Google has partnered with scientists on a Milan design week exhibition that shows how different aesthetic experiences can impact our health and wellbeing.
Developed with scientists from John Hopkins University in the USA, A Space for Being features three rooms with subtly contrasting interiors.
Each one has been designed using the principles of neuroaesthetics ? a branch of science the explores how visual aesthetics can impact our brains and physiology.
With varying lighting, sounds, scents and textures, the rooms are intended to stimulate visitors' senses in different ways. The aim is to show how good design can have a positive or negative impact of mental wellbeing.
A Space for Being features three rooms with subtly contrasting interiors "Design affects everything," explained Ivy Ross, Google's vice president for hardware design.
"What you choose to surround yourself with affects your wellbeing and your body, and the fact that neuroscience is now proving that is thrilling to us," she told Dezeen.
"Being in Milan, there are a lot of designers here," she continued. "The installation is a nod saying 'what we do matters', showing to those who aren't designers that what designers do and the choices you make in your environments do affect you."
"It's scientific proof that design is important."
Visitors wear a wristband that detects their physical and physiological responses to each space
Before entering the interactive roo...