Smoke and Mirrors: How can magical thinking inform interactive and innovative design for the home?

ISBN: 3639204867

Author: Solenne, Morigeaud

Condition: New

"When I was about eleven, I remember walking back from school with a friend. Earlier we had had a german lesson which was about a boy finding money in the street, so we were speculating about how nice it would be to find some and how we would spend it if it ever happened. We did not have time to finish speculating before we found a couple of notes on the ground. 300 francs! It was unbelievable? Coincidence? Impossible... No, it was evident that we influenced destiny?" Where does the tendency to think that we can influence events when we witness the unbelievable comes from? Why do we create an illusion of magical power? What kind of interior could encourage magical thinking and how could it sooth mental distress? Through this book, Solenne Morigeaud investigates how magical thinking can inform interactive and innovative design for the home.