Future Learning (by GOODMagazine)
how a 9-year-old girl’s food blog forced healthier lunch options (see article on good)
love everything about this. reading is fundamental’s rebranding.
http://www.fastcocreate.com/1680271/reading-is-fundamental-s-electric-rebrand
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behavior change
Spiegel interviewed psychologists Wendy Wood and David Neal, both of whom research behavior change. Neal pointed out that public awareness campaigns generally work for actions that people perform infrequently, like giving to a charity or donating blood. However, these campaigns do not work well when it comes to habitual actions, like smoking or eating. The reason for this is because our environment comes to shape much of our behavior. According to Wood, 45 percent of our behavior throughout the day is repeated. She describes us as being “integrated” with our environment; we spend most of our time in just a few locations where it becomes easy to form complex routines and a myriad of habits. Neal highlighted a familiar scenario that demonstrates how environments can shape our behaviors: “For a smoker the view of the entrance to their office building — which is a place that they go to smoke all the time — becomes a powerful mental cue to go and perform that behavior.” He suggests that the best way to create behavior change is to “disrupt the environment” in a way that might help to “alter the action sequence and disrupt the learned body sequence that’s driving the behavior,” which allows us to snap out of our learned behavior and “reassert control” of our actions. So smokers who want to kick their habit might use a different entrance into their workplace in order to eliminate that cue. Vietnam veterans beat their heroin addiction by leaving the place where heroin was easy to get, by changing their social circle, and by adjusting to a new daily routine. All of these changes in environment helped to modify their behavior.
http://changeobserver.designobserver.com/feature/flies-in-urinals-the-value-of-design-disruptions/33108/
