Color and work spaces: for functional design
Dettagli
Course Objectives:
You will learn how to apply colors to design workspaces that enhance overall perception, protect vision, and improve the physiological well-being of those who use them, reducing stress and potential frustration.
You will master the correct use of color to minimize fatigue, irritability, and conflicts, thus increasing work efficiency.
You will stay up to date on all scientific and aesthetic implications related to color usage and its interaction with light, aiming to create a balanced, pleasant, and motivating work environment.
Target Audience:
- Architects | Architecture firms
- Interior Designers
- Architecture or Design students
- Engineers
- Surveyors
- Designers
- Companies specializing in office design
Course Overview:
Color serves multiple functions, conveys information, and significantly influences our judgment of an environment or an object.
For this reason, color designers must always consider human reactions to color and stay informed about the latest scientific discoveries in neuropsychology, applied psychology, visual ergonomics, and psychosomatics. This is especially crucial when designing a workspace, where people spend most of their time.
Numerous studies in applied work psychology show that an unsuitable, monotonous, and dull work environment leads to fatigue and loss of motivation. These issues create a negative perception of the workplace atmosphere, affecting overall mood and productivity.
Each sector has specific characteristics based on the type of activities performed. Given this diversity, it is impossible to define a single standardized color system applicable to all corporate spaces. However, some fundamental principles regarding visual conditions and the functional use of color are common to all work environments and should always be followed.
A well-balanced color project improves perception, protects vision, enhances overall physiological well-being, and alleviates stress and frustration.
A correct use of color reduces fatigue and irritability, boosting work efficiency.
Here are some benefits of applying color correctly in corporate spaces:
- Improved well-being and productivity of employees (private companies, professional offices, public institutions).
- Increased sales.
- Strengthened corporate identity and communication.
- Enhanced well-being and productivity of team members.
You will analyze case studies that have successfully integrated color design, understanding how and why certain choices were made. This will help you explore new and relevant questions about color usability and application.
The course will be held online for a total of 8 hours, divided into 4 sessions, and will be led by Prof. Massimo Caiazzo, President of IACC Italy (International Association of Colour Consultants).
The final session includes a project work activity where participants will apply all the concepts learned under the supervision of expert instructors.
What’s Included:
Recordings of each session, available for two weeks exclusively to enrolled participants.
Course Details:
The Color Design for Workspaces course will be conducted online, live, with recordings available for two weeks after the course completion, exclusively for registered participants.
If you purchase a single course, the fee must be paid in full.
The fee is refundable only if the course does not start due to insufficient enrollment (minimum 5 participants – maximum 16 participants).
Do you work in a design studio, or do you know someone who might be interested in this course?
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Both of you will receive a 15% discount on the course fee (not combinable with other ongoing promotions).
If you want to design workspaces that enhance user well-being and corporate productivity (for public and private institutions, professional offices), this course is for you!
You will discover how to make the right color choices to design environments that not only improve aesthetics but, above all, boost the performance of those who use them every day.
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Syllabus
Introduction: Color Between Art and Science
Considerations on color from both a scientific and humanistic perspective: from philosophy to natural sciences, from biology to medicine, from anthropology to psychology, from physics to color theory, from design to visual ergonomics, from architecture to art.
Analysis of the main types of color contrasts
Understanding color harmonies to match colors effectively. Chromatic contexts are livable and effective only when supported by balanced relationships.
The psychological sense: synesthetic associations
The term synesthesia refers to all those phenomena in which auditory, olfactory, tactile, or visual stimulation is shared by two or more senses. Even in the experience of color, information converges into sensations that engage other senses, triggering psychological reactions.
Color ergonomics for business spaces.
In the design of an office or business premises, color is often overlooked or mistakenly identified as merely a decorative element, without considering its significant influence on human behavior at the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious levels. This triggers chain reactions that can often be detrimental to work dynamics.
Chromatic climate in business spaces
The chromatic climate is the set of relationships that are established between the attributes of color, light, and all elements of the context. A favorable chromatic climate makes environments harmonious, facilitates spatial perception, enhances our sense of orientation, and consequently facilitates all the actions that are carried out daily in the workplace, improving productivity.
Effect of consonance and compensation
Color can play a consonant role by supporting a given environmental situation, or it can oppose specific environmental issues, compensating for them. How and when is it necessary to act in one direction or the other?
Final project-work
Sharing of final project work: structuring of a corporate space according to the briefing provided by the instructor. Group discussion.