Question
Explain the concept of 'Environmental design'.
Solution
The built environment usually involves the concept of 'environment design'. The idea of 'design' contains some psychological features, such as.
• The creativity of the human mind as expressed in the work of architects, town planners and civil engineers.
• The sense of human control over the natural environment as shown in the building of dams to regulate the natural flow of rivers.
• The influence on the kind of social interaction that takes place in the designed environment. This feature is reflected, for instant, in the distance between houses in a colony, the location of rooms within a home or in the arrangement of work desks and seats in an official setting for formal or informal gathering.
