Fang Xu Email & Phone Number

I am concerned with person-environment relationship research and systematic integration of research knowledge into design practice. My environmental research interests include dynamic visual perception, social use of spaces, and evaluative socio-psychological meanings (territorial meanings regarding identities and social rules). I advocate a transactionalist research epistemology, considering a reciprocal, ecological relationship between humans and the built environment the foundation for describing and understanding various person-environment phenomena. Methodically, I adopt qualitative and mixed methods research. I actively develop digital automation techniques for the collection and analysis of empirical and simulated environmental research data. My digital simulation investigation explores the frontier of simulation-based user pre-occupancy evaluation (PrOE). In recent years, I have been promoting course-based public interest design (PID) that highlights the extraction and utilization of urban residents' experiential environmental knowledge in community-participatory design initiatives. I recognize interactive digital simulation technologies as valuable means for enhancing designer-user communication and evaluation of user performance in the design thought process.

Listed skills include Indesign, Sketchup, Photoshop, Autocad, and 15 others.

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  Associate

  Foster + Partners

  Aug 2021 - Present - London, England, United Kingdom