AmbientMind is the concept behind a new architectural health solution to the growing problem of destructive focus on work that is a result of the many portable devices we carry around with us today. Because our bodies and whole mental and emotional focus becomes narrowed to a screen essentially with these electronics, our capacity to think creatively and be grounded in ourselves is very limited.
The created interactional space for AmbientMind would be designed such that our thinking processes, ideas, and emotions could be captured in an expanded physical space around us in a circular room not unlike our own bedrooms in size and purpose. The focus is on a space that is comfortable and carries our identity, but also has a diverse array of tools that allow us to visualize, document, and store the products of our minds. Using a combination of mind-mapping programs, electronic whiteboards and post-it notes, and other as yet developing digital ideation systems, this room would allow the integration of much needed physical movement and being that engenders health and wellness, and the productivity of having our ideas and being able to flow through them with tools at our fingertips.
By separating the process of ideation with its intense mental processing and working memory demands, from physically embodying the working space, AmbientMind allows the ideator to optimally traverse back and forth between the tangible real world and the world she is creating through her work.