In Practice: Future Workplaces
The future is almost here, again.
The future is almost here, again.
Why do some spaces feel like homes but not others? Scientists have thoroughly investigated the answer to this question and what they’ve learned should inform the work of designers developing not only homes, but also places such as dormitories, hotels, hospitals, and stores. Yes, stores.
Well-designed gardens are valued additions to residential and commercial areas. Like emeralds, they can boost moods and in other ways enhance mental and physical wellbeing. This article shares insights from studies done by people outside the landscape architecture world that should be applied by garden designers.
For many decades, cognitive scientists have been trying to figure out the fundamental drives that motivate humans to do the things they do. There’s a lot of general agreement among investigators, although each team seems to relish using its own lingo. Design that reflects what these researchers have learned makes lives better.
The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) met from May 18 to 21 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Applying design-related research done by social and cognitive scientists makes it much more likely that both academic environments and the people in them perform to their full potential, now and in the future.
Simonton has developed an important way to categorize human responses to situations—physical, social, cultural, and otherwise. His work can be used to anticipate how people will respond to situations, to understand how spaces can be designed to support particular responses after they occur, and to determine how to make desired outcomes more likely.
Human survival depends on water. So water, inside and outdoors, has a significant effect on human thoughts and behaviors.
Control and luxury are linked.
Children sometimes experience designed environments and objects as adults do. And sometimes they don’t. Design that anticipates how spaces and things are most likely to influence youngsters’ attitudes and behaviors supports their development and wellbeing.