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Humanise: A Maker's Guide to Building Our World - DIY Projects & Creative Construction for Home, Office & Community Spaces
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Publisher: Penguin UK, ISBN: 9780241389799, Author: Thomas Heatherwick, Format: Paperback, 9.5 x 12.5 x 5 cm, 496pp
Thomas Heatherwick draws on his own work, the ideas of other experts in the field, and recent advances in neuroscience and cognitive psychology to offer both a case against the inhumanity of modernist design and a rallying cry to everyone to imagine the world anew. Looking through his eyes, we take in places around the world, old and new, famous and obscure, that can sap the life out of us—or nourish our senses and our psyche.
Heatherwick shows how design has a profound effect on our mental and physical health, the climate, as well as the peace and cohesion of societies. He shows how a flawed idea of utility and 'efficiency' has engulfed our towns and cities and hardened into a form of bland minimalism. But it doesn't have to be this way—there are other ways to build—with the power to lift our spirits, engage and connect us.