Is there too much choice, too much information,too much noise, over regulation and excess in contemporary urban living?
Do we need zones of non-consumption: facilities or prostheses to survive everyday life?
Showing posts with label over-stimulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label over-stimulation. Show all posts
If you take the words and the branding out of the hight street is it less demanding? Might this be the same for people who speak another language or cannot read? Are we so familiar with the brands we can tell what they are just by the colour combinations?
High streets bombard us with information. A combination of stimuli: verbal, colour, branding. Naturally, we can filter out as much as we choose. But perhaps this take some effort. Is it any accident that travel agents choose to be located in especially hectic city centre streets? Offering us an escape route?
