You Belong, You Just Don't Know It Yet - Still Human

I recently read Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross, an evidence-based yet gorgeously written book about how art transforms our brains and bodies. There’s a section in the book that explores a 2019 design project in which the Google Hardware Design Group partnered with a small team of architects and furniture designers. Their goal: to demonstrate the ways that color, material, shape, and sound affect us in ways we don’t consciously recognize. The result was A Space for Being, an “immersive installation that illustrated our bodies’ responses to different sensory environments.” Basically, the team designed three rooms, each with unique characteristics incorporating design elements from furniture and artwork to color, texture, lighting, and even sounds and aromas. Each guest in the exhibit was given a wristband that monitored their heart rate, respiration, and temperature as they walked through the three rooms and explored their unique designs. At the end, each guest got a re

I recently read Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross, an evidence-based yet gorgeously written book about how art transforms our brains and bodies. There’s a section in the book that explores a 2019 design project in which the Google Hardware Design Group partnered with a small team of architects and furniture designers. Their goal: to demonstrate the ways that color, material, shape, and sound affect us in ways we don’t consciously recognize. The result was A Space for Being, an “immersive installation that illustrated our bodies’ responses to different sensory environments.” Basi