Designology: How to Find Your PlaceType & Align Your Life with Design
Feb 2019 · Mango Media Inc.
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About this ebook
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 advice and real-world examples sure to help make your house a happier place to be.
Move forward with your design projects: Bust through the design paralysis that affects so many by applying verified science-based insights. Designology will help you regain control of your design-related efforts with suggestions customized to your personality and space-related needs.
Find out what really matters: Designology teaches you how smells, textures, and other factors in your home influence your happiness. It shows you how your personality and ideal design styles are really related.
Readers will learn about:
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 advice and real-world examples sure to help make your house a happier place to be.
Move forward with your design projects: Bust through the design paralysis that affects so many by applying verified science-based insights. Designology will help you regain control of your design-related efforts with suggestions customized to your personality and space-related needs.
Find out what really matters: Designology teaches you how smells, textures, and other factors in your home influence your happiness. It shows you how your personality and ideal design styles are really related.
Readers will learn about:
· How to sound-scape a place whether they need to concentrate or think creatively
· How to use scents in their home to help their family feel healthier
· What to read into their spouse’s desktop landscape
· How to use paint to make their living room feel more comfortable
· And much more!
Take on your intimidating design tasks with confidence using this practical, personalizable how-to guide.
About the author
Sally Augustin, PhD, is a practicing environmental/design psychologist and the principal at Design With Science. She has extensive experience integrating science-based insights to develop recommendations for the design of places, objects, and services that support desired cognitive, emotional, and physical experiences. Her Design With Science clients include manufacturers, service providers, and design firms in North America, Europe, and Asia. They book Design With Science's services again and again?applying cognitive science pays off. More information on clients and past work is available upon request. Dr. Augustin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Work completed by Dr. Augustin has been discussed in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Forbes, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Prevention, Salon, and Self and design publications worldwide. She is an invited contributor to the online version of the Harvard Business Review where she has contributed articles on a range of topics, from engaging workplaces to design and culture. For Metropolis, she has written a series of articles about successful spaces titled "Places that Work." She has discussed using design to enhance lives on mass-market national television and radio programs. As the editor of Research Design Connections, Dr. Augustin has written widely on science-based design for a broad audience of people interested in the designed world. She speaks frequently to audiences in North America, Europe, and Asia at events such as the annual meeting of the American Institute of Architects, the International Design & Emotion Conference, the bi-annual meeting of the International Positive Psychology Association, the bi-annual meeting of the Association of Neuroscience for Architecture, NeoCon/IIDEX, the American Psychological Association’s annual meeting, the Environmental Design Research Association annual conference, Healthcare Design, Living-Futures, and Applied Brilliance. Sally Augustin is a graduate of Wellesley College (BA), Northwestern University (MBA), and Claremont Graduate University (PhD). She holds leadership positions in professional organizations such as the American Psychological Association (past-president, environmental psychology division) and the Environmental Design Research Association (chair, work environments network). Dr. Augustin is the author of Place Advantage: Applied Psychology for Interior Architecture (Wiley, 2009).
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