Forrest Painter Design

Broadcast & Media Appearances

NBC Today Show: Week of April 16th, 3rd hour (scheduled) Maria Menounos, commentator.

LA Times HOME Section: March 8th, 2007. Space to Soothe the Psyche.

Constance Forrest & Susan Painter: Interviewed on A&D: Architecture and Design, Santa Monica NPR radio station KCRW, 2005.

Constance Forrest: Appearance on Christopher Lowell Show, ‘Finding Your Style’. Discover Channel, 2002.

Susan Painter: ‘Campus Spatial Archetypes and Neurobiology: How our responses to the environment are hard-wired in our brains and what this means for campus planning and architecture’. International Webcast sponsored by Society for College and University Planning, April, 2004

ForrestPainter Design: design construction featured in ‘Canals’, Zagol Films, December, 2004

Susan Painter: ‘Inward Journey, Part II: Neurobiology, Student Adaptive Capacities and Campus Spatial and Strategic Archetypes.’ International Webcast sponsored by Society for College and University Planning, March 2005

Books Citing ForrestPainter Design

House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live. Winifred Gallagher, 2006, Harper Collins (Chapters 3 and 7).

New Directions in Environmental Psychology. Robert Bechtel and Azra Churchman, Editors, Chapter in Handbook of Environmental Psychology. Kathryn Anthony, author.

Articles Citing ForrestPainter Design

“Armchair Analysis.” In Wall Street Journal Vol CCXLV No. 39 February 25, 2005. (Alexandra Wolfe, author)

“Designing Psychologists.” In American Psychological Association Monitor on Psychology, Volume 35, No. 7 July/August 2004. (Lea Winerman, author) Published in print and on-line media.

“Recreating the Past: You Do Go Home Again.” In December 2, 2004 issue of the Boston Globe (Linda Matchan, author)

“Design Psychology” In Research-Design Connections, Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter, 2004. (Constance Forrest, Psy.D. and Susan Painter, Ph.D., authors)

“De-Stress Your Life” in Health Magazine OnLine, November 2004. (Carmen Pease, author)

“An Interesting Career in Psychology.” In November/December 2002 issue of the Psychological Science Agenda, the newsletter of the American Psychological Association Science Directorate. (Susan Painter, author)

Teaching and Academic Activities

UCLA Architecture/Interior/Environmental Design Program: ‘Design Psychology.’ Elective course developed and taught by Susan Painter & Constance Forrest: 2004; 2005; 2006.

UCLA Architecture/Interior/Environmental Design Program: ‘Human Factors in Design.’ Required course taught by Susan Painter:1991-2000.

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada: ‘Design & Behavior’ Elective course in the Schools of Architecture, Industrial Design and Psychology taught by Susan Painter, 1990-1996.

Selected Papers Presented at Conferences

Susan Painter: ‘New Brain Science: Physiological, Psychological and Emotional Responses to Physical Space.’ Conference on the Architectural/Engineering/Construction Firm of the Future. Sponsored by ZweigWhite Cambridge, Mass, October 2005.

Susan Painter & Constance Forrest: ‘Inward Journey Part II: Neuro-biology, immunology and spatial archetypes in the campus environment.’ Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for College and University Planning, July 2004.

Susan Painter & Constance Forrest: ‘Neuro-biology, Species Survival, & Campus Spatial Archetypes’ Invited Address to American Institute of Architecture Knowledge Summit, Austin, Texas, June 2004.

Mary Beth Robinson and Constance R. Forrest: ‘Design Psychology, Furniture Design, and Personality.’ Paper presented in Symposium: Design Psychology and Personality: A Paradigm Shift in Client-Centered Design. Co-Chairs, Constance R. Forrest and F. Duncan Case. Annual meetings of the Environmental Design Research Association, 2002.

Constance Forrest: ‘Design Psychology: Designing Psychotherapists' Offices as Healing Environments’ Paper presented in Symposium: Design Psychology: A Clinical Approach to the Person/ Environment Relationship. Chair: Jay Brand. Annual meetings of the American Psychological Association, 2002.

Susan Painter: ‘Using Psychology to Design a State Court of Appeal Building.’ Paper presented in Symposium: Design Psychology: A Clinical Approach to the Person/ Environment Relationship. Chair: Jay Brand. Annual meetings of the American Psychological Association, 2002.

Constance Forrest and Susan Painter: ‘Design Psychology, Design Preference, and Personality’. Paper presented in Symposium: Design Psychology and Personality: A Paradigm Shift in Client-Centered Design. Co-Chairs, Constance R. Forrest and F. Duncan Case. Annual meetings of the Environmental Design Research Association, 2002.

Constance Forrest: ‘Design Psychology: Transforming the Client, Transforming the Space.’ Paper presented in Symposium: Design Psychology Applied: Hands-on Design Using Psychology as the Principal Design Tool. Chair, Susan Painter. Annual meetings of the Environmental Design Research Association, 2001.

Constance Forrest: ‘Using Design Psychology to Foster Psychological Growth and Change: A Case Study in the Design of a Psychotherapist's Office’. Paper presented in Symposium: Design Psychology: Case Studies in an 'Inner Vision' Approach to Architecture and Design. Chair: Kathryn H. Anthony. Annual meetings of the Environmental Design Research Association, June 1999.

Susan Painter: ‘Using Design Psychology as an Educational Tool: A Case Study in the Teaching of Human Factors in Design at UCLA’. Paper presented in Symposium: Design Psychology: Case Studies in an 'Inner Vision' Approach to Architecture and Design Chair: Kathryn H. Anthony. At the annual meetings of the Environmental Design Research Association, June 1999.