Scents Meet Virtual Reality for Wellbeing – “Science News”
Virtual Reality has taken a turn for the better by incorporating smell! There is a new report which uses views and smells to augment the virtual reality to create calm spaces in nature for...
Home Design and Lockdown Depression
The bottom line of this research is that we need larger spaces and look out onto greenery, awe also need natural lighting, better acoustics, art, greenery and privacy… Design-depression links have been identified using data...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…
Seeing oneself in a mirror makes it more likely we’ll follow the rules that our society has set for us, so they’re good options for places such as entry areas where properly stowing boots...
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...
80% of people prefer curves…
Creating a path? Work in a curve. D’Acci, collecting info on urban streets, found that “80% of a . . . random sample of 102 people stated to prefer, ceteris paribus [other things being equal]...
How woodland sounds enhance wellbeing
Hearing nature sounds is relaxing, very relaxing. A press release from the United Kingdom’s National Trust reports, “The crunch of snapping twigs underfoot. Lilting birdsong from above. The rustling of trees in the breeze....
Lighting conditions that give you more self-control
Do you spend too much, eat too much, or do anything too much? You might be interested to know that you have more self control in certain sorts of light than in others. This...
Seating to stimulate conversation
We can sit in all sorts of angles to each other, from nose-to-noise to ear-to-ear. Fiorillo and associates determined that “Experiments in which participants were asked to talk to each other while sitting at...
Biophilic design is growing!
Biophilic design uses the same design principles indoors that we’d find in an outdoor space where we feel very comfortable. In a workplace design study utilising biophilic design elements such as plants, water (a...
Create harmony in your home with colour
Using some colours together creates more harmonious or pleasing combinations than others.Among combinations that are more desirable are:The same or similar huesThe same or similar saturation levelsEach relatively light or differ only in lightnessLess...
Silently Signaling With Colour
Cultures have meanings that they link to particular hues—so if you’ll be sharing a space with someone from a different part of the planet, it’s good to get their input on colours you intend...
Colour and Gender
[restrict] To settle a continuing dispute in many homes, women do indeed have better colour vision than men (men’s vision is more tuned to moving objects than women’s). So, if you’re trying to decide...
Stop the walls closing in!
What you’ve heard throughout your life is true, lighter colours on walls do indeed make those walls seem a little farther away than they actually are while dark colours on the same walls bring...
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