Yes! The Places You Should Work!
On Wednesday 13th October 2021, The Space Doctors, who provide Neuroscience based prescriptions for the design of your office and home performed their poem, “Yes! The Places You Should Work!” at Workplace Trends conference at the...
How to Make that Temporary Desk your Own!
Co-working? If you find yourself in a temporary desk at a co-working site you can take steps to personalize your space. You can wear a trace of scent to create a subtle olfactory bubble...
The Best Lighting Tip You’ll Read all Month!
Do you want to sleep better? Adjusting your lighting during the day is a key feature in helping you have a better night’s rest. Switching up the lighting, also helps you concentrate during the...
Designing for Creativity
Recently published research confirms links between thinking creatively and being in less energizing spaces. Needle and Mallia report that “Open-office plans have become the dominant mode for creative workplaces, designed to encourage collaboration. . ....
Not the Same Old Oval Office
Most offices, even if they’re used by well-known people are unseen by most of us. Titans of industry and even many public officials spend their “office hours” working in places that only their professional...
Boost Professional Performance
When you’re doing work that requires you concentrate, your brain, like a sports car, fires on all cylinders, relaxing colours, options that are not very saturated but relatively bright are best. Focused thinking is...
Biophilic Design Inspiration
What is Biophilic Design and why should we know about it? Biophilic design makes us feel comfortable and relaxed in a way that nothing else does because it recognises and respects the conditions that...
What is Environmental Psychology?
Since the first of our ancestors set up a home and cared about the experiences of people living there, there has been environmental psychology. Whenever people developing or managing spaces have cared about making...
Colour psychology applied in the home of TV’s Doc Martin
For many of us, there’s no better way to spend time with the television than watching Doc Martin. Martin and Louisa and James Henry live in a murky world of tired, grayed out colours,...
Stress levels reduced by lighter wood colours
Lighter coloured stains on wood may be better options than darker ones. Burnard and Kutnar tie an oak finish to lower stress levels in workplaces, but found that a walnut one didn’t have the...
Standing up to work
Sit-stand desks are the current office must have. Can your employer really value whatever you spend your day doing if they don’t provide a sit-stand desk to do it from? Schwarz and colleagues’ research...
Encourage Creative Thinking
That sage green mentioned earlier as a great colour for an office was an even better choice than you may have realized—and no, I don’t own shares in a company that specializes in providing...
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