Analysing Spaces – what does your bookshelf say about you?!

Think that nonverbal signaling via design is silly? Read Tim Dowling’s 2024 article in The Guardian, “Shelf-Absorbed: Eight Ways to Arrange Your Bookshelves – And What They Say About You” (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/17/shelf-absorbed-nine-ways-to-arrange-your-bookshelves-and-what-they-say-about-you). Dowling’s work does not seem science-based, but it does shed light on something all of us are doing all the time, trying to figure out who other people really are, in part based on what spaces they have some control over look, etc., like. We do this at home,…