29/09/2026
“Resistance is an essential part of life.”
Introducing ‘Making Space’ - Episode 004 with architect, designer, artist and father Alexis Dornier.
For Alexis, resistance has become part of the practice.
From learning to receive criticism as a young architecture student, to navigating failure, responsibility and fatherhood, he reflects on the discomfort we so often try to remove from our lives - and what happens when we choose to invite it in instead.
Criticism taught him how to separate what is useful from what isn’t. Failure became something to reframe rather than fear. And fatherhood brought a new kind of discomfort - responsibility, uncertainty, love and doubt - that asked him to look inward again.
We spend so much of life trying to optimize discomfort out of the equation.
Alexis offers another possibility: invite it in.
Because struggle shapes us. Resistance creates growth. And sometimes making space within means accepting that fear, sadness, doubt and difficulty belong there too.
An exploration of resistance, acceptance and the inner space that becomes available when we stop trying to optimize discomfort out of being human.
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