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Fueled by an increasingly interconnected world, the desire for engaging experiences plays a more important role in interiors than ever before. There is a tendency in the design of products, furniture, and environments toward enhanced interaction that employs psychosocial principles. This publication presents both high and low-tech applications ranging from a light fixture to art installations and fully realized buildings. The book illustrates human-centered design strategies through a series of six chapters, each including examples that introduce one of following approaches: communicating, stimulating, synomorphic, transactional, transformative, and challenging.
People and Spaces explores our relationship with our environments, unveiling the unique ways that built environments and human behavior interact in today's rapidly evolving world and climate. Co-edited by a designer and a psychologist, this book brings together diverse perspectives and voices working at this intersection to reveal how built environments influence our daily lives from, the ways we express ourselves, to the structure of our societies, and even global landscape. By showcasing a range of viewpoints, case studies, and innovative research, People and Spaces equips readers in any discipline with knowledge to enhance human-centric spaces in meaningful ways. Through a blend of essays...
A simple guide to creating spaces at home and work that align with your personality type and support your goals—with the help of science. Discover a new paradigm: Are you an adventurer or a visionary? A maverick or a maven? Designology makes design personal through environmental and design psychologist Sally Augustin’s 8 personality “Placetypes” that characterize the different ways we can relate to the space around us. Personalize everything: What color should you paint your child’s bedroom? How do shapes and patterns influence how you think in a space? How do room dimensions influence you psychologically? Designology answers all these questions and more with practical how-to advic...
This fresh look at the Arts and Crafts Movement charts its origins in reformist ideals, its engagement with commercial culture, and its ultimate place in everyday households.
Environmental Psychology for Design, Third Edition, shows how rooms and buildings can affect an occupant's behavior and health by explaining psychosocial responses. Recipient of the American Society of Interior Designers Joel Polsky Prize, the book introduces you to the discipline of environmental psychology and encourages you to embrace its key concepts and use them in your practice. This new edition adds information about aging and vulnerable populations and has updated resources and research. Features -Cultural Connection and Sustainability Connection box features highlight the great diversity in the application of the subject ideas and concepts -Point of Views (POVs) highlight different ...
Recent decades have seen an increase in the number of terrorist attacks, necessitating the development of more efficient global security policies. One of the most important elements of this enhanced security is the protection of critical infrastructure. This book presents edited contributions from the NATO Advanced Training Course (ATC) on Critical Infrastructure Protection - Best Practices and Innovative Methods of Protection, held in Agadir, Morocco, from 6 to 12 May 2018. The main objective of the course was to bring together specialists working in the area of protecting critical infrastructure in NATO Member and Partner countries to share their knowledge and expertise. One lecture block ...
Ein modernes Thema - vor allem angesichts der Entwicklung eines Rotavirus-Impfstoffs und der Identifizierung zahlreicher neuer Gastroenteritis-Viren. Beschrieben werden Struktur und Molekularbiologie der SSRVs wie Caliciviren und Astroviren sowie Aspekte der Pathologie der Infektion. Der interdisziplinäre Ansatz faßt Ergebnisse aus der Grundlagen- und der klinischen Forschung zusammen.
The successful combination of a regional building style of sophisticated simplicity with sustainable construction methods has made the architecture of Vorarlberg a model for the rest of the world. This book presents particularly successful projects from recent years involving various building types and portrays their development from design idea to built detail. The documented structures by Cukrowicz Nachbaur, Christian Lenz, Oskar Leo Kaufmann + Albert Rüf, Hermann Kaufmann, Dietrich Untertrifaller, Baumschlager Eberle, Marte.Marte, and Martin Rauch place the focus on their energy strategy and formally ambitious construction methods. All of the plans and detail drawings were specially prepared for the book, which makes it easy to compare the projects.