I don’t often discuss being on the road until I’m back and no longer worried about people robbing my empty how, but the home is filled with family while I’m away, so yeah.
I’m writing from the Amazon Spheres today and absolutely redefining my understanding of workspace. The Spheres are a crazy indoor rainforest (Amazon) concept where the entire space is clear domed and filled with plant life. It smells like heaven. It also changes my mindset dramatically. Between the running water and the green I feel safe, calm, alive, free, and especially creative. This is the kind of place that grows ideas and the kind of workspace that allows for a freedom of thought that often seems to be lacking in the cold grey of academia and business.
I want to find a way to live in these sort of environs. I want to be able to smell the flowers and think of worlds beyond these as I look at what is possible in our own reality.
this is going to be a fundamental part of how I conceive of climate fiction moving forward, because what they captured here argues what can be done and also argues if it should.
that being said, I am grateful for the introduction to the possible because it reframed the impossible immediately. Beyond the beauty it also made me think of the societal construction whereas office and work is normally meant to be about hierarchy, a workspace that lacks that formal hierarchy suggests how people may be able to function in another way professionally and may find the space to grow creativity within themselves within these Spheres.