Encouraging Creativity, Sometimes (02-06-12)
Spurring creativity, in both design solutions and by people in spaces after they’ve been designed, are popular and hotly debated topics.
Spurring creativity, in both design solutions and by people in spaces after they’ve been designed, are popular and hotly debated topics.
Researchers have found additional links between metaphorical expressions and how we live in our physical world.
It turns out that thinking about metaphors has a very particular influence on what our brains are doing.
Many people listen to music while working. How does it influence their ability to do cognitive tasks?
Vuoskoski and Eerola have learned that sad music can make you feel sad, although the relationship is more complex than you might expect.
Are you working with someone for whom scents, from new carpets or building materials, for example, are a really important issue?
Researchers at Baylor have collected additional evidence regarding the ways in which place communicates nonverbally.
Gray explores the influence of interpersonal interactions on experience.
People doing or using design research won’t be surprised by O’Brien and Ellsworth’s recent findings.
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.”