surroundings that speak of enchantment
how do the physical places in which we live, work, and play shape us?
Ariel Sabar • Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York
I’ve seen firsthand how aesthetics change people’s attitudes and behavior from the outside in.
Ingrid Fetell Lee • Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness
What if we created the optimal conditions – where we live, where we work, where we study, where we pray, where you walk every day – for the imagination to flourish? What would you do? What would you change?
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
We use a blanket word for these values: meaning. In a good space, we explore what's meaningful to us—not what's efficacious. Spaces are where you can live expressively, and treat yourself as a source of surprise
Joe Edelman • On Planting Fields
By ‘everyday places’ I mean, the repetitive, common and taken for granted, the parts of the built environment that residents frequently engage but only truly appreciate once they develop a special meaning or character that stimulates a deeper perception.