Gardening in the Neighborhood (10-25-10)
When people feel attached to their neighborhood, they have an “emotional connection to [its] physical and social environments.”
When people feel attached to their neighborhood, they have an “emotional connection to [its] physical and social environments.”
It’s easy for interior designers to draw people’s attention to the passing of time or to money.
Lamy and his colleagues have investigated how names, particularly place names, make it more likely that people will think specific sorts of thoughts.
As Carney and her colleagues relate, some physical postures are more indicative of power than others: “Humans and other animals express power through open, expansive postures, and they express powerlessness through closed, contractive postures.”
Gibson and McDaniel have studied organizational behavior using a cross-cultural perspective.
In this open source article, Sailer and her colleagues introduce readers to important tenets of space syntax by investigating the influence of several office design interventions on organizational behavior.
Hua and her colleagues assessed worker satisfaction with various sorts of collaborative spaces and some of their findings have been discussed in other Research Design Connections blog posts.
How we shop and buy is changing. This has significant implications for the design of retail spaces.
What design elements affect playground use? What defines a well-designed primary school? What features do children want in common hospital spaces? Recent studies answer these questions.
Spiritual spaces are particularly challenging to design, but insight from research can be helpful.