{"product_id":"designing-womens-lives-transforming-place-and-self-9781954081116","title":"Designing-Women's Lives: Transforming Place and Self","description":"\u003cb\u003eDesigning Women's Lives calls for a place-making revolution based on women's culturally nurtured \"feeling\" sensibility. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWomen too often have had to repress that sensibility in order to become designers. Now, rather than struggle to fit-in, women can break new ground by using Design Psychology as the foundation for creating emotionally satisfying place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo encourage such a heart\/mind shift, the author discusses how she took architecture Gold Medalist Denise Scott Brown and interior design legend Margo Grant Walsh through a series of Design Psychology exercises. The process revealed ways these renowned women unconsciously embedded their heroic struggles as minority females in their designs: Grant Walsh's journey from her Chippewa childhood home with only one green couch to her plush NYC residence reflected her embrace of her Native American + designing-woman's identity. Scott Brown grew up in a more privileged South African household, yet she translated the oppression she witnessed during Apartheid and the bias she experienced as a Jewish woman into the inclusive approach to architecture that made her famous. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterweaving such designing-women's stories, feminist design thinking and her personal vignettes, the author inspires readers to \"design from within\" their personal psychology as a form of personal liberation. Project case studies further demonstrate how Design Psychology helped women create a nurturing--even transformative--home during life-passages such as partnering or grieving. Such case studies provide inspiring examples of how color, shape, texture, space layout, and special objects can be catalysts for such personal evolution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeatures interviews with Julia Morgan, Margo Grant Walsh, Denise Scott Brown, Gloria Steinem, and Esther Sternberg.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsrael, Toby:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Toby Israel, Ph.D., is the founder of Design Psychology, a field that's gained international attention in the LA, NY and Financial Times, CBS Sunday Morning, and NPR's \"Talk of the Nation.\" Trained as an environmental psychologist, she is a multi-disciplinary design, psychology, arts, and education professional who applies scholarship to the \"real-world\" practice of place-making.","brand":"Oro Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50561385103634,"sku":"9781954081116","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e8581064-ee44-4370-8de0-02702d7511a4.jpg?v=1731846563","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/designing-womens-lives-transforming-place-and-self-9781954081116","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}