Hey everyone,

We're hosting a Career Navigator session with alumni who previously took our course, with our speakers Alessio Grancini, SenioR AR Prototyper at MagicLeap, and our XR Bootcamp architect students (like Astha Kapila) to share their successful career pathways into VR/AR. This is great for Architects, Industrial Designers, CAD, 3D designers, Interior Designers, BIM / AEC, or a physical product designer curious about seamlessly transitioning into XR.

We've had so many professional architects go through XR Foundations and Prototyping Bootcamp and successfully graduated and broke into the XR industry afterward and our grads would love to share their experience!

Sign up for free: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/career-navigator-9-from-architect-to-xr-prototyper-tickets-672135785227?aff=reddit

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I’m starting my college classes in a week and need three ecopsychology books to read for class. Any recommendations?

I’m a social science PhD working in an ACE industry position. I’m looking to make connections with others who have a background in environmental psychology and ultimately might be interested in consulting or collaborating.

Does anyone have recommendations for books or articles on the relationship between physical displacement and psychology? By "physical displacement," I'm referring to any migration event from one place to another, especially in the sense of being displaced due to factors that are perceived to be beyond one's control.

hey all travelers and explorers of urban, wild, rural, and third spaces. we made an app for people to connect with places, tell stories, discover and write new and old local lore, and genuinely have fun with an iPhone, rather than just stare down at it!

We wanted to make a platform the encouraged discovery and provoke conversation and thoughts about shared spaces. If you want to DL it, here is the link! Please feel free to share it as well!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/folk-everyday-exploration/id1441436152

Feedback encouraged, this a new thing, and its completely open, so we want to build it with patrons in mind.

Sincerely,

the Folk team

www.folkapp.co

I support a VP who oversees 300 people in our business division. I am a strategist who helps with internal and external initiatives, but also have the big role of helping him keep things on his radar and get stuff knocked off the to do list. He loves mind mapping and cannot stand the linear approach to task lists. What suggestions or options might you recommend for platforms that can provide success, that are relatively user intuitive/friendly for someone like me who is new to mapping?

So, I was creating PAO system for cards and after hard imaginary work managed to come up only with 38/52 objects actions and persons. Could you please tell me some of yours examples of PAO or suggest helpful sites.

"The operation of a peer-matching network would be simple. The user would identify himself by name and address and describe the activity for which he sought a peer. A computer would send him back the names and addresses of all those who had inserted the same description. It is amazing that such a simple utility has never been used on a broad scale for publicly valued activity."
Ivan Illich, 1971

What is this?
This is a long-term Skype reading group about sociology of space. We are going to discuss The Texts (sic!) of Georg Simmel, Henri Lefebvre, Pierre Bourdieu, Manuel Castells, Bruno Latur, John Law. Moreover, we have special rules of reading(see below). There is no need for you to have a background in the field, just your desire (even longing) to read texts and follow the rules.

What is sociology of space?
The "sociology" of space examines the social and material constitution of spaces. It is concerned with understanding the social practices, institutional forces, and material complexity of how humans and spaces interact. (Wikipedia)

Who am I?
I'm not a teacher/ professor of sociology. I'm going to do a master's degree and interested (hope as you) in a field -- sociology of space. I've done reading groups before, but only in my native language. English is my second language.

Reading list
(Thank You, Dr Scott Shaffer, for making syllabus of your course available online)

Introduction

• Herbert Gans, “The Sociology of Space: A Use-Centered View”
• Thomas F Gieryn, “A Space for Place in Sociology”
• Hilary Powell, “Recycling Junkspace: finding space of ‘Playtime’ in the city”

The Spaces of Sociality: Simmel and the Nature of Social Relations

• Georg Simmel, “The Sociology of Sociability”
• Georg Simmel, “The Sociology of Space”
• Georg Simmel, “Bridge and Door”
• Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life”

Producing Space I: Lefebvre and the Concept of “Social Space”

• Henri Lefebvre, “Social Space”
• Henri Lefebvre, “Space: Social Product and Use Value”
• Henri Lefebvre, “Space and the Mode of Production”

Spatial Production: Bourdieu and the Production of Agents and the Social

• Pierre Bourdieu, “Structures and the Habitus”
• Pierre Bourdieu, “The Social Space and the Genesis of Groups”
• Pierre Bourdieu, “The Social Space and Its Transformations”

The reading list is not mandatory to follow, let's discuss it freely. However, the reading rules are quite mandatory.

The reading rules

1. The main algorithm of discussion is simple – hunting for problem points inside The Text – picking one problem/ direction of problematisation – attempt to solve this problem using resources of The Text.

2. Problem point – unclarity/ contradiction/ paradox/ hard question. Trivial problems, that can be easily resolved with the help of The Text, should be rejected.

3. Highlighting the problem points, interpretation, argumentation – each action during the talk should be based on The Text, with pointing the page number and a sentence/ sentences. Generally, associations by The Text cannot be accepted despite their productivity.

4. Not allowed, during the process of solving a problem (after picking one), put forward other problems (not until resolve the first one OR acknowledge that you cannot resolve it with the help of The Text)

5. Not allowed to rely on other texts or associations, not related to The Text. Associations connected with The Text, should be subjected to the process of finding/ solving a problem, otherwise they should be rejected.

6. All participants should have one version/ edition of The Text – it eases the process of collaboration and citation.

7. Wherever possible, try to justify the picking of a problem and benefits from your solution, you can’t just say “This place is obscure/ unclear” and that’s all. Try to explain why it’s obscure, why this unclarity is problematic for the logic/logics of The Text, and what we can do to solve it.

8. Always where possible try to find more than 1 solution for 1 problem, practice to suggest different interpretations, but based on The Text.

9. During the discussion there should be a moderator, who will rigidly monitor following the rules and keep in mind/ document the arguments, to recall them if necessary (in case of dead end; if wished to change the problematic point; acknowledge that it cannot be resolved with the help of The Text)

Freedom from appealing to the intertext, allowing to trace steps, and enables for interpreters to speak out on equal ground, without strong background and specialization.

PM me if you want to join us or just leave a comment. We are going to gather once per 2 weeks at the weekends.

hey guys!

writing a paper on how the internet is a geographic space for the class (yes I understand that it is a rather generous definition of geography but humor me). do you know of any essays or thinkers that write about the internet as a geographic space? i'm specifically using a black feminist lens to explore how broad social projects like racism/colonialism affect internet spaces. any thoughts? thank you!

Just found this sub, curious if anyone reads it. If you do, I am curious if anyone uses memory palace techniques to memorize things as they happen, for instance if you are reading a book or watching a show. I had a history of sitting down and memorizing large quantities of information in school with sort of a memory palace/spatial technique, however when I don't have that information written out and organized, or I am unfamiliar with the location it happened in, I don't remember it at all.

For instance Game of Thrones, I will watch it, pay attention, enjoy it, but recalling the things that happened without imagining/remembering the EXACT scene/orientation/mood/color palette, etc. I will completely forget (there's a lot to remember scene to scene!). I suppose I used the technique in context without transporting it to a place I could go into later? Thoughts?