Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Offices for Photography
There’s been lots of press about how the rise of selfie-type photographs is influencing design. Designers are devoting a lot of energy to optimizing how things look in the sort of images a user’s phone/camera is likely to capture –including how meals look on plates. With the new importance of social media, which is a visually oriented medium, this is hardly surprising. One way that designers can increase the likelihood that people will take photos somewhere/of something is to have that place/object be awe-inspiring. Awe, in addition to generating all sorts of photos, has a slew of positive psychological benefits, which have been detailed in previous columns in this series – and people can be awed, with all of its benefits –whether they snap a photo or not. Research indicates that, beyond social media posts, there are positive repercussions of taking photos in a space. When people take a selfie …
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