Learning About Resting (11-02-15)
An interdisciplinary team is focusing on learning more about rest.
An interdisciplinary team is focusing on learning more about rest.
Insights from the social and cognitive sciences should inform the design of atriums, whether they’re public or private, meant to encourage socializing or working or waiting or something else, or used by hundreds or only a few people at a time.
Communication—verbal and nonverbal—is vital to our wellbeing and performance and at the core of our human-ness. Space design can support or thwart our efforts to exchange desired and needed messages.
Green roofs benefit the people living and working under them as well as those who look at their plantings. Research on green roofs and related topics details what's best for these users.
Promoting conversation and life-enhancing design
Observing your way to better design
Utilizing color's parameters
Making a difference with scents
Recently completed research by Salvi, Bricolo, Franconeri, Kounios, and Beeman links eliminating visual distractions and searching for insightful solutions to problems.
Drazin and Kuchler have edited an intriguing look at the link between materials and the society in which they’re used.