Meet my catalysts

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS

These are some of the people/organisations/movements/books (that I managed to note down & remember) that have influenced, motivated, inspired & acted as a catalyst for my career journey...

31/07/17
What is an architect? What do they do?
- Eric Reinholdt runs a youtube channel that gives handy tips for architecture students & learners.
- This video sends the message of the 'changes' of the 'doings' of an architect - entrepreneur, creative arts/media etc...
01/08/17 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLUU6wcA3qE&t=1s

Architecture career
Lee Waldrep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMe6ov3uElE

20/08/17
Rebel architect
Mond Qu

Non-traditional architects:
-Pedro Gadanho
-Bruce Mau (entreprenur, art, architect)


Arch, art & design
http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1370&bookId=265&l=en
https://soundcloud.com/spike-island-bristol/alex-coles

Arch. thinkers
Nikos A. Salingaros (a polymath!)
Christopher Alexander (Pattern Language)

25/08/17
Multipotentialites
Emelie Wapnick 
TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJORi5VO1F8

'Scanners'
Barbara Sher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZKb2HCZPQ
http://www.scannertribe.com/
http://www.sustainablepace.net/refuse-to-choose-barbara-sher-scanners

Polymaths
http://www.carmentablog.com/2017/02/16/three-great-polymaths-aristotle-michelangelo-burton/
Favourite architects
Buckminster Fuller (worked multiple fields)
https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller
https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas

other
debbie millman
john thackara

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN/SPIRITUAL/ENVIRO.

Spiritual ecology

Transition movement
- Book

Philosophy of Sustainable Design
- By by John Michael Greer
- Discovered during final year research project

my interests tied together...
https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/





CAREER PLANNING/GUIDES

What color is your parachute?
- Book
http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

...

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages & ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Designing your life
- Book



WRITINGS OF PHILOSOPHY, MEANING & ON HUMANS


School of Life
Alain de Botton

On Being
Krista Tibbetts

Brainpickings

 Ian McGilchrist
The Master & His Emissary (neuro-novel) & The Divided Brain(doc)
^11/10

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