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This groundbreaking new book contains an astonishing and ultimately empowering message – that people and places are ‘co-creative.’ Or, to put it another way, author Michael Warden suggests that our environment is creating us, even as we are creating it.
Although the idea that people and places affect each other may not be entirely new, Design Energetics: The Ancient Pulse of Feng Shui in the Modern World is unique in revealing precisely how we can change the spaces we live in and improve our lives and communities.
It’s a book that brings together Michael Warden’s extensive, multi-disciplinary research exploring both scientific and spiritual perspectives for the concept. He begins in the dawn of history, moves through the practice of authentic Chinese Feng Shui, then on to the work of contemporary architects, psychologists, the new sciences of systems theory and much more.
As a synthesis of old and new perspectives begins to emerge, Design Energetics unveils a new vision for contemporary architecture and design. This vision is bound to set a trend for energetic, harmonious, dynamic and compassionate buildings of the future; buildings able to inspire health, happiness, prosperity, and personal and social wellbeing.
Featuring lavish photographs and astonishing case studies, Design Energetics is essential reading for anyone who seeks an understanding of how we are affected by our everyday environment and the potential our surroundings have to transform our lives.
Publisher: Meridian. Full colour, Hardcover, 370 pages (approx. 70,000 words) Over 120 photographs and illustrations
Although the idea that people and places affect each other may not be entirely new, Design Energetics: The Ancient Pulse of Feng Shui in the Modern World is unique in revealing precisely how we can change the spaces we live in and improve our lives and communities.
It’s a book that brings together Michael Warden’s extensive, multi-disciplinary research exploring both scientific and spiritual perspectives for the concept. He begins in the dawn of history, moves through the practice of authentic Chinese Feng Shui, then on to the work of contemporary architects, psychologists, the new sciences of systems theory and much more.
As a synthesis of old and new perspectives begins to emerge, Design Energetics unveils a new vision for contemporary architecture and design. This vision is bound to set a trend for energetic, harmonious, dynamic and compassionate buildings of the future; buildings able to inspire health, happiness, prosperity, and personal and social wellbeing.
Featuring lavish photographs and astonishing case studies, Design Energetics is essential reading for anyone who seeks an understanding of how we are affected by our everyday environment and the potential our surroundings have to transform our lives.
Publisher: Meridian. Full colour, Hardcover, 370 pages (approx. 70,000 words) Over 120 photographs and illustrations
“A really important contribution to de-mystifying practical spiritual traditions such as feng shui and integrating them with the design task of creating buildings and human environments that are alive and whole. Distils the essence of a lifetime searching connections between architecture and the forces of the living world often unseen to us”.
Sim Van der Ryn, Emeritus Professor of Architecture and author of “Ecological Design”
Sim Van der Ryn, Emeritus Professor of Architecture and author of “Ecological Design”