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Welcome

An Introduction

For Design
Professionals





What is:

A small branch of
Traditional Chinese Medicine

Health-Centric Design

A scaffolding of information for
how to position ourselves and
arrange our spaces so we can
thrive

Framework understanding of
the interaction between the
outside world and our inner
physiology

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Environment & Human

“In my opinion, the greatest error
which I have committed has been
not allowing sufficient weight to
the direct action of the
environments…independently of
natural selection…

“When I wrote Origin, and for
some years afterwards, I could
find little good evidence of the
direct action of the environment:
now there is a large body of
evidence.”

--Charles Darwin

Energy & Meaning

“Concerning matter,
we have been all wrong.
What we have called matter is energy,
whose vibration has been so lowered
as to be perceptible to the senses.

There is no matter.”

― Albert Einstein

Everything is Always Moving

“We are happy when

for every
something
inside of us,

there is a
corresponding

something
outside of us.”

― William Butler Yeats



DESIGN FOR THE PURPOSE

Nourish the People in their Purpose

How to Design
a Prison That Actually
Rehabilitates Inmates.

A prison in San Diego is trying to improve the
inmate experience through good architecture
and design. FastCompany

Lawrence Anderson Photography

Lawrence Anderson Photography

Today
We Can Establish a

Shape

Finish
Color
Position





Design Science: Humans require movement, beauty, curves & color

Examples of stimuli used in the study.

Oshin Vartanian et al. PNAS 2013;110:10446-10453

©2013 by Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences



Chronic, low-Level Stress is a killer.



“Designing a sterile or unnatural
space, as modern design has a
tendency to do, may actually be
alerting our brains to conditions
unsuitable for flourishing…

“…not only do we see a clear
link between aesthetic
judgments and assessments
that are more fundamental to
survival, but also a mechanism
that describes this relationship.”
Oshin Vartanian

How long will the
occupants live
with those
designs?

Acute vs Chronic Stress

Shapes tell
stories to our
subconscious
and create our
experiences







Body perceives and initiates stress
response

Energy moves along the shapes

Energy flows throughout spaces as
directed by shape

Where energy is stopped or flowing
too fast is a challenge













Shape

Finish

Color
Position



Shape
Finish

Color

Position



Water

deep, powerful, fluid, reflective

Purpose: Quiet, Deep, Meditative
Water

Tree

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independence, growth, healing, visualization, trus

Purpose: Healing, Restful, Uplifting
Tree