talkPOPc Participant Amanda converses with Resident Philosopher Dr. Martin Nitsche, Chair of the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague about how art creates a physical and psychic space at our summer public philosophy event in Bryant Park.

Timestamps:

• 00:10: Introductions, level setting
• 01:40: Art preferences, visual art, architecture and an eye for design
• 03:00: Importance of design and creation of spaces. With light comes energy 
• 04:40: Music over television. Impacts on mood, evocative of time, place and people
• 06:10: Does design impact thought and purpose?
• 07:50: Visual and musical create environments. It's not just the living room that's full of art. The art creates the space
• 09:45: The immersion factor between visual and musical and how they affect your position
• 11:10: Stained glass, the play of light and color's impact on beauty. Paintings connected to light
• 13:55: Concrete jungle of New York. More green than you'd imagine. Public works of art accessible to the people as opposed to the private skyscrapers
• 16:10: Summer, light, community and immersion/engagement in the world
• 18:20: Garden as cognition? Landscape, thought, design and the creation of rooms/spaces
• 22:00: Conclusion and parting thoughts

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