The Role of Environmental Psychology in Workplace Strategy
Strategists, designers, students
What does the discipline's founding science actually contribute?
Privacy regulation, territoriality, environmental stress and restoration are not design vocabulary — they are the mechanisms behind the field's recurring failures and the evidence base for its recurring answers.
- Four constructs every strategist should hold
- The published failure cases strategy keeps repeating
- From construct to method: where the science enters the process
- Reading the literature without cherry-picking
- Environmental psychology foundational literature (Altman, Kaplan, Ulrich)
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Kit of Parts
The definition of the complete workplace setting system — every setting type, its purpose, quantity, requirements and behavioural logic — from focus and team settings to hospitality, wellbeing and specialist environments.
Workplace Behaviour Review
The periodic qualitative review of how people actually behave in the workplace — the norms, adaptations and workarounds that quantitative streams register but cannot explain.
Architectural Guidance
The translation of the concept and kit into design-governing guidance: spatial, environmental, acoustic, lighting, thermal, biophilic, accessibility, technology and identity requirements the design team must satisfy.