Julia Horner

As an interior design student, I am often considering the importance of our surroundings.  I find myself getting most excited about my career when I contemplate the associations I have formed with the spaces I have been in.  My childhood home still holds a vivid memory, allowing me to go back whenever I please.  Through the concrete remembrance of a space, I am able to recollect the events and milestones and associate them with a clear picture.  Because of this concrete imagery, much of my recollection of the past is rooted by the space or surroundings that I was in at the time.  The attachment we form to people is loosely mirrored in the relationship we form with a space.  While people are able to interact back, a space is refreshing in the sense that it can be a silent and effortless solace.  In my future work, I am hoping to integrate an independent study to understand the connection and influence a space has on cognition by taking what I have learned in my psychology courses and applying them.