Greenery on Homes (12-07-10)
That ivy may be destroying the façade of your home, but it’s doing all sorts of good things for your neighbors psychologically.
That ivy may be destroying the façade of your home, but it’s doing all sorts of good things for your neighbors psychologically.
Regular readers to this blog are familiar with a number of ways that the physical environment can be used to enhance mood.
European researchers, using MRI technology, have found that the color of light we are experiencing influences our emotional processing.
There is a push to increase patient- and family-centered care in hospitals and all the resulting additional amenities and in-room seating areas increase the size of nursing units.
Lee and Guerin comprehensively explored the relationship between indoor environmental quality (air, thermal, and lighting), and job performance and environmental satisfaction in five office types in LEED certified buildings.
When people feel attached to their neighborhood, they have an “emotional connection to [its] physical and social environments.”
Researchers at Notre Dame have assessed how motivated employees are at organizations working for the public good and found that they have more passion for their work and find more meaning in it than people employed at other organizations.
The interaction of place and mood continues to be an interesting and useful area of research.
Professors at Clemson University, Architecture + Health; Birdtree Studio; and NXT have researched expected changes in health care and developed a patient room that will optimize the 2020 healthcare experience.
There is more to optimal workplace design than adding a few windows.