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Psychodesign or psychological design is a system of interior design that depends on the psychological characteristics, habits and tastes of a particular person or group of people. The psychodesign methodology integrates knowledge from various fields, such as architecture, design, ergonomics, psychology and medicine. Psychological design reflects the ancient Eastern principles of Feng Shui, geomantic concepts, ecodesign, and alike.

History
Psychodesign is a new direction of design in modern life. However, the fact that the environment affects on the emotional state of a person has been first noticed a long time ago. Peter van Gogh with his idea of “life climate” is considered to be the founder of psychological design. He believed that such climate could be created by combining a number of parameters: social, economic, physical and psychological. Apart from this, the Institute of biomedical problems and the Institute of aerospace medicine had a great influence on the psychodesign history. Experts in the design of such artificial environments as space and polar stations, were engaged in designing extreme interiors for a specific person. After all, the spacecraft would become a home for a cosmonaut for a while and this home had to be made as comfortable as possible. Psychological design was patented in Russia in 2000. Two of the creators of this project are Vladimir Ruzheynikov (associate Professor at the Institute of biomedical problems, researcher and consultant in the field of creating interiors for extreme environments) and Igor Popovich (Professor at the State Academy of Theater Arts).

The purpose of psychodesign
Psychodesign is known as science for adaptation of interior, architecture and landscapes forms to a particular person, his psychological characteristics and needs. Today an evolutionary level of science of psychology allows people to adjust housing. Moreover, special tools for measuring psychological characteristics and projecting to the surroundings may be used when employing this approach. Psychological design helps us to create architecture, landscapes or interiors that would not just reflect a certain style or taste, but would fit a certain psychological portrait of a particular person. The theory of psychological design is based on the idea that interior features can activate people or make them sad, relaxed, or even force them to approach the verge of depression. In addition, the interior can even affect on the presence or absence of sales, which mainly concerns store premises. In practice, the creation of an interior model that is suitable for a particular person is possible only through the analysis of the person, their features and character. Also, it is necessary to realize a suitable interior based on the understanding of the basic principles of the relevance between design and a particular psychological reaction. Psychodesign analyzes people without separating them from their homes, because from its point of view person and home are the organic elements of a single and indivisible whole. Therefore, they can have a mutual influence. Moreover, not only a person can influence on the interior, but the interior itself has comparable psychological power over a person. By following all of these principles, Psychological design can help people to build harmoniously and well-organized relationships with others and with yourself.

Create a psychological portrait of a person
At the first stage, specialists create a psychological portrait of a person with the help of a confidential conversation with the customer, analysis of the results of psychological tests, computer diagnostics and other research methods. The customer's age, social status, health status, existing problems and goals are recorded. After processing the data, psychologists make recommendations for the design or adjustment of an apartment, house, office, plot, etc. Recommendations are often general (for example, what should be avoided in design or decoration; do not use open spaces, red colors, sharp objects, etc.), and designers have a wide scope for creativity. There are cases when specific and detailed proposals are formulated for various interior parameters: the degree of openness of volumes and spaces; the nature of the geometry and forms; colors of enclosing surfaces, furniture, accessories; types of materials; options for using fire, water, plants, etc.

Selection of artistic expression
At the next stage of work, designers select the optimal means of artistic expression. The recommendations of psychologists give designers starting points for developing the concept of the future interior and prevent possible miscalculations, which minimizes misunderstandings between the designer and the customer. If the task is to design an environment only for one person, it is enough for the architect to use methods that correspond to the characteristics of the client’s psychological portrait.

Designing a corrective environment
If a person is disharmonious in their inner world, it is necessary to design a corrective environment for them that will help to solve their psychological problems. In more complex cases, when the client is burdened with personal problems and illnesses, the designer in collaboration with a psychologist is able to offer a "therapeutic" interior that will help in relieving stress and depression, correcting various negative states, etc.

The allocation of personal space
It is necessary to allocate everyone a minimum personal space that would match individual needs for creating a "group" interior. In a shared space you should combine compositional tools that are neutral to everyone. Under conditions of moderate use of compositional means, the psychological climate in the team can be regulated. For example, it is known that the psychological distance of communication between people decreases with red lighting, but conflict increases, and the opposite effect is observed with green lighting.

Psychodesign technologies for solving commercial problems
Psychodesign technologies can also effectively solve commercial problems. For example, through the targeted use of architectural and design tools, the dynamics of store sales are increased, the appetite of restaurant visitors are stimulated. Moreover, people could completely forget about the reality in casino, psychodesign technologies could provoke an increase in work activity in the office, strengthen the state of relaxation at home and correctly solve many other tasks. Nowadays, unfortunately, cooperation between a psychologist and a designer is quite rare, but the prospects of the using psychological design techniques allow us to hope for a gradual increase in the popularity of the methods of harmonizing a person and their environment.