There’s been a growing awareness for quite some time now, that rooms are in fact about a lot more than how they look. Feelings – you know, the real life, human kind – have crept up on us to become just as relevant to interior design as the likes of colour, form, texture, material and layout. It’s called neuroaesthetics. Sitting at the intersection of neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, design, architecture and aesthetics, it’s the study of the physical impact that aesthetic stimuli such as beauty, design and art have on the body and brain.
We’re moving past spatial perception being the domain of the eyes alone – all of our senses can contribute to measurable brain activity that occurs when we interact with a space, revealing how our surroundings truly…
