How Places Impact Our Thinking, Choices, and Our Lives

In this salon Interintellect host Patricia Hurducas leads a discussion on how the places we live in and work in impact our thought processes, creativity, imagination, and ultimately the trajectory of our lives.

“Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must reflect the times of day, for him, as clearly as a mountain valley. This art I acquired rather late in life; it fulfilled a dream, of which the first traces were labyrinths on the blotting papers in my school notebooks.” – Walter Benjamin

How does the architecture and the design of a place impact our thinking? What contributes to the atmosphere of a space? Do we need to change our surroundings to change/hone our thinking? How can we design our homes and work places to ignite our imagination?

Other topics that we will touch upon and explore during the salon:

• building and designing homes for our (micro)communities & squads
• the impact of “good” and “bad” aesthetics on mental health and on our confidence
• post-communist places and if we could/should beautify brutalism 

Pre-salon reading/ watching list:

• The Aesthetics of Change: Exploring Post-Communist Spaces (paper)
• The Hulls of Public Space by Christopher Alexander
• Places for Thinking – With Patricia Hurducaș and Jonathan Hillis (Youtube talk with the host)
• Genius Loci – Anastasia Savinova
• Cognitive Architecture: Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment (recommended book)

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