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Alisan Atvur

I support growth by serving creative professionals

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Influences

STAGE

Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
David Mamet's Glengarry Glenn Ross
Del Close

SCREEN

Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours Trilogy
Otmar Guttmann's Pingu
Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris
Auguste and Louis Lumière's Films
Christopher Nolan's Inception
Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away

Music

Chet Baker
Johan Johannson
Portishead
Sigur Ros

Science

Giordano Bruno
Dr. Rollo May
Dr. Albert Ellis
Dr. Jacqueline Mattis
Dr. Shoma Morita (森田正馬)

Poetry

Sharon Olds
Carl Dennis
Stephen Dunn
Natasha Tretheway
Anna Akhmatova (Анна Ахматова)
Ted Kooser
Mark Strand
Matthew Buckley Smith

Fiction

Ron Rash
Amy Hempel
George Saunders
Jon Stewart
Flannery O'Connor

Art

Andreas Gursky
Olafur Eliasson
Stanley Donwood
Edvard Munch

Design Non-Fiction

Christopher Alexander
David Sherwin
Brenda Laurel
Nathan Shedroff
Buckminster Fuller

Philosophy

Socrates
Walter Benjamin
Martin Buber
Pema Chödrön

Alisan Atvur is a design researcher, facilitator, and keynote speaker.