Lectures on Tap - "Why We Doomscroll: Disconnection & Bad City Design"

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📚 Lecture: "Why We Doomscroll: Disconnection & Bad City Design"

🎤 Speaker: Dr. Tayana Panova

Join us for an enlightening evening with Dr. Tayana Panova as she explores the complex relationship many people have with their smartphones. While society often labels this relationship as addiction, Dr. Panova encourages us to look beyond the devices and consider the deeper motivations driving this behavior.

What is it about our urban environments that leaves us seeking fulfillment through our screens? In this thought-provoking lecture, she will discuss how our built environments often fail to meet our fundamental human needs, leading to increased reliance on our smartphones for connection and engagement.

Dr. Tayana Panova is a doctor of psychology and a published researcher, known for her influential paper "Is Smartphone Addiction Really an Addiction?" which has popularized the term "problematic smartphone use." As a leading voice at the intersection of psychology and urban design, she co-hosts the podcast The Perfect City and works with initiatives promoting healthy urban spaces.

Don’t miss this opportunity to rethink our relationship with technology and the environments we navigate!

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Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.

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