By Healthcare Facilities Today

Futurists have it all wrong. With every new movie, video game, animation or illustration depicting images of our inevitable Star Trek-inspired future, uniformed people drone about occupying countless dehumanized spaces. Apparently, our decedents will be colorblind opting to eat, work and play in lifeless rooms adorned in nothing but white on white surfaces with ivory accents, said interior designer Christie Meyer in her Healthcare Designed blog.

"These dystopian images are cliché at best, used simply to identify to the viewer that the scene is set “in the future”.  Evidence-based architects and interior designers have a different image of what is to come; healthcare interiors that are tranquil and comforting—architecture that nourishes our body, mind and spirit," Meyer wrote.

Mayer offers these methods to create a healing environment

• Embrace warmth. 

• Spread out your budget.

• Hide the scary. 

• Be an advocate for great acoustics. 

• Art is not an afterthought. 

• Do no harm. 

• Feed the soul. 

Read the blog.