Slow or Not

In a century of immediacy where the "all-ephemeral" is the rule supreme, a new trend appear, the concept of Slowness. Start in 1986, by Carlo Petrini with the organization of Slow Food, the movement grow up with passion and ambition, it spread in the field of urbanism (with the Citta Slow), architecture, design, fashion design…

Here, I try to open minds about the question of Slowness.
(escuse my English, I'm trying to improve it.)

Harmonie Henrio — Indoor Architect and Object Design student in Paris —
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City is harmful to brain.

Between potential threat due to circulation, urban life and consumeristic temptation our brain is subject to innumerable stimuli which ask him an unbroken work. If it looks insignificant, this mental suractivity is extremely exhausting, as it runs one of the principal weak spot of the brain: its capacity to concentrate.

Natural habitats too are full of objects which get our attention, but they don’t active negative emotional responses (unlike car and crowd).

Perhaps can we learn to built cities less aggressive and more respectful with the cognitive limits of the brain.

For now, the spanish architecture agency Selgascano make some jealous… Draw by the architect Iwan Baan , them offices take place on the nature heart.

For more (in French) Comment la ville nuit-elle à notre cerveau ?

Posted on April 14, 2010 ()