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

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