UPCOMING BOOK
The Designers Guide to Psychedelics
By Alexandra Plesner
inspiration
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
position
the idea
From history to contemporary, psychedelics have always had a complex relationship with creativity. But maybe The most urgent design challenge of our time isn't aesthetic or technological. It's our estrangement from nature — and from each other. Psychedelics might offer a different path of how we create: dissolving the boundary between self and the living world, cultivating a felt sense of connectedness that could change what we build, how and why.
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