#TheVoidProject 04: Valuing constraints w/Lisa Donoughe

How can limitations actually spur creativity?
Summary
How might the intentional choice to live abroad influence one’s relationship to their possessions? Along with opportunities come constraints — which can spark entirely new approaches. For example, sorting through what we own and deciding what to do with it needn’t be burdensome; it can be big fun.
About my guest
Lisa Donoughe is a brand expert and entrepreneur, a visionary, a communicator, and a true woman of the world dividing her time between homes in Berlin, New York City, and Portland, Oregon. She's a creator and a curator and a champion of fine food, art and culture. As one of Lisa’s clients describes it, “Lisa has her methods. Some of them are unconventional. She has a way of seeing the world in a different way.”
More on Lisa at https://www.lisadonoughe.com/
Main topics
1:21living in Berlin started as an experiment
2:35I love constraints
6:38three cities, three homes, three styles
9:00how Berlin’s apartments are different from those in the U.S.
13:20worst nightmare: brown moths
16:11fun re-evaluating everything in the house during pandemic lockdown
19:21new relationship to appliances and possessions

Podcast theme music
empty by Tea K Pea
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