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How our rooms shape our world, and vice versa

Name: How our rooms shape our world, and vice versa | Aeon Videos
Uploaded: 2021-03-25
Duration: 3 min
Description: ‘This is me! Look around’: putting words into pictures to show how the mental and the physical interact in the rooms we call home

A nearly inescapable fact of modern life is that most of us spend more time in just a few rooms in our homes than the sum of time spent anywhere else on Earth – and perhaps doubly so over the past year of pandemic-related lockdowns. And so, unsurprisingly, our spaces also tend to occupy a rather prominent place in our minds. Do they need a clean? A redecoration? To be ditched for a new arrangement altogether? And what – good, bad and ugly – do they reveal about us to visitors? Featuring clever animated sequences in which talking, shifting shapes transform along to the reflective words of interviewees, Rooms explores how the mental and physical spaces of our rooms intersect and overlap.

Director: Rohan Patrick McDonald

Website: Shelf Shelf

25 March 2021