The Geography of the Room – how position, orientation etc. impacts conversations

The other people in line were all facing the bar head-on, their backs to the guests behind them. Brandon’s open orientation afforded him the chance to exchange non-verbal overtures with people, like George, who entered the space immediately surrounding him. He uses the term triangulation to describe “that characteristic of a public space that can bring people together, strangers.

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