Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Volumizing

by Sally Augustin, Ph.D. | October 17th, 2022

The space around us is best when actively managed. Unconsidered empty volumes can be wasted places, and few of us have enough resources at our disposal to not use whatever we’ve got as well as we can. Yes, I’m talking volumes here.  The empty air space around us. We’ve discussed scenting in the past, positively putting users’ noses to work, in previous articles (in brief, always very subtle, lemon for more brain intense work, peppermint for less cognitively demanding efforts, lavender to boost trust), but that’s not our focus here. Neither is ventilation, which we’ve also talked about before (in short, more clean air from outside and an airflow minimum of 30 cfm/person, whenever possible). Here, we’ll focus on empty space that can reasonably be not empty; that is it can have people in it. Standing up moves us into a different part of the volume of a workplace than …