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Building a Bridge
Building a bridge between research and design practice, Place Advantage gives people designing and using spaces the evidence-based information and psychological insight to create environments and objects that encourage people to work effectively, learn better, get healthy, and enjoy life. It answers questions such as:
- What are the emotional effects of surface colors? Light colors? How does where we grew up influence these responses?
- How and why does the form of a space influence people psychologically? Why does ceiling height matter?
- How does personality influence the kinds of places in which people flourish? How are personality and preferred design styles really related?
- Are there some sorts of physical environments in which people are more creative than others?
- What sorts of art or views produce what sorts of psychological effects?
- Why does smell matter? How can scents be used to help us learn (and remember) technical material? Exercise more vigorously and consistently? Avoid claustrophobia in tight spaces?
- How do we use our environments and possessions to communicate nonverbally? Why does that matter?
- How does noise affect our mental state? What sorts of sounds delight us? Frustrate us?
- How do the textures influence us emotionally?
- How will (or should) places be different in the years ahead?
Design with Science
Teams with designers to apply rigorously derived scientific findings and create places in which people flourish and objects humans cherish.
Research Design Connections
Informs design practitioners - in everyday language - about recent scientific research relevant to their work.
Place Coach
Works with members of the general public, applying research-based design concepts, to create places in which people thrive.