Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Psychologically Sustainable Design
During the Spring each year, as our natural worlds are being reborn, we focus on preserving and enhancing our Earth more than at any other time of year. Earth Day was April 22nd, and most of us have been exposed to sustainability related activities in the not-too-distant past. Also, this year plans for reducing the US’s greenhouse gas emissions have been restarted as the new administration announces its priorities. Creating spaces and objects that satisfy humans’ most fundamental requirements for positive life experiences is environmentally sustainable at a profound and terribly important level. When places and the things in our surroundings meet our core needs, we can think of them as psychologically sustainable. We are not motivated to change them. Design serves our psyche’s most basic and powerful needs in sustainable ways by providing us with comfortable levels of control over our experiences, by supporting us in our efforts to …
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