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.
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