Design for Wellbeing

Design, Wellbeing, Environmental Responsibility. We talked about Design last week. This week, Wellbeing is the subject.

There is so much more recognition now of the importance of wellbeing and of the fact that environment plays a huge part. Every aspect of our surroundings has an influence on our mood and on our responses – the colours in which it is decorated, the way the space is laid out, the textures of surfaces, the shapes of furniture and objects.

We have come to understand, for example, that bright colours in classrooms are not as conducive to learning as we had thought but more muted colours have a calming effect;

Hospitals are no longer full of serried ranks of metal-framed seats but increasingly looking more like hotel lobbies with arrangements of modular seating and softer colour palettes;

Offices are not grey spaces lined with endless rows of desk but arranged with breakout areas, booth seating and biophilic features:

It’s quite a shock to the system these days to walk into an environment that has not put wellbeing at the heart of the thinking about space planning and design. It is certainly at the forefront of our creative processes – and that all adds to our wellbeing at rhbr too.

We look forward to working with you to put wellbeing at the centre of each project.