Spatial Thinking: visualising spatial thinking in architecture and neuroscience

Friday 12 February 2010, 10am-5pm
UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, Wates House, Room G02

Architecture &: Interdisciplinary Seminars
Spatial Thinking: visualising spatial thinking in architecture and neuroscience
Organisers: Peg Rawes, Kate Jeffery

The neuroscientific study of how space is constructed by the brain,and the concept of space as seen in architecture, offer some interesting correspondences. For both, the experience of space is a 'real' event for
the individual, yet there are many unanswered questions about how these experiences of space may be represented. How does the cognitive representation of space shape subjective experience in a built environment? How do cognitive and emotional perceptions of space intersect? How are neuroscientific and architectural understandings of space, time and memory linked?

Speakers:
Ruth Conroy Dalton (Lecturer in Architectural Morphology and Theory,
Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL)
Stephen Gage (Bartlett School of Architecture, Professor of Innovative Technology UCL)
Kate Jeffery (Professor, Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL)
Niall McLaughlin (Director, Niall McLaughlin Architects)
John O'Keefe (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)
Peg Rawes (Senior Lecturer, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)
Hugo Spiers (Wellcome Trust Advanced Training Fellow, UCL)

Morning and afternoon refreshments will be provided, and drinks following the seminar.

All welcome but booking is essential. Please contact a.araujo@ucl.ac.uk to reserve a place.