Luke Laverty

Throughout my professional and academic careers, I have worked to develop a holistic approach of progressive environment- and experience-design based on research with respect to emotional connection and the exploitation of technology. My design passion is for performance--both human and genuine sustainability. An example is my research in psychology and architecture, notably my thesis work. Starting with the goal of reaching the strongest emotional connection to one’s surroundings, I turned to psychology and the scale of industrial design, coming across the concept of flow—that of when one is so mentally absorbed with the current activity that the boundary between environment and inhabitant becomes transparent—during my research. My thesis "Immersive Environments" manifests Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s concept architecturally—a concept useful with respect to comfort, inspiration, and concentration.