These days we may be more accurately described digital flaneurs, disconnected from our bodies without conscious thought. Andy Field guides us through a series of perfectly ordinary situations (going to the cinema, dancing in a club, walking in a park) and invites us to reflect on the hidden wonders of each moment shared with friends, family and even strangers.

A playful, analytical, informed, and poetic exploration of the delight and transformative power of real-life encounters. In a post-covid world where articles on loneliness and social media's distorted mirror proliferate, we still encounter difficulties or problems that are interruptions to our own desires (p.I liked the idea behind the book, but I feel like it could have been cut in half and you still would have gotten the same idea that the author was trying to get across. Haughty nightclubs, community parks, backs of car seats and movie theaters give us physical space to relate differently, and be different. Very cute concept, and I'm a big advocate for in-person encounters, but the execution wasn't it for me. Rather than being a long book just divided into continuing chapters, this is split into standalone essays that give you the opportunity to read, reflect, and put it down for a bit. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

You never know what someone else is going through, which could be a lot worse than how you think your bad day is progressing. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Encounterism is not a book about architecture, it is a book is about everyday joy; which for me acutely manifests itself in the everyday joy of being an architect. If recent trends in bad behavior are any indication, we may also have yet to relearn the skill set of coexistence — like how not to throw hard objects at musicians during their live shows, even if it makes for eye-grabbing video.It allows him to reminisce on the original joys and behaviour patterns of past decades (and millenia) and mix them with the new post-internet, post-pandemic age we live in. We collaborate with authors across all adult fiction genres, and also handle children’s books, young adult and cross-over fiction. Encounterism" is a quirky but accurate way to describe the regular moments of friction that permeates our lived experience.

A rousing reminder that our cities, our residential and work places, must still allow for the possibility of spontaneity and shared, in-person joy. From the history of the haircut to the mystery of The Jetsons, Andy Field is the freshest, most down-to-earth, most constantly surprising (and endearing) explorer of urban life I've read in a while. To be clear, Field is not writing as some man-child, he is however an adult who hasn’t been worn down by the repetition and responsibilities of adulthood. The author highlights how our simple interactions with people can help to shift our focus, and others', toward a more insightful understanding of the world and our place within it. However I found myself skimming toward the end of each section as it felt like a repeat of what he just said, like he was trying to reach a certain word count.

I am definitely an introvert and would be quite content to sit at home by myself, but I still found a lot of the author's words to ring true.