is difficult to summarize 3 intense days of presentations, tables, workshops, debates, ... in just a blog, but hey, at the request of my readers I will try.
As you know l @ s that follow are accustomed to social networking sites like twitter or facebook, from 9 to February 11 I ran away to Almeria where they celebrated the XI Congress Environmental Psychology, a real event that finally put faces to names as read, known and admired.
The theme for the conference which was dedicated this year was "Urban Spaces and Sustainability" , l @ s so you know what I'm concerned that recently with the idea of \u200b\u200btransforming our cities, the desire imaginaréis and illusions that led to the event.
Congress opened the Workshop on Comprehensive Assessment of Sustainability of Local Action Plans, coordinated by Herranz-Pascual Karmele One of the environmental psychologists applied the national scene and that each intervention is working to find the pragmatic sense of the different lines of research.
After that began the avalanche of conferences, symposia and panel submissions:
Maria Luisa Lima (Lisbon) taught us that the challenge of environmental psychology today is in part landscape construction and the proof is his own work in the participatory planning process at the time of dam building management.
Ricardo de Castro , who has been working within the Ministry of Environment of the Junta de Andalucía, moderated a symposium which took contributions from the psychosocial field global climate change and the role of human behavior.
The second day continued with the interventions of Bernardo Hernández, who spoke on attachment to place-based studies in the Canary Islands, José M. Palma and Fatima Bernardo investigating the relationship between place attachment and discrimination and occupation of the territory, later Sergi Valera showed us the positive side of environmental psychology, focusing on promoting the welfare and the theory of flow of unpronounceable Csikszentmihalyi.
After that, he played pick, so inevitably choose "Public Space" moderated by Mamen Peñaranda and Pep Vivas-Elias , all the interventions I stay with Jose Simoes and Ramon Ribera taught us how through the theater on the one hand and citizen mobilization can change the perception of public space and even his physiognomy.
The grueling second day ended with a plenary symposium in the room "bioclimatic" (which was rather a refrigerator at maximum power) moderated by Iñiguez Lupicinio around sustainability and new approaches emerging around the concept. No doubt I'll stick with the intervention of Jordi Bonet showing the impact of citizen participation in urban transformation and the different ways to incorporate the citizen in decision-making.
already fairly scorched with neurons began the last day, where a stunning Terry Hartig, spoke of how certain environmental contexts may be able to restore our attention and mitigate problems such as stress and fatigue a. I can think of many applications in fields of knowledge such as medicine, architecture, design, ... By the way, my sincere thanks to the translator good, because if it is on the other, we understand little of the conference, ha, ha, ... Although I admit my fault, I should practice more my poor English.
choosing mid-morning, and this time hit listen to the presentation of my roommate, Ignacio Pisano, who masterfully explained his research based on data from the Andalusian Ecobarómetro where correlated high environmental awareness with the probability of having a pro-environmental behavior , it appears that the least in Andalusia, there is much difference between what people think and say and how it behaves afterwards.
I only had one afternoon, after lunch I went into the table on Institutional Spaces and Housing, where the language barrier to learn more deprived me, I recognize my knowledge of Portuguese is horrible. And to end the controversial conference Joseph M. Oliveira da Palma with the suggestive title "Homo Sapiens vs. Homo Artiflex (smartass) or the inevitability of environmental destruction , which left no one indifferent generated an intense debate on what our active role in conservation or destruction of our environment.
Ultimately this is the record of 3 days of intense sweating Environmental Psychology in Almeria, but obviously there are more things in the pipeline: They walk on the beach Almeria (most restful environment) tapas those routes by the more typical Tasquita guided by the team of hostesses @ s of Congress, meet people from so many nationalities in this and the other side of the pond with one common bond, our passion for environmental psychology and especially thank to Eva and Nacho , my traveling companions, the team will Córdoba environmental psychologists to talk soon!
Then I started to recall all the places where he had been working all my offices, classrooms, shared, alone, different groups of comrades s, ...
A hour characters as "economically fashion" as Merkel and Sarkozy will not stop naming the word and encourage us to be more productive in our jobs. How do you think our work environment affects our productivity?
is proven that the work environment influences not only the productivist d, but also how a worker feels in their working environment, these areas also to work or even live, can promote or hinder specific behaviors.
How do you think several factors as color, light, noise, space, if there are natural elements, the personalization of place ...?
Empirical studies show that it works best with natural light , although they normally use white light, people are more effective by working with light yellow or amber. I must say that I have now better lit the office of the building where I work from 9 in the morning I get a little sun for the window that keeps me warm the room all day.
About lack of privacy, it often happens that the leaders have their private space and the other workers shared open spaces with little privacy, but in my case I become a privileged I have my little office spacious with private bathroom, my table, cabinets, chairs and even an armchair that "recycling" of another place where I usually take minisiestas very restorative. When workers are crammed into little space, generate discomfort, irritation and there is more likelihood of conflict between them and even bosses and superiors. I still remember, many years, a few months I spent working in a shared office space Granada where 6 people, 5 girls and me ... if that lasts a few months living together, I swear that just as the dawn rosary!
As you know, lately I'm quite interested in how to improve our immediate environment to make them more livable, functional, sustainable, ... and certainly one of the closest is our work, where we spend much of our life, for that environmental psychology has interesting tools: If you want to transform an environment is important to make a planning as participatory as possible, would it be logical to remodel an office with no say in who will work there? Following the execution of the project that we have no "use that instead on a daily basis" and finally, environmental psychologists, we would bring out an assessment postocupación , when a site has been completed or converted, it is important to evaluate their performance because it lets you know whether it met the objectives for improvement.
I started remembering the humidity of my office and I ended up with a whole dissertation on the application of environmental psychology to work settings, ugh ... how I roll it up, but when something you love, you hardly realize! So I recommend to everyone that, as would a good friend of mine, "customize" your work, I started a long time and is like my creative sanctuary in it I have personal photos, postcards of places known motivational phrases , a clown nose, a scarf of the boat, ... somewhat eccentric, I know, but it's my corner.
And finally I leave a "Trivial question" Who do you think better supports unfavorable conditions at work, men or women?
The solution in a few days ... in your favorite blog!