by Brian Rupp | Sep 9, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
When we talk about how an architectural space makes us feel, we tend to focus on two things: our visual perceptions, and our assessment of how the space works from a utilitarian standpoint. Our eyes see the various shapes and colors that the architect has created, the...
by Brian Rupp | Sep 9, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
There was an excellent symposium on the role of sound and “music intervention” in healthcare, Care for Sound, held at Lund University in Sweden on October 17, 2013. A number of distinguished speakers, all of them either clinicians or academics (or both),...
by Brian Rupp | Sep 9, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Many new hospital waiting rooms are feasts for the eyes. But what do they sound like? In my last post I described a healthcare waiting room scenario in which the lack of any masking sound made it difficult to have a private exchange of information with the...
by Brian Rupp | Sep 9, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
What is it about medical waiting rooms that seems to magnify the anxiety we already feel as we’re about to see a doctor or wait for a loved one to go into surgery? On a recent visit to the doctor’s office with my teenage son, what struck me most about the...
