Using Internet as Souces

Design Websites:
http://www.architecturaldigest.com/
http://www.designspongeonline.com/
http://www.materialicious.com/
http://www.graphic-exchange.com/home.html
http://www.id-mag.com/GeneralMenu/

News Websites:
http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.foxnews.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-global-world.html
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm

Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Dilani, A., 2001. Design and Health-The Therapeutic Benefits of Design. svenskbyggtjanst.

Discusses latest research findings and information about the most recent approaches to healthcare design. Not just caring for and improving the structure, but also strengthening health processes.

Kirklin, Deborah and Ruth Richardson., 2003. The Healing Environment, Without and Within. London, England: The Royal College of Physicians.

Looks at the partnerships between patients, artists, clinicians, architects, and managers and how those relationships can enhance patient-centered care.

Malkin, J., 1982. The Design of Medical and Dental Facilities. New York, NY: Van Nostrsand Reinhold Company.

Recognizes medical facilities as one of the fasting growing commodities of the architectural marketplace. Discusses the psychology behind the doctor’s office and medical building- its more than just knowledge about architecture or interior design.

Marberry, S., 1997. Healthcare Design. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, INC.

Looks at assessing the basic elements that create a quality healthcare facility. Covering materials, space planning, furnishings, and lighting.

Prasad, S., 2008. Changing Hospital Architecture. London, England: RIBA Publishing.

Discusses how hospital has morphed through the years. Specifically looks at three areas: post-war history of British hospitals, early inception stages of hosptals, and analysis of changing context and financing construction.

Purves, G., 2002. Healthy Living Centres. Oxford: Architectural Press.

Explores the process of designing buildings for primary healthcare. Achieving successful design through healthy living and good work relationships.

Trant, K. 2003. Just What the Doctor Ordered. The Architects' Journal: The Home of British Architecture. 1 December 2009. http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/just-what-the-doctor ordered/146970.article.

Trant discusses the coming together of many different professions; medical planners, doctors, architects, designers, and how important it is for them to create environments that make a difference to the value of good design, to the environment patients heal in, to the recovery of the patient, and the performance of the nursing staff.

Psychology Talk

Last Wednesday I attended the lecture Mhairi Bowe gave entitle "Is There More at Home Than the Heart: The Psychology of People and Places". She talked about what it is about a place that makes it a home to somebody. The factor she believes to be the most important in defining home is the people there. No matter where a person is, it can become home through the family or friends that are present.
She also talked about what some psychologist call the "emotional impact of geopgraphy", and how a physical location can change a persons personal identity and social identity.
I agree with what she says about people making a place home. My parents moved from Texas, where they had lived all my life, to Colorado last year. Even though I have only been to the house there three times, it is still home because that is where my family is. I do still consider Conroe, Texas where I grew up, my home as well, but becasue of the memories associated with that geographical location. It was also interesting to think of this subject so far away form home and family. If my family was here in Dundee with me, I'm not sure I would consider Scotland my home. So maybe there are limitations and the strtch of geographical-emotional boundaries...

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.