Conscious Cities - Neuroscience and Architecture Conference
Tuesday, Mar 1, 20169 AM - 6 PMBST
| Arup, 13 Fitzroy Street
London, GBRelated
Museum of Architecture is pleased to announce the keynote speaker for Conscious Cities, a one-day conference exploring the relationship between architecture and neuroscience. Prof. Carlo Ratti, Director of MIT SENSEable City Lab, will discuss projects and approaches that can creatively intervene and investigate the interface between people, technologies and the city.
Conscious Cities conference
Date: 01 March 2016
Time: 9.00AM - 6.00PM
Location: Arup, 13 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BQ
The purpose of Conscious Cities is to instigate a discussion about how human behaviour and space relate to each other, as well as to understand the economic impact of their interaction. As the collision of technology with the millennial mindset of knowledge exchange and collaboration is changing the way we work and live, architects, planners, developers and policy-makers need to respond to the urgency for cities to meet these new needs by creating the right infrastructure to support growth. The last twenty years have seen leaps in neuroscience, which is giving us an understanding of how our interaction with the environment contributes to our cognitive mechanisms, influences our behaviour and moulds our wellbeing. Current research in digital technologies, on the other hand, has given us the intelligence and tools to create spaces that are sentient, fit for purpose and conscious.
Through the conference, built environment professionals will benefit from discoveries in neuroscience which can guide them in developing places and cities that are conscious of human biological needs and desires. Conscious Cities, organised in partnership with THECUBE, is part of MoA's year-long Health, Wellbeing and Architecture programming.
Keynote: Prof. Carlo Ratti, Director, MIT SENSEable City Lab
Other speakers
Philip Tidd, Consulting Practice Area Leader, Principal, Gensler
Dr. Jon Goodbun, Senior Lecturer in Architecture, University of Westminster
Panos Mavros, researcher on Emotions in Urban Behaviour, UCL
Fiona Elizabeth Zisch, neuroscientist at Spatial Cognition Group, UCL
Itai Palti, architect and author, “A Manifesto for Conscious Cities”
Dr. Hugo Spiers, neuroscientist and Head of Spiers Lab at UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience
Ruairi Glynn, Director, Interactive Architecture Lab, Bartlett, UCL
Neil Davidson, Director, J & L Gibbons Landscape Architecture & Urban Design and co-author, Urban Minds project
Juliette Morgan, Partner, Cushman & Wakefield and Head of Property, Tech City UK
Josef Hargrave, Associate, Arup Foresight Group
Dr. Harriet Harriss, Research Lead and Senior Tutor in Architecture and Interiors, Royal College of Art
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