Individualized Healthcare Design
Several recent studies have clarified how space can be used to meet individual patient and caregiver needs.
Several recent studies have clarified how space can be used to meet individual patient and caregiver needs.
Offices are designed to increase well-being and productivity, communicate symbolically, and to express an aesthetic message.
Badger reviews research related to the planning of suburban communities, and shares that information with readers outside the design world.
Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas’ character in 1987’s Wall Street) thought lunch was for wimps, but millions of workers do eat lunch, some every day. Not a lot of workplace research has focused on their lunchtime activities, however.
Frances (Ming) Kuo and Andrea Faber Taylor at the University of Illinois continue their research on the beneficial effects of time in nature for children with ADD and ADHD.
People underestimate the pleasure that they experience in nature, which has implications for the development of sustainability initiatives.
Professors at Wharton are offering advice to retailers that is useful not only for store management but also for the designers with whom they work to develop the environments in which consumers find themselves.
Whether we feel powerless or not influences how vigilant we are about our social environment, but what about our physical one?
Researchers noted long ago that men and women differ in ways that they prefer to personalize their environments.
Here’s something to ponder the next time you hear that an environment is too noisy.