How To Increase Creativity
How to design your home and office to increase creativity.
Architect Donald Rattner is the principal of an award-winning architectural consultancy dedicated to maximizing occupant creativity in workplace, residential, wellness, hospitality and retail environments. An educator and author as well as a practitioner, his new book is called “My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation.”
In this episode, we cover:
- 4:20 - Creative places
- 5:55 - Stick building and modular structures
- 6:40 - Co-creativity and Lego
- 7:42 - Little boxes
- 9:14 - The creativity of curves and circles
- 10:53 - How to think out of the box
- 13:49 - Bloomberg building in London
- 15:28 - Environmental psychology
- 16:16 - Why most conference rooms aren't creative
- 16:46 - Spatial superiority
- 17:43 - Proximity to power
- 19:19 - Sociopedal vs Sociofugal
- 20:06 - Proxemics
- 20:28 - Psychedelics
- 20:49 - CERN vs Downing Street
- 26:08 - Why the colour green increases creativity levels
- 27:17 - The role of nature in creativity
- 28:32 - Abstract vs Analytics
- 31:34 - Noise levels effect on creativity
- 33:01- 70dB
- 33:35 - Why you get some of your best ideas in coffee shops
- 34:49 - The creativity of Marcel Proust
- 35:45 - Music and creativity
- 40:51 - Roger S Ulrich 1984 study on hospital environments
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- donaldrattner.com
- amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1510736719
- Tools: Scrivener, Spark Mail App
- Book: The Myths Of Creativity by David Burkus
- jamestaylor.me/david-burkus
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