The 3 Things Every Room You Live In Must Have to Be Okay | Leidy Klotz
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How should we rethink “functional” when deciding if a room works for us?
So much of us think the biggest question about a room is whether it works. Does the desk fit? Does the light turn on? Is there enough storage? It turns out that's not even close to the real question when we think about the spaces we inhabit. And getting it wrong might be why your home office has felt just subtly off for years without you knowing why and maybe why your entire home feels the same. In this conversation, you'll discover the three psychological needs that every space you inhabit is either feeding or starving. While the open office debacle and today's return to office fights are the exact same potential mistake, you'll hear about how an architecture student walked past a six-story landmark building for six years and never once saw it and why.
We'll talk about a two-minute practice that can shift your entire nervous system using nothing but a parking garage. and how the space that you build can become one of the ways that you carry all of the things that you've been through in your life with you, the good, the bad, and the ones that you really remember in the right way. Our guide is acclaimed behavioral scientist and University of Virginia engineering professor, Lydie Klotz, whose research has appeared in nature and science and so many other places. So excited to share this conversation with you. I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project. We'll jump right in after this short break.
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I have spent a lot of time thinking about my relationship between place and how it affects me on so many different levels, emotionally, psychologically, cognitively, physically, health-wise. We are in actually geographically the place that we're in right now in no small part because of how it makes me feel. and how it makes my wife feel and just the, you know, it's something that I think is one of those decisions that we tend to never actually make and just default into.
It was like the places that I'm happy are not necessarily the predictable ones, right? And there's places that make me feel good are not necessarily the predictable ones. You could go into like a super opulent, uh, mansion and that might make me feel really uncomfortable, even though, you know, it might make somebody else feel great. Or, you know, the place that I, one of my favorite places in the world is just a screened porch, any screened porch. And I think it traces back. I mean, it's, there's the outdoor, but it's also like, there's this it brings back memories of my grandmother and she would always talk to me about, we, she had a cabin on a Lake in New Hampshire and she would always talk to me about the Red Sox and the Celtics and, and bring tea out.
And, you know, it's just now I like that space for that reason. So I guess just kind of noticing that the, there was more to how you, how you experienced the space than just kind of the physical pieces of it.
Yeah, I think when so many of us think about our spaces, whether it's our home or office, leisure, oftentimes the first thing that comes to mind is, is it functional? Like, is the space designed for the thing it's meant to do? And that's what we focus on. Does it have the features and the bells and the whistles? And we're like, okay, I'm putting together my office space. Yeah. Does it have a desk?
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