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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