Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Designing In Time
Recently, lots of us have been having trouble with time. It’s a challenge to keep track of whether something happened last week or two weeks ago and, sometimes, whether the event in question was yesterday or an hour ago. It’s generally not that we forget things entirely, just when it was they happened. As Alex Williams writes in The New York Times (“The Year of Blur,” October 31, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/style/the-year-of-blur.html), “You’re not alone if you feel that 2020, perhaps the most dramatic and memorable year of our lifetimes . . . seems shuffled and disordered, like a giant blur. . . .a year so momentous also feels, in a way, as if nothing happened at all. It’s not entirely an illusion. Without the usual work mixers, festive holiday celebrations, far-flung vacations or casual dinners that typically mark and divide the calendar, the brain has a harder time processing and cataloging …
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