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Kyle Heikkinen
Karlton Lattimore
The ideas this study suggested were crucial to the formulation of our
‘outdoor meditative’ concept. One result shown was that higher levels of
vitality occur outside even when controlling for social/ and physical
circumstances. It was also indicated that those participants exposed to
natural images also experienced an increase in vitality. A final point to
mention was that nature mediated this effect of outdoor vitality, making it a
potential tool for energizing the employees of the Haworth Ideation group, as
in our meditative spaces. We used this information to propose the idea that
the vast outdoor space could potentially be used as ‘vitalization zones’, once
explained in this diagram:
The area in red indicates the possible location for outdoor reflection space,
based on our inferences from the vitalization study.