Workplace Design: Supporting Communication and Collaboration
Current research elaborates ways in which messages sent by designed elements directly influence workers’ attitudes and actions, including collaboration and approach to innovation.
Current research elaborates ways in which messages sent by designed elements directly influence workers’ attitudes and actions, including collaboration and approach to innovation.
Leonard investigated the push to green workplace design using ethnographic research tools.
The design and management of the natural environments available to suburbanites and city dwellers have a significant influence on the well-being of humans and their planet.
The majority of “healing gardens” and other outdoor spaces in healthcare facilities do little or nothing to address environmental concerns, but with care, sustainable and therapeutic landscapes can complement each other.
Williams and his colleagues have reviewed the content of award-winning children’s books and found that they are devoting less attention to the natural environment.
Niki Harre, a professor at the University of Auckland, is making available free at the website noted below a book length discussion of “strategies to inspire sustainability.”
Worldchanging “is an online, open-source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design.”
The Center for the Built Environment at the University of California Berkeley conferred its 2011 Livable Buildings Award on the Enermodal Engineering Headquarters building (Robertson Simmons Architects Inc.) in Kitchener, Ontario.
The Sustainable Cities Collective focuses on sharing information that promotes the development of sustainable communities.
Marris has written an interesting introduction to nature conservation.