Design Meets Science,
Shaping Spaces That Transform Mind and Body.
Advancements in neuroscience and psychology are transforming design, showing how our surroundings impact our minds and bodies. Scientists and designers are now collaborating to study how spaces affect behaviour and well-being—a field known as "neuroarchitecture," introduced by Dr. Fred Gage. This research is inspiring new design approaches focused on creating environments that enhance human experience and health.
We are witnessing a global revolution in how designers approach design and problem solving. This is mainly because radical advancements in neuroscience, psychology, technology and biology can now quite factually reveal the true impact that our surroundings have on our bodies and on our minds. We can now measure our exact neurological and biological responses to various architectural typologies in unprecedented ways.
With this said, design is no longer the sacred domain of designers only. Neuroscientists and psychologists are now increasingly teaming up with architects and designers to understand exactly how our environment impacts different types of thinking and influence behaviour, stimulate us positively and negatively, help us or harm us, heal us or makes us sick.
It is to these findings and others that Dr. Fred Gage, a senior neuroscientist at the Salk Institute and former president of the Society for Neuroscience, closely linked the two disciplines of neuroscience and architecture for example and posited the term Neuroarchitecture in 2003, a concept that is now gaining rapid momentum.
The more the results of these studies continue to confirm the significant degree to which design affects how we feel, how we act and how we behave, the more the industry is awakening to the need for the development of new design tools, teachings and methods that will help designers create more meaningful and responsible building environments.
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