places, architecture

How Places Impact Our Thinking, Choices, and Our Lives: https://interintellect.com/salon/how-places-impact-our-thinking-choices-and-our-lives/

feeling / sense / idea of "home”. What is home? https://twitter.com/j_asminewang/status/1507834812081520661

“You design your environment & your environment designs you in return” ~ if this is true, what’s a good example that comes to mind? https://twitter.com/jonnym1ller/status/1569506236940288003

Designing a physical space is different from designing a web interface in that there is no emphasis in ROI of a specific component. There is still some intentionality needed in the physical space but not to satisfy “engagement” or “business impact” like you see it in UX.

Designing for the whole is more effortless. More tender. Less quantifiable justifications are needed. It’s not about cost-benefitting the half-used candle. One surrenders to the enveloping vibe, and the details flow from there. Its intention, directed towards a holistic system, as opposed to justifying the being-ness of its parts. https://wellnesswisdom.substack.com/p/vol-49-when-picking-furniture-becomes

Architecture

Architecture is important:

Architecture defines the kinds of people we can be.
This idea sounds odd, even absurd. How can bits of wood, concrete, and metal reach inside and change something within us? Yes, it might impress and even dazzle us, but isn’t it too much to say that a building’s design can change who we are?
But when one considers it for a moment, one remembers that we are, indeed, different people in different physical contexts. In meaningful ways, you are a different person at a streetside bar, within a place of worship, or while in the queue for a visa interview at the American Embassy.
One could quibble that this is majorly because there are different social expectations in each of these places, but the physical environment helps shape what those expectations are in the first place. An embassy building that had the same physical characteristics as the aforementioned bar (however hard it is to imagine) would result in different behaviour. Architecture, for better and for worse, signals to us - and shapes - the kinds of people we’re invited to be.