Publish at October 17 2018 Updated April 28 2022
Due to poor acoustics, students in classrooms can lose up to 50% of what their professors say. Patients in hospitals have trouble sleeping because they continually hear stressful noises. Julian Treasure issues a call to action to designers to pay attention to the "invisible architecture" of sound.
Time: 9min51
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