ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT
When you lack physical stimuli in your environment, your brain does not develop fully, making you have less resilience. In an enriched environment, you are less likely to get ill, recover quicker from diseases and are more likely to get older.
What does an Enriched office look like? Together with Jenny Morton, Professor neurobiology from University of Cambridge, Govert Flint collaborated with a team of designers to create three meeting rooms that all contain Environmental Enrichment. An enriched office is an office that communicates with the body at at 5 different levels:
MOTOR
VISUAL
COGNITION
SOMATOSENSORY
CIRCADIAN RHYTHM
According to Jenny Morton, enrichment is different to each person. A way to find out what enrichment suits to what person, is to offer people three types of enrichment. Therefore, three meeting rooms were designed. Alissa van Asseldonk came up with the idea to devide the rooms based on Howard Moskovitz insights in diversifying pasta sauces: Plain, Spicy and Extra Chunky.
CREDITS
Scientific partner: University of Cambridge, Prof. Jenny Morton
Design Team Enrichers:
Alissa van Asseldonk, Nienke Bongers, Luuk van den Broek, Govert Flint, Govert Geerts, Aliki van der Kruijs, & psychologist Florijn Vriend
Also with designs from:
Michiel Martens & Jetske Visser, Chris Kabel, Arnout Meijer & Roos Gomperts
Study trip by: Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
Photos: Mark Kuipers & Bart Brussee
Cambridge video: Ziggy Pictures
Product video: Ronald Smits