Designing for the End of Life
The last place can be a good place
The last place can be a good place
National culture affects room design desires
New research confirms that people from different national cultures vary in how they perceive their physical worlds.
Different places on the planet => different preferences
Think that the ways that cultures discuss colors don’t change or that all cultures speak about the color spectrum in the same way? Think again.
Grenness’ work indicates the importance of aligning national culture and workplace design.
Torelli and his colleagues researched links between preferred brands and culture.
Blending cultural symbols in a single space or object can cause tension.
How we sense and make sense of the environment around us—and how our brains work with information, in general—varies based on where we are on Earth. Expectations and interpretations of experiences also aren’t the same across the planet.
Research continues to accumulate indicating that people from different cultures literally look at their world differently.