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Course Description: AEC Daily: Color in Healthcare Environments: Evidence-Based Design Strategies
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People experience color in different ways and in different settings; in particular, people in healthcare settings who are vulnerable, healing, or aging are influenced by colors used in interior design. This course presents an overview of color and how we perceive it, as well as some of the research findings on color’s effects on psychological, emotional, and physical health. Designers will also learn how color can enhance safety, orientation, and navigation, and the role that non-SBR rubber can play in offering optimal flooring solutions for healthcare institutions.
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Learning Objectives:
Investigate differences in the hue, value, and chroma of color and the ways color is perceived by people.
Describe common myths about color in healthcare as well as research-based theories and studies regarding effects of color on psychological, emotional, and physical health and well-being.
Recognize how color can benefit safety, orientation, and navigation in a healthcare facility and develop a color plan to achieve these goals.
Discuss how non-SBR rubber flooring is an appropriate and attractive healthcare flooring option, both for achieving and retaining color goals as well as meeting hygiene, comfort, safety, and durability needs of healthcare facility owners, employees, and patients.