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BètaBreak: Spaces that Shape Us - Insights from Neuroscience and Architecture

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BètaBreak: Spaces that Shape Us - Insights from Neuroscience and Architecture

Last modified on 02-05-2025 12:24
Spaces can eventually be manipulated by its inhabitants, but is there more to be said on how places can also influence humans in return?
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14-05-2025 12:00
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14-05-2025 13:30
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SP904, Main hall

Virtually any action we can imagine could have a spatial coordinate. Yet when we think of space, it’s mainly a steady image which comes to mind either a landscape or an interior, they are static visions of a solid reality. There’s the vibrantly active life and the physical structures that frame it and interact with it. 

For this edition, we decided to question the dialogue between neuroscience and architecture, tackling human understanding of space and its repercussions on behaviour, cognition and well-being. We will offer some frameworks to conceptualise these relationship and practical insights on the interventions and challenges that emerge when psychology and technology interact.