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Newsletter: Designing Therapeutic Gardens for a Senior Population

Designing Therapeutic Gardens for a Senior Population Steven J. Orfield, Martha Tyson

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We were pleased to welcome Jonathan Halperin (pictured) to discuss "A New Agenda for Sustainability, Human Sustainability" (Steven J. Orfield, Contract Magazine).

We are also grateful for the connections that Jonathan facilitated with his colleagues that were attending Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)'s conference, Building an Intersectional Philanthropic Approach: Climate Change, Agriculture, and Healthy Rural Communities. These new friends include Former Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, Sophia Murphy, PhD, Mark Muller, and Haley Burns. We look forward to the unraveling of ideas and to understanding the potential intersection of our efforts...

Thank you to Jessica (Jenkins) Dalton of ThinkLab for your brightness and Sandler’s for engaging Steven J. Orfield in a compelling interview. Thank you also to our friend AJ Paron for bringing us together...

CEU Podcast - The Science of the Senses: Decoding Noise Join this episode of The Learning Objective by Baresque to explore noise awareness in all sensory domains and discover inclusive design solutions for everyday comfort.

It was a pleasure to have FISTA Innovation Park’s leader Krista Kelli Lynn Ratliff to our lab. Thank you for joining us!

Newsletter: Wellbeing in the Workplace

In honor of Wellbeing Awareness Month, we have put out a new newsletter that discusses the issue of wellbeing in the workplace environment.

Wellbeing in the Workplace by Steven J. Orfield

We are pleased to be offering group sessions through Minneapolis Community Education!

To view all of the events, including Sound 80 Studios Tour, Multi-Sensory Tour, and Group Sessions in “The Quietest Place on Earth” click below.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uBEFH2o5TdduMOODUBgcZUx5rIjgmN8x-At8AJrCikU/edit?usp=sharing

Orfield Laboratories: Anechoic Chamber Experience - Group Session in “The Quietest Place on Earth” (Southwest) Experience a silent, dark group session in the Orfield Anechoic Chamber, otherwise known as “The Quietest Place on Earth” (Guinness 2005, 2012, 2021). Defined as a room that is 100% sound-absorbent, Orfield’s chamber has been recognized internationally for its level of silence, measuring at an...

Writer Casey Darnell of the Star Tribune joined us last week for our first session of Group Perceptual Silence. Read his account below…

I spent an hour with four strangers in the quietest room in Minneapolis (and the world) Minneapolis' Orfield Labs is offering group tours of the quietest room in the world. Could you sit in silence for an hour with the lights off?

Last week, we concluded our first two sold-out sessions of Group Perceptual Silence. During each session, 5 people sat together in our anechoic chamber for one hour, silent, in the dark.

For more information about these sessions or to book online, visit

Tours / Events | Orfield Laboratories Inc Step into the expansive breadth of Orfield Laboratories Inc., the world's only independent, multi-sensory design research and consulting lab.  This 1.5 hour tour of the facility is designed to immerse visitors into the lab's specialty in the sciences of human perception as related to design, the hi...

A recent piece by Fox 9 on our upcoming sessions of Group Perceptual Silence. To view upcoming experiences, visit https://www.orfieldlabs.com/tours

https://www.fox9.com/video/1425562

World’s quietest place opens for tours A private testing facility that studies noise and silence is opening their Anechoic Chamber for tours. That chamber is recognized by Guinness as being the quietest place on Earth. The chamber is used by companies to test product volume and sound quality. The tour includes a 60-minute session in the....

Many thanks to Joe Mazan of Channel 5 KSTP for covering our upcoming sessions of Group Perceptual Silence! For the first time in three decades, we are opening up our anechoic chamber for silent group experiences, beginning on March 15th.

To book a seat, please visit our website at https://www.orfieldlabs.com/tours

Group tours to start at the quietest place on Earth in Minneapolis It's known as the quietest place on Earth and soon you'll be able to check it out.

A nice piece that aired on WCCO this evening.

Orfield Laboratories is home to the quietest room on earth — but that's not all The inconspicuous little building on East 25th Street was once a famous studio called Sound 80.