MDW: Thinking Space — book launch and reading

Join author Leon van Schaik for a reading from his new book Thinking Space – a celebration of the art, poetry and philosophy of inhabitation, and its power to change our understanding of the world. 

When: 6pm Thursday 22 May 2025
Where: Bookshop by Uro, 5/30 Perry Street, Collingwood (Collingwood Yards)
Tickets: $5 - CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE - STRICTLY LIMITED – ticket price redeemable as a discount from book purchases

Thinking Space  explores how books, and book collecting, have framed van Schaik's lifelong research into spatial intelligence – the ways in which our past experiences in physical space shape our mental space, which in turn informs how we act in the world. 

A journey through the history of the author’s own library (a collection gathered and refined over decades of teaching and thinking about place, space and architecture), the book reveals some of his most prized texts, the often deeply personal relationships they represent, and their influence on him as conceptual touchstones.

About the speaker

Leon van Schaik AO, Emeritus Professor of Architecture (RMIT University) gardens and writes. Recent books include Doing, Seeing; Seeing, Doing (Uro Publications 2021), Kerstin Thompson Architects (Thames and Hudson 2021), and Suburbia Reimagined (with Nigel Bertram, Routledge 2018).