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Advances in neuroscience and neuroaesthetics continue to expand our understanding of how the senses actually work, how we work as people. The senses talk, influence and compete with one another. It’s fascinating to look at the senses as a biological language of sorts, one that all humans already speak.
In the new era of experience design, color represents so much more than a brand palette. In fact, new science has shown how highly personal color is and how it can actually trigger feelings and even memories.
Have you heard the term Sensory Wellness? Do you know how to connect to your inverse? How many senses other than sight, smell, sound, touch and taste do you know?
What criteria should a product meet to be truly ‘sustainable’? And how should our economy change to better support people and planet?
At Arigami, we wanted to take this opportunity to support the retail and innovation design community by sharing our best practices on how to apply wellness and evidence-based research into your retail design initiatives.
The psychology of games is well understood. Offering incentives in the context of a positive experience generates better engagement and builds loyalty. The effectiveness of games helps explain why the global healthcare gamification market is expected to reach $13.5 billion by 2025.
With everyone talking about technology, electrification and automation, we wanted to ask experts at the forefront of technological innovation, if this first wave of smart design includes (or can include) a space for smart wellbeing? Pre-Covid, wellbeing and mental health had already become a rapidly expanding field of interest for designers and architects alike. Now, it’s probably easier to ask who isn’t talking about it!
Wellness music is moving into center stage in the quest to end the stigma around mental health. As a tool to affect the brain, music might be the simplest and most powerful form to make a measurable impact.
Technology’s role in hotel design has arguably never been so relied upon. If you happened to miss CES 2021, fear not as editor Hamish Kilburn and wellbeing expert Ari Peralta – together, an editorial dream team – are here to share the best hotel design tech trends that emerged from the show.
The health and wellbeing of humans is inseparable from the health of our surrounding environment, and the interactions between the two are quite complex. Nature has long been a rich source of inspiration for many hoteliers, designers and architects. Nature also happens to be an endless source of wonder for biologists and engineers who seek to understand its inner workings.
As self-driving vehicles get closer to becoming a reality on our roads, new opportunities for in-car wellbeing take center stage. Transformative Technology Conference (TTC) and the interdisciplinary researchers at Arigami brought together a group of auto executives, technologists, sensory specialists, and thought leaders to talk about trends, challenges, and solutions for in-car-wellbeing.
Today, most sectors, brands and events are all pivoting towards a second digital wave. With the new COVID-19 reality, Burning Man faces the same uncertain future as other mass events, but unlike most brands and event companies, BM is augmenting human connection by challenging its creative community to take part in designing a Virtual Reality ‘multiverse’ of Black Rock City.
Our environments can have a fundamental effect on our health, with everything from the colour of the walls to the amount of sound influencing our mental wellbeing. Since more and more of our lives are played out in ‘phyigital’ (Physical + Digital) spaces, we wanted to explore innovative ways to mitigate anxiety in the spaces that we create and use everyday.
Wellness is on the rise and continues to permeate into our homes, workplace and just about everywhere else. It began as a trend and has now grown into an economic powerhouse industry, serving a variety of consumers including corporate wellness, hospitality, travel, mobility, retail and real estate.
Multisensory education is more than just a design scheme, it’s a set of ecosystem prototypes that combine research and layers of sensory experiences that cultivate and reinforce cognition and creative association in places of learning.
Drawing on all the senses (and subsenses), we see the future of mobility as empty canvases that functions like a cocoon enveloping motorists in an atmosphere of comfort, relaxation and wellness. While most car makers have undoubtedly excelled at using the senses of sound and vision to communicate a message of power and desire; the next wave of design challenges are found in their ability to integrate other sensory modalities beyond the gimmick practices of today.
Since its beginning, the hotel industry has constantly evolved and transformed to meet the changing needs of travelers. While the industry has always been innovative, the recent advancements in technology have catapulted the industry into unprecedented change. While we know of simple ways to appeal to people’s senses and encourage their well-being, the process and ramifications of how our bodies and brains relate and react to the outside world is far more complex.
