Work Location Personas
Place, person matches and misses
Place, person matches and misses
Grounding => Succeeding
Seeing all, seeing better
CADRE, HKS, and Uplift Education have written a guide to designing learning environments that support social and emotional learning, which is available free of charge (“Enriched Environments to Support Social and Emotional Learning: A Visual Design Guide,” https://www.cadreresearch.org/enriched-environments ). The webpage from which this resource can be downloaded effectively describes it: “This visual design guide contains 18 evidence-based design strategies, to be used when designing enriched learning environmen
Danvers and colleagues looked into the relationship between spending time alone and feeling lonely. They learned that “spending more than 75% of time alone was associated with much higher loneliness scores. . . . people who spend very much or very little of their time surrounded by others tend to report the greatest loneliness. . . . loneliness is particularly high among people who spend a very high proportion of their time alone (more than approximately 75% of their waking hours).
Neuroscience research details how walls can enable the lives we've planned, making it more likely that we mingle pleasantly with others, think our best thoughts, feel good mentally and physically, etc.
When neuroscience informs the design of ceilings and floors the likelihood increases that users process and respond to information from the physical world in life-affirming ways.
Shades to get the job done, whatever the goal
Henning and associates studied behavior after dark in public spaces lit in different ways. They report that “A field study was conducted to explore user behaviour in two differently illuminated public squares. Observations of the movements and stationary activities of people in the squares were recorded at both squares for the same times of day in the weeks before and after the daylight savings clock change, enabling a comparison of activity in daylight and after dark. 5296 observations were recorded and lighting conditions were captured with HDR-photography and aerial photos.
Arshamian lead a team that identified scents perceived as pleasant by cultures worldwide. They report that they asked people “from 9 diverse nonwestern cultures—hunter-gatherer to urban dwelling—to rank . . . odorants from most to least pleasant. . . . there was substantial global consistency. . . . Taken together, this shows human olfactory perception is strongly constrained by universal principles. . .