelings and behavior?

6. Meeting Needs through Housing • Needs vs. Wants • Needs are the basic requirements that people must have filled in order to live • Wants • Psychological needs: needs related to the mind and feelings that must be met in order to live a satisfying life. • ASSIGNMENT

7. Needs and Personal Priorities—Factors in Housing Decisions DIRECTIONS: • Draw the outline of a house. • Draw or cut out pictures that depict physical and psychological needs and personal priorities. • Glue these inside the house with the appropriate label. • BE NEAT AND CREATIVE • We all have different personal priorities so no two posters should look the same!  • Materials: • Paper • Marker, Pencil • Magazines • Scissors • Glue

8. NEEDS & WANTS • INDIVIDUAL: Two minutes to come up with a list of as many physical needs, psychological needs, and wants associated with housing that you can • CLG: Five minutes to share your lists with your group and expand to make one big list. Think of as many as you can.

9. Maslow’s Theory

10. PHYSICAL NEEDS • Most basic human needs • SHELTER: • Protection from the elements

11. PHYSICAL NEEDS • FOOD AND WATER: • Place to prepare food • Place to eat • Socialize • Family time

12. PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS • Need for security • Need for love and belonging • Need for self-actualization • Need for identity • Need for creativity

13. Maslow’s • Partner Question: • Why does one level of needs have to be at least partially met before the next level of needs can be sought? • Each pair needs to provide one example.

14. Factors Affecting Housing Decisions • Personal Priorities: are strong beliefs or ideas about what is important. HOW DO NEEDS AND PERSONAL PRIORITIES RELATE???

15. Your Housing Needs and Personal Priorities Assignment • Select (or draw) two pictures of rooms that reflect your personal priorities. Mount your pictures on construction paper. • Describe three needs addressed by the rooms in the pictures. • Identify a personal priority associated with each of the three needs. • For each picture, describe what you would change or add to make the room fit your personality, priorities, needs, and wants.

16. Factors Affecting Housing Decisions • SPACE—influenced by personal wants, hobbies, activities, and how the space is used. • PRIVACY– live alone, or set apart from other dwellings, private rooms or private place. • FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS– design for group living. • COSTS– rent, buy, furnishings, repair, maintenance. • ROLES—patterns of behavior that people display in their homes, the workplace, and their communities.

17. Roles • List all of the roles held by each person in your household. • How do these roles influence the person’s housing needs.

18. Space and Privacy Needs Group Reflection • How does age affect people’s space and privacy needs? • How do hobbies and interests affect people’s space and privacy needs? • How does the personal priority of family unity affect people’s space needs?

19. Individual Work • Identify some different types of households. • How can housing satisfy each type?

20. HOUSEHOLDS Five basic types: • Nuclear family • Single-parent family • Blended family • Childless family • Extended Family

21. Life Cycles • A series of stages though which an individual or family passes during its lifetime. • Individual Life Cycle • Family Life Cycle

22. Individual Life Cycle • Infancy stage • Childhood stage • Early childhood • Middle childhood • Late childhood • Youth Stage • Adolescence • Teen years • Adulthood Stage

23. Individual Life Cycle • Go back and identify a person in each life stage and substage. • Write their name next to the category to help you remember.

24. Family Life Cycle • Six stages of family development that provide a pattern that most families follow. • Families spend different amounts of time in the same stage. • Families can be in two stages at once.

25. Family Life Cycle • Couples Stage: the early period of marriage when the couple is without children. The husband and wife make adjustments to married life and to each other. • Expanding Stage: this is the time when the family is growing. It includes childbearing periods.

26. Family Life Cycle Developing Stage: this occurs when the children are in school. Parents work to meet children’s changing needs. Launching Stage: when the children become adults and leave their parents’ house. They may leave to go to college, take a job, or get married.

27. Family Life Cycle Middle Stage: the time between when the children leave home and the parents retire. Retirement Stage: couple stops full-time work and adjusts to having more time.

28. Life Cycles and Housing Needs • Your housing needs change throughout your life. What are some examples?