atmospheres: workplace, urban life, continuous change

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Our wellbeing as humans is also based atmosphere we breath. Today, due to the pervasiveness of the Man Made World, the Social Atmosphere is particularly relevant for our wellbeing.What’s made of a Social Atmosphere?

It’s the instinctive self status we feel, due to the overall set of our perceptions.Perceptions caused by our interaction (sensitive and behavioral) with multiple stimulus, coming from the world built by the humans: • relationships with others, • light and generally form of the spaces, • materials’ aspect, • tact, • processes/ activities, their complexity and speed of change, • common sense, culture and stereotypes about all these “things”, • etc.

My intent in this exercise, is to help (generally with visual supports) to feel how some of the mentioned stimulus, positively or otherwise, can impact on some dimension of our overall wellbeing.In particular: workplace, urban space, continuous change.

Social Space Atmospheres

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Let’s stop with the workplace atmospheres that aren’t welcoming, make it difficult to be task focused, without any beauty, near a hymn to the triviality. The awareness that the wellbeing into the workplace is the result of a wide spectrum of factors is quite slowly progressing.

Initially, regarding processes and spaces: functioning and not impeding (bureaucratic, obstructing ...). Then the relationships (“people aren’t leaving the companies, they are leaving their bosses”). Now (at last) we are arrived to the atmosphere concept, the overall set of perceptions (relationships, light, spaces, processes, experience of the materials, ...) that produce the “to be-in feeling well"...

Workplace Wellbeing


“How it is” “How it could be”

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Social Atmospheres don’t influence us on the workplace only. We share the same experience when we “feel” our city. Our best muralists are helping the urban communities “to give voice” to their identity (and to their discomfort):• they support to make more human the suburban spaces that are now resulting more grey than the concrete;• they contribute “to look upwards and to see the colors”, away from our daily habits;• they make visible the people’s discomfort that they aren’t able to shout out.

Thanks to all the colleagues and fiends that love all the street art expressions and that contributed with the photos, from their cities and during their trips

Urban Wellbeing: Atmosphere Transformation


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The change is glamour. It can also create discomfort.

May be it will create to someone negative effects in future, due to dynamics we don’t have now any awareness?Can it happens that we will step by step risk to loose the feeling about “what the reality is”, if it is continuously moving? Is there the same risk for our personal identity, it too under a continuous movement?

Isn’t a nightmare “à la P. K. Dick” if a camera too, one of the most objective eyes we have to detect the objects, see in this way the effects of the excessive movement on things.

I know you are just to say: <<Yes but, the limits of the machine, exposition, focus… >>, but are you sure that the man haven’t any limit?

Continuous Change Viability


atmospheres: workplace, urban life, continuous change

Leadership & Management