Cover graphic for Talking Home Renovations Episode 49, "Maximizing Creativity". The background image is a colorful, modern home, with a desk looking out over a central courtyard.

In this episode I speak with architect Donald Rattner about his research into how our environment impacts our creativity. Who doesn’t want to be more creative, as creative as possible? His book My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation contains 48 easy-to-implement tips for maximizing creativity in your space. We talk about a few of these tips and more.

Book cover for "My Creative Space". The background image is a colorful, modern home, with a desk looking out over a central courtyard.

About our guest:

Architect Donald M. Rattner helps individuals and organizations maximize creativity by drawing on scientific research in design psychology. His most recent book is “My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation, 48 Science-based Techniques,” which has won four awards and been ranked an Amazon bestseller.

Educator and practitioner as well as author, he has taught at the University of Illinois, New York University, and Parsons School of Design. Speaking venues include the Creative Problem Solving Institute, Creative Mornings, bookstores, webinars, and corporate events. His work has been featured on CNN, in such publications as The New York Times, Architectural Digest, and Better Humans, and on numerous podcasts. Rattner holds a Bachelor’s from Columbia and a Masters of Architecture from Princeton.

My Creative Space is available on Amazon and other major online booksellers.

Follow Donald on:

LinkedIn

Instagram @donaldrattnerarchitect

Facebook @donaldrattneraia

A professional headshot of Donald Rattner, a light-skinned man with balding brown hair and a close-cropped brown-and-gray beard. He is wearing a suit and tie, and looking warmly at the camera.