Why not book a consultation with Space Doctor, Sally Augustin?
Dr. Augustin is the author of Designology (Mango, 2019), Place Advantage: Applied Psychology for Interior Architecture (Wiley, 2009) and, with Cindy Coleman, The Designer’s Guide to Doing Research: Applying Knowledge to Inform Design (Wiley, 2012).
Looking for situation-specific advice? Contact Design With Science.
Design With Science makes recommendations that boost your design outcomes.
The design of places, objects, and services significantly influences thoughts and behaviours, ultimately affecting mental and physical wellbeing. Neuroscientists have learned the details of what, when, how, where, and, most importantly, why particular experiences and outcomes are linked. Partnering with Design With Science as your neuroscience consultants is an effective way to generate unique insights and powerful design options that make lives better and achieve organisational objectives.
We will share insights that, for instance:
• Enhance performance at workplaces, schools, healthcare facilities and elsewhere
• Increase creative thinking
• Improve health
• Smooth socialising and getting along with others
• Spur sales
• Foster wellbeing and positive mental states.
We can help you:
• Apply research from rigorously derived, published scientific studies to your specific design project.
• Conduct targeted project-specific studies (e.g., using observation, interview, survey, and group discussion techniques, among other research tools).
We can answer important questions such as:
· How are our emotions and behaviour affected by surface colours? Patterns? Colours of light? What about light intensity?
· How do textures influence us emotionally? Are some naturally calming? Is it important whether we see them or feel them?
· How do sounds affect our mental state? What sorts of noises delight us? Frustrate us? Help us concentrate?
· How can scents help us learn (and remember) technical material? Be creative? Avoid claustrophobia? Feel healthier? Buy more?
· How do room and object dimensions influence us psychologically? What about ceiling heights and floor plans?
· How should design recognise and respond, in different settings, to our species’ most basic drives to survive and thrive?
· How do shapes (seen or felt) mould our experiences? When should they be curvier or more rectilinear?
· How should personality and culture inform design decisions? Are there times when they can be ignored?
Design With Science will show you how to use the neuroscience behind our physical experiences to create places where people flourish and to craft objects and services that humans cherish.
We know how to apply neuroscience research to create winning places, services, and objects—because we’ve done it.
Contact us to find out more about how we can add value to your current and future projects
Love Biophilic Design? Our other Space Doctor publishes a nature gallery.
Dr Vanessa Champion, as well as an academic she is also a professional fine art photographer and film maker. She set up The Journal of Biophilic Design as a specialist publishing company to focus on sharing knowledge of Biophilic Design and producing wildlife and landscape images and audiovisuals to help you bring nature into your lives, transforming your homes, workplaces, hotels, schools, hospitals, healthcare environments. View the Journal of Biophilic Design.
She developed a range of high quality home wear to help friends and family bring nature into their lives. You can too now with her online business. Customers range from healthcare, businesses, homes and families who want to embrace Biophilic Design and nature in their environments to reap all the benefits that brings.
Brighten up your home with some gorgeous nature inspired cushions. If you’re working from home, tuck up your laptop in a landscape laptop bags or delineate your workspace with a screen of nature.
If you’re having to wear face covering or love cycling or walking, try our Nature Eco-warrior neckwear. Click here to browse some gorgeous Homewear you can buy (ships globally).
Don’t forget your walls! Views of nature are important as you’ve learnt with us, but some fresh canvases for your home office, brighten the lounge with a view to open up for space. – Prints, framed prints, acoustic panels, large scale wall vinyls, and you can even license imagery for your own purposes!
Get a cup of coffee, kick your shoes off and browse the Nature Gallery.
And if you can’t see anything you like, why not send a request of the colour way or subject you’re after. You can even commission imagery.
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