Your Creative Push

Sarah W. Goldhagen taught for ten years at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and spent many years as the Architecture Critic for the New Republic. She’s written about buildings, cities, and landscapes for publications all over the world. Sarah’s new book, Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives is a thoroughly entertaining, eye-opening manifesto arguing that the buildings we live and work in deeply affect us, physically and psychologically, and that we can’t afford the soul-crushing architecture we mostly subject ourselves to.  Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/sarahgoldhagen In this episode, Sarah discusses: -How her book, Welcome to Your World is a shift from the work she previously did. -“Blindsight” and how we take in information subconsciously or nonconsciously. -How there is no such thing as a neutral built environment.  It is either helping you or hurting you. -The story of when she had to change her setting while writing her dissertation. -What creative people ca