Loving Nature From the Inside Out

McGee, Beth; Marshall-Baker, Anna

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“…The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reliability of the BID-M developed by McGee and Marshall-Baker (2015) for its applicability to urban residential playrooms. No study has evaluated the measure in playrooms outside of institutional buildings (such as children's healthcare facilities) or for its suitability in urban interior spaces.…”

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Testing Reliability of Biophilic Design Matrix Within Urban Residential Playrooms

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Playtime in urban cities has become an indoor activity for children due to limited access to natural outdoor environments. This product of urbanization makes the case for the introduction of biophilic design. However, playrooms are often neglected as a possibility in designing a natural space indoors. Interior designers and other specialists lack a reliable tool to identify and incorporate biophilic features into the design of these indoor environments in urban settings. The Biophilic Interior Design Matrix (BID-M) developed by McGee and Marshall-Baker quantifies 52 of Kellert’s biophilic design attributes to assess their presence and absence within interior spaces. We expanded its use by testing the matrix in a new type of space, urban playrooms, and coded images of 45 children’s playrooms within Manhattan residential buildings in New York City, including assessing a larger sample and reliability rate compared to McGee and Marshall-Baker’s research. Inter-rater reliability of the overall design matrix and individual matrix items was measured with percent agreement and free-marginal multirater kappa. Reliability testing showed overall good reliability of the overall design matrix. Several matrix items had low reliability between raters. Our findings show that the BID-M needs to be modified to better assess urban interior spaces for children.

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“…As illustrated in Figure 3 A, creating therapeutic indoor environments is applicable not only to residential homes, but also for hospital rooms, assisted-living facilities and hospital at home (HaH) programs [ 151 ]. While biophilic design has been recognized by healthcare facilities [ 22 , 152 , 153 , 154 , 155 ] and assisted-living housing [ 156 ], there are no reports of applying health-related interior design for HaH care. The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed an interest in home care services [ 157 , 158 ]; therefore, therapeutic interior design for HaH may offer additional clinical benefits.…”

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“…In the U.S. alone, the design of disease-specific therapeutic environments could benefit a significant portion of the 330 million people living in 128 million households. To this end, the Biophilic Design Matrix has been proposed to facilitate the implementation of biophilic attributes by interior designers [ 22 , 159 , 160 ]. Future prospects for therapeutic interior environments can also include integration with digital health technologies for migraines [ 161 , 162 ], chronic pain [ 163 , 164 ] and depression [ 165 , 166 ].…”

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“…Biophilic design principles are generally organized into three categories: nature in the space, nature of the space and natural analogues [ 12 , 22 ]. Nature in the space is creating a visual connection with nature; for instance, using vegetation (plants, flowers and trees) both outside and inside a residential space.…”

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“…In addition to residential spaces, biophilic design is applicable to healthcare facilities [ 22 ] and workplaces [ 23 , 24 ]. For example, biophilic design was recently utilized in long-term residential care for people with dementia [ 25 ].…”

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Healthy Dwelling: Design of Biophilic Interior Environments Fostering Self-Care Practices for People Living with Migraines, Chronic Pain, and Depression

Huntsman¹,

Bułaj

2022

IJERPH

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The benefits of biophilic interior design have been recognized by healthcare facilities, but residential environments receive relatively less attention with respect to improving the health of people living with chronic diseases. Recent “stay-at-home” restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic further emphasized the importance of creating interior spaces that directly and indirectly support physical and mental health. In this viewpoint article, we discuss opportunities for combining biophilic interventions with interior design, fostering disease-specific self-care. We provide examples of designing residential spaces integrating biophilic interventions, light therapy, relaxation opportunities, mindfulness meditation, listening to music, physical activities, aromatherapy, and quality sleep. These modalities can provide the clinical benefits of reducing migraine headaches and chronic pain, as well as improving depressive symptoms. The disease-specific interior environment can be incorporated into residential homes, workplaces, assisted-living residences, hospitals and hospital at home programs. This work aims to promote a cross-disciplinary dialogue towards combining biophilic design and advances in lifestyle medicine to create therapeutic interior environments and to improve healthcare outcomes.

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Hospital design for older people with cognitive impairment including dementia and delirium: supporting inpatients and accompanying persons

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Fleming

Goodenough

et al. 2019

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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Loving Nature From the Inside Out

Abstract: Further use of the BDM as a tool for strategizing biophilic feature inclusion can thus increase the connections available with nature in the interior, beneficial for optimizing health and wellness.

Cited by 30 publications

References 27 publications

Testing Reliability of Biophilic Design Matrix Within Urban Residential Playrooms

Testing Reliability of Biophilic Design Matrix Within Urban Residential Playrooms

Healthy Dwelling: Design of Biophilic Interior Environments Fostering Self-Care Practices for People Living with Migraines, Chronic Pain, and Depression

Hospital design for older people with cognitive impairment including dementia and delirium: supporting inpatients and accompanying persons

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