Colour affects people both physiologically and emotionally, influencing mood and reactions. Research shows that calming, cool colours like green can promote emotional well-being and reduce stress and anxiety. At St. Michael's hospital in Bristol, an artist used colourful vinyls in the shape of sound waves between children's wards to provide distraction and cheer for patients with hearing loss. Overall, the document discusses how colour, especially cooler tones, can be used to stimulate positive emotions and reduce stress in healthcare and hospitality settings.

1. Colour for the Workplace
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2. The importance of colour
A growing trend in hospital design is the creation of a
stimulating, stress free space for users.
Colour affects us physiologically as well as emotionally.
By stimulating the nervous system, colours can influence mood and provoke
reactions.
“Colour can make environments more peaceful and less anxiety provoking.
This translates into a positive mood, which encourages the healing process.”
Angela Wright “Healing Hues: Using Colour to improve Health”

3. St. Michael’s Bristol
The artist Seamus Staunton used Just Colour vinyl in this corridor between children’s wards in St. Michael’s
hospital in Bristol. There were many children being treated here for hearing loss so the artist wanted to create
colourful sound waves to distract and cheer the children as they passed through the hospital.

4. Current research into wellness in the tourist and
hospitality industry indicated that calmness is the most
dominant dimension of emotional wellness. Results also
suggest that a cool colour-themed guest room, particularly
green, is preferable
Faber Birren’s research for his book “Light, Color, and
Environment”, 1982, backs them up by further
elaborating that “bright and vivid colours could arouse
and increase autonomic functions, blood pressure, heart
and respiration rate”, whereas “softer colours create an
inward response – one of calm and repose.”

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