Organised by Baylight Foundation
Walmer Yard’s reading group, Forum, will launch its new season with the neuroscientist and author Colin Ellard.
Ellard’s book Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life explores how our surroundings affect our thoughts, emotions and wellbeing.
From our experiences of ruins, to shopping centres or our own homes, Ellard’s writing looks at how these elements of urban design have influenced us throughout history, and how are brains and bodies respond to these different types of spaces.
The book investigates the influence new technologies will also have on our evolving cities, and what world we are, and should be, creating.
Ellard will be in conversation with Walmer Yard’s keeper Laura Mark, and this will be followed by an audience discussion.
In this season of talks, neuroscientists, environmental psychologists, geographers, and anthropologists will talk about their work and how it relates to the field of architecture.
This series of talks will be taking place online via zoom. All participants will be sent a link to join ahead of the event.
Tickets are sold on a donation basis. All proceeds from the sale of tickets directly fund the work of the Baylight Foundation, which exists to deepen the public understanding of experiencing architecture through residencies at Walmer Yard and a cultural programme, as well as collaborations with artists, scientists, and other practitioners and organisations in arts and sciences.
Book a ticket, here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forum-places-of-the-heart-with-colin-ellard-tickets-150921936575?aff=TheDots
- architecture
- science
- geography
- cities
- design
- research