Google workspaces are famous to be friendly playful and colorful.

Do you think that this playful and colorful spatial design has a real influence on the quality of work life and the quality of work that people can produce in the environment?

Yes. I think it doesn't have to go as far as Google. But for sure, it helps playing, it helps communicate with other, it helps spontaneous things to happen where you can learn from it. It really helps with innovation.

I have a weird study for you.

Prisons had done some studies where they changed the color of the room mm-hmm.

To measure how angry the people got in these rooms.

And I think Pink worked well to bring down the level of brutality when they are put in these solitary rooms.

And so color, based on that, has really an emotional impact on the person.

A lot is going on now or since the eighties in the realm of healthcare and wellbeing. For example, in hospitals. There are a lot of studies

There was once a study about people have a certain disease and have to stay a long time at the hospital.

They found out that if the patients look out of the window on a brick wall, they recover quiet slowly than someone who is looking out of the window into nature. They need less medicine. They recover quicker.

They're the early study and there's now it's re relatively new,

the Swiss Center for Island Health, also in Switzerland. And they're dealing with design and health, but not necessarily in the Field of healthcare. It's not only hospitals.

I think it's more about the atmosphere in a space than only color.

And atmosphere is something that you think you have it in your hand and understand, and suddenly it's gone.

There are also studies about that and literature. For example, Barbara Mutzbauer, she's also a lecturer with us. She made her PhD about atmosphere.

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