Had a blast hosting our first customer webinar of 2020 with birthday boy Oliver Heath of @oliverheathdesign this afternoon. He shared a great presentation on how to create interiors spaces that will enhance our physical and mental well-being. Covid-19 is changing our lives, and the way we work and live. More so than ever, biophilic design and well-being is becoming increasingly important in the places we work, live and play. ✨ Special thanks to @tangotan who worked tirelessly on this, testing and making sure everything was smooth. 😘 You're golden! ✨ And Happy birthday Oliver! . . . #oliverheath #biophilicdesign #webinar #interface @interface https://www.instagram.com/p/B_kajF9nNb_/?igshid=iyimaejkme91
The interior designer Oliver Heath ( @oliver-Heath) (Humanspaces.com) came in for a talk about his recent works and his reason for doing so. His work is all about biophillia ( a love of nature ) so this means that his work is all about the science and style of biophillic design. Its not about impressing others but improving mental and physical health, we are becoming more urbanised but more stressed. It is natural for us ‘humans’ to have a natural drawn attraction to nature and natural processes, and this is what the biophillic design principles work around. (Listening whilst I’m sat in a dark, small window room, how ironic)
Oliver Heath explains have having a room, building where nature is visible, whether it be a large open window, or plants that are around the room, could actually improve on our physical health and mental state which has been proven. He explains how research has shown that in hospitals when a patient is in recovery that if they are in a room that has a view of the outside where there i greenery and plants are around the room their recovery time is a lot shorter than that of someone in a closed of room.
Companies have also picked up on this and have change the way a building is designed and created, a more natural feel to buildings is now become popular. Having wood within the building, or even the flow of water has been used to improve the mental state of their employees, its shown that they are much happier and which then works out for the best as the work output is greater.
Being able to sit in on his talk was actually helpful, even though my own work isn't something similar to this, it also makes me think about how colour, and images can affect the way a viewer feels. Thinking back to the work I am doing now its obvious that I myself are drawn to nature as I have featured it quite regularly in my work and like I said its visual appeasing and for some reason I just feel good about it. So it’s true it really does improve on my physical and mental health.
