I stumbled onto the nature-creativity connection completely by accident while trying to solve a productivity problem I’d been tracking for months. My marketing analysis work requires a lot of creative…
When you walk into any building – whether it’s a doctor’s office, a business, or even our church – the first space you encounter sets the tone for everything that…
You know, after thirty-eight years in the same house, I’ve given a lot of thought to stairs. Not just because mine are getting harder to climb – though there’s that…
After spending the last few years modifying our house for my wife’s health needs, I’ve learned a lot about how much our environment affects our daily wellbeing. The kitchen, especially,…
After eight years of modifying our home and yard to better support my wife’s health needs following her stroke, I’ve come to understand something that should have been obvious all…
Okay, so I’m not exactly staying at five-star hotels on the regular – my travel budget is more “find the cheapest thing on Booking.com that doesn’t look like a horror…
I’ve been reading about something that really caught my attention – how companies are redesigning offices to connect workers with nature. It’s called biophilic design, and after spending most of…
I never used to pay much attention to how museum spaces were designed until I started taking my kids to them regularly. Before parenthood, I’d walk through exhibits focused mainly…
I’ve been tracking my workspace productivity metrics for years now, and about 18 months ago I started noticing something interesting in my data. On days when I worked from coffee…
My wife and I have visited our share of wellness centers over the past few years, partly for her physical therapy needs after her stroke, partly because we’re both interested…
After my wife’s stroke eight years ago, we both needed to find new ways to stay active and manage stress. Her physical therapist recommended gentle yoga, and I started doing…
When I first heard the term “biophilic city,” I had no idea what it meant. But after watching my kids respond so differently to various environments – thriving in some…
# My Love Affair with Nature-Inspired Fabrics (And Why Your Couch Might Be Making You Sad) You know, when I first got into this whole biophilic design thing, I was…
Okay, so I’ve been thinking a lot about fabrics lately, which is honestly not something I expected to care about when I first moved to this tiny studio. But after…
Look, I’ll be honest – when I first started getting obsessed with workspace optimization and biophilic design elements, I had no idea how to actually measure whether any of this…