Archinect - Features2024-11-24T02:11:27-05:00https://archinect.com/features/article/150185910/towards-neuro-spatial-diversity-thoughts-on-the-relationship-between-architecture-and-the-patterns-of-the-mind
Towards Neuro-Spatial Diversity: Thoughts on the Relationship Between Architecture and the Patterns of the Mind Saba Salekfard2020-03-15T13:40:00-04:00>2020-03-15T13:40:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/81/81502904ab73e76ca86865f1ac4b9dc6.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>“Too proper for the black kids, too black for the Mexicans… what’s normal anyway…” opines mixed-race, LA-born R&B artist Miguel on his 2015 track, “What’s Normal Anyway.” The artist’s self-identified ethnic identity quandary serves to mirror our understanding of the gradated nature of mental health conditions. Mild encounters with anxiety, obsession, and mania, amongst other symptomatic states, are a fundamental part of the human experience. In the classical model of mental health disorders, it is only when these symptoms are abnormally heightened and chronic enough to cause consistent distress that the shift from ‘normal’ to ‘disordered’ occurs. Subjectivity is unavoidable in this act of categorization.</p>