Architect manque: Michael Sandle / Neil Spiller. Mind in life in architecture: a conversation with architectural historian Alberto Perez-Gomez / Ian Ritchie -- Stage left, stage right-the heavens & hell: embodied meaning & memory in performance / Michael Boyd -- Resonant bodies in immersive space / Sarah Robinson -- Species of space / Sergei Gepshtein -- Designing for the multisensory mind / Charles Spence -- Losing myself: designing for people with dementia / Niall McLaughlin -- Mind landscapes: navigation, habitat and imagination / James Corner -- Light regulation of circadian rhythms: fact and fiction and design implications / Russell G. Foster -- Disembodied worlds-body, brain and architecture in the digital age: a conversation with psychobiologist Vittorio Gallese / Ian Ritchie -- News from nowhere: a biological reading / Harry Francis Mallgrave -- Museums of the embodied mind: sensory engagement with artworks and architecture / Barry C. Smith -- Neuroscience does design: what the brain's architecture can teach architects / Danbee Kim and Adam R. Kampff -- Visual neuroscience for architecture: seeking a new evidence-based approach to design / Thomas D. Albright, Sergei Gepshtein and Eduardo Macagno -- Plant consciousness: towards an architecture of expanded kinship / Andrew Todd -- Wicked neuroarchitecture: reciprocity, shapeshifting problems and a case for embodied knowledge / Fiona Zisch -- Architect manque: Michael Sandle / Neil Spiller.
Summary:
Neuroscientific research techniques enable us to record the way we perceive and orientate our bodies in space, and the cognitive and behavioural impacts of spatial and architectural design. As a result, we are beginning to understand not only how, but why we respond in certain physiological and emotional ways to our environment. Understanding that architecture has more than a utilitarian or aesthetic function, and how it interacts with all our senses, has the potential to transform the ways we design and engineer architecture, cities, objects and our environment. The relatively new pan-disciplinary field of neuroarchitecture endeavors to integrate these insights with architectural practice. Our genes are responsible for the design of our brains and our brains drive our behaviour. However, the field of epigenetics has revealed that social and environmental factors can modulate gene expression in ways that are heritable, altering the structure of our brains and consequently our behaviour and that of our children, and so our societies. In this sense, neuroscientific research is allowing us to finally lay to rest Descartian mind-body dualism by revealing the complexities, abiguities and subtle synergies of the human mind, senses, emotions and physiology in relation to our environment.
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