Interior Design in Psychology

I chose to concentrate on how interior design can relate specifically to psychology. The field of health care design has many different concentrations. Ranging from color affecting people, to Universal design. I love the union of the design aspects and the psychology/science side. Through researching, i found interest in how a patients environment affects their healing time and quality of the experience in whatever facility they are in. My sister is an oncology nurse, and in school she was taught about "whole person care", not just treating the symptoms with medication, but really getting down to the cause, and the root of the sickness. Alot of healing is mental and starts with the person's spirit, so my quest is to figure out how, as a designer, i can help create spaces and environments the stimulate theses inner processes to begin. I think successs would be helping patients heal more quickly, or have a better experience, and in turn rely less on drugs and the use of medicines.

The Law of the Few: IED

Here is the mind map our group did relating THE LAW OF THE FEW directly to Interior Design. We found that all three categories or personalities of the chapter, Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen, are all very applicable to Interior Design.

Visual Communication

I have been thinking about the statement "Design is not about the visual". I understand the thought process that social literacy needs to take precedence over aesthetic literacy... we truly do need to become more aware of our culture. So where does that leave designers? should art majors be eliminated from universities? if we are not being innovative, or creative independently, would it be more efficient to have to pick a different, non-art concentration from the beginning of school, and study and learn about the different aspects and needs that could be addressed there? How much of the aesthetic do we compromise, when visual communication carries an equal weight to verbal?

Mind Map for the chapter: The Law of the Few, Connectors, Mavens, and Salsemen

Researchers Referenced:
Psychologist Stanley Milgram, University if Utah, Rodger Horchow, Brett Tjaden, Lois Weisberg, Mark Granoveter, Linda Price, Tom Gau, William Condon, Joseph Capella.

I'm sure I missed some as I was reading, but even form just one chapter, there is evidence of a huge amount of research. Really, this book is a way a showing how Gladwell is a Connector, Maven, and Salsemen himself

I had never heard about the other rider that rode the same night as Paul Revere, Dawes. I am from the States and this a very familiar story that we are taught in History from Day 1, but i have never discussed this other side of the story.

The Tipping Point Mind Map

The Mind Mapping really helped me to process all the information because I had to reorganize it in my head before translating it to the mind map. It doesn't let you just take in the information vaguely, the details start popping out at you.