Moving Beyond Thermometer Readings
Multiple factors temper impressions
Enhance Experience
Plants Preferred
Confirmations and new insights
Light and Hyperactivity
Conditions and their consequences
Smellosophy – What the Nose Tells the Mind
Tools for effective sensory management
New Circadian Lighting Resource (01-15-21)
The Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer, has released materials that can support the development of energy efficient circadian lighting n classrooms and hospitals. As a press release from the LRC reports the LRC team “published new guidance documents for designing circadian-effective lighting in K-12 classrooms and hospital patient rooms while avoiding increased energy use. . . .
Extensive Office Post-Occupancy Study (01-14-21)
Candido and colleagues surveyed people working in Australian office buildings to learn more about their experiences. They report that “A total of 1,121 post-occupancy evaluation (POE) surveys conducted in 9 offices were analyzed. All these premises hold a certification from the Green Building Council of Australia and two achieved a WELL rating. . . . Highest scores for overall satisfaction, workability, perceived productivity and health were reported on WELL-rated premises.
Space Use, Post-Pandemic (01-07-21)
Lai, Webster, Kumari, and Sarkar (in press) make space-use suggestions related to social density management and appropriate social distancing: “School buildings are generally very inefficiently used, being unused at weekends and evenings. This gives scope for lower-density classes by spreading across time. . . . Future housing must also focus on the creation of a multi-functional design with inherent abilities to couple living with working to enable work-from-home routines that can not only facilitate performance efficiency but also individual’s wellbeing. .
Designing Post-Pandemic
Findings from neuroscience studies probing humans’ design-related experiences during the pandemic are beginning to be published. Applying the research-based insights that can be drawn from these investigations makes life-affirming future settings more likely.
Office
Clues for future spaces
Public Space Considerations
Components driving experience
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