The wandering brain

What is attachment?

Whether of places or people, the business of attachment is messy, complicated and often amusing

Oct 7 • 

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September 2025

Places of My Heart 3: Attachment to Country

Looking for my homeland

Sep 22 • 

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Places of my Heart 2: Negative space

Places as bad lovers

Sep 3 • 

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August 2025

Places of My Heart 1. First places

Reflections on my early places and some foolhardy experiments of my past

Aug 19 • 

Colin Ellard

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Places of my heart

Falling in love with place attachment

Aug 6 • 

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March 2025

November 2024

Place attachment, metaphor and memory

Our attachment to places depends on both our senses and our histories

Nov 29, 2024 • 

Colin Ellard

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September 2024

Not entirely accidental

Stories about time, space, babies, synchrony, love and urban design

Sep 6, 2024 • 

Colin Ellard

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June 2024

Psychology, neuroscience, and the housing crisis

Place attachment in our most intimate spaces

Jun 25, 2024 • 

Colin Ellard

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July 2023

WFH: WTF?

Can we design workplaces worth going to?

Jul 17, 2023 • 

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February 2023

Parallax, love, and architecture

How cities feel about you

Feb 2, 2023 • 

Colin Ellard

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October 2022

Biodiversity, microbiomes and the psychology of restoration

I’ve just returned from my first international travel in a long time after visiting a really great design firm in Ohio, where I talked about…

Oct 2, 2022 • 

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