Hospital Design, China (07-03-12)
Designing hospitals in China?
Designing hospitals in China?
Research Design Connections regularly presents research indicating that culture influences design choices as well as sensation and perception.
This book introduces pioneering research profiling differences in how East Asians and Westerners think.
Everett’s work will interest anyone who is intrigued by cultural and language differences and their relationship to human experience of objects and places.
Quelch and Jocz focus on retail environments, but their major points, including the importance of continuing to recognize local cultures as business decisions are made, are applicable to design of other sorts of spaces, from workplaces to public parks to healthcare facilities and residences.
Richard Nisbett and his colleagues have established that people raised in Eastern and Western cultures perceive their worlds differently.
Scientists continue to learn more about how apparently innocuous, and sometimes undetectable (at least by the layperson) differences between people have a significant influence on how individuals experience and respond to the physical world.
Ozguner’s research indicates the importance of considering users’ cultures when designing parks - or any other sort of place.
As world cultures come into increased contact, learning how specific national groups differ in their experience of the physical world becomes more urgent.
Designers can benefit from a better understanding of how people think about and react to the natural environment.