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"Is Your Childhood Home a Clue to Your Best Office Space Today?"

Posted by StephanieWestAllen: "After reading Does Your Childhood Home Dictate Your Design Choices? (Fast Company blog), I ordered Some Place Like Home: Using Design Psychology to Create Ideal Places, the book discussed in the post.

 From that post:

Newsstands are crammed with shelter magazines that dictate how your home should look. Cantilevered credenzas, bamboo modern beach furniture, appliances in bold colors--these are furnishing of the moment.

Will they gratify you? Not unless you understand the emotional roots of your likes and dislikes, according to Toby Israel, an environmental psychologist and author of Some Place Like Home. Just as therapy helps a patient unravel family patterns and predilections, design psychology shows how we're unknowingly influenced by the design and décor we knew in our formative years, for good or ill. Israel helps clients "design from within" by plumbing what forms and objects from the past have positive associations. "We all have an environmental autobiography," she said. "Why not open this treasure chest and think consciously about what gave you pleasure?"

Environmental autobiography . . . writing one sounds both fun and useful."

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Source: idealawg, 30 July 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on July 31, 2009 (boomark / email).