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    Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design

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SCIENTIFIC RESPONSIBLE
Davide Ruzzon
COORDINATOR
Roberto Fulciniti
BOARD
Roberta Albiero, Alain Berthoz, Renato Bocchi, Harry Mallgrave, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto Perez-Gomez, Sarah Robinson, Giovanni Vecchiato
TUTOR
Andréa de Paiva, Richard Jedon, Clarissa Machado, Natalia Olszewska, Antonio Sorrentino.



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DAVIDE RUZZON

Architect NAAD Director
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Master NAAD-ALAIN BERTHOZ

ALAIN BERTHOZ

Neuroscientist C.d.F Paris
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RENATO BOCCHI

Architect IUAV Venezia
naad master-h.mallgrave

HARRY MALLGRAVE

Architect IIT Chicago
naad master-j.pallasmaa

JUHANI PALLASMAA

Architect Helsinki UNI
naad master-A. Perez-Gomez

ALBERTO PEREZ-GOMEZ

Architect McGill UNI
naad master-S.Robinson

SARAH ROBINSON

Architect and Philosopher
Master NAAD-Giovanni Vecchiato

GIOVANNI VECCHIATO

Neuroscientist Parma UNI
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master NAAD-ALESSANDRO ADAMO

ALESSANDRO ADAMO

Architect DEWG L22
M.Arbib-ANFA CA Master NAAD

MICHAEL A.ARBIB

Neuroscientist Southern UNI
master NAAD-G.Ascione

GIUSEPPINA ASCIONE

Architect
master PIETRO AVANZINI

PIETRO AVANZINI

Neuroscientist Parma UNI
master ANNA BARBARA

ANNA BARBARA

Politecnico MI
Master NAAD-Bellini Eva

EVA BELLINI

ASST SS Paolo e Carlo MI
Master NAAD-Tatiana Berger

TATIANA BERGER

Architect and Professor
Master NAAD-IUAV-ERIKA BORELLA

ERIKA BORELLA

Psychologist Uni-Padova
Master NAAD-Elena Borra

ELENA BORRA

Neuroscientist Parma UNI
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Master NAAD IUAV-BILL BROWING

BILL BROWNING

Biophilic Designer Terrapin BG
Master NAAD-Isabella Bower

ISABELLA BOWER

Deakin University
Master NAAD-Burdese

CESARE BURDESE

Architect
Master NAAD-ANDREA CACACI

ANDREA CACACI

Architect
Master NAAD-Cnepa

ELISABETTA CANEPA

Architect Genova
Master NAAD-FAUSTO CARUANA

FAUSTO CARUANA

Neuroscientist Parma UNI
Master NAAD-GIOVANNA COLOMBETTI

GIOVANNA COLOMBETTI

Philosopher Exeter UNI UK
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Master NAAD-BOB CONDIA

BOB CONDIA

Designer Kansas State UNI
Master NAAD-MASSIMILIANO CONDOTTA<

MASSIMILIANO CONDOTTA

Professor IUAV
Master NAAD-Antonio damasio

ANTONIO DAMASIO

Neuroscientist USC CA
Master NAAD-CINZIA DI DIO

CINZIA DI DIO

Psychologist La Cattolica MI
Master NAAD-Eve Edelstein

EVE EDELSTEIN

Clinicians for Design
Master NAAD-Colin Ellard

COLIN ELLARD

Neuroscientist Waterloo UNI
master NAAD MADDALENA FABBRI DESTRO

MADDALENA F.DESTRO

Neuroscientist Parma UNI
master NAAD Melissa M. Farling

MELISSA M. FARLING

Principal MultiStudio
master NAAD IUAV TYE FARROW

TYE FARROW

Architect, Farrow Partners
Master NAAD-Shaun Gallagher

SHAUN GALLAGHER

Philosopher-Memphis Uni
Master NAAD-Vittorio Gallese

VITTORIO GALLESE

Neuroscientist Parma UNI
Master NAAD-SERGEI GEPSHTEIN

SERGEI GEPSHTEIN

Neuroscientist Salk Institute
Master NAAD-IUAV BERNARDO GOGNA

BERNARDO GOGNA

Architect, Aviation AECOM
Master NAAD-Sarah Williams Goldhagen

SARAH W. GOLDHAGEN

Architect Scholar NW
Master NAAD-TONINO GRIFFERO

TONINO GRIFFERO

Philosopher Tor Vergata UNI
Master NAAD-Mark A. Hewitt

MARK A. HEWITT

Architect, Historian
naad master-Tim Ingold

TIM INGOLD

Anthropologist Aberdeen UNI
naad master-Kate Jeffery

KATE JEFFERY

Neuroscientist
naad master-Andrea Jelić

ANDREA JELIC

Architect Aalborg UNI DK
naad master-IUAV ANDREAS KIPAR

ANDREAS KIPAR

Architect, LAND founder
naad master-IUAV DAVID KIRSH

DAVID KIRSH

Neuroscientist, ANFA Pr.
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naad master-SUSAN H. MAGSAMEN

SUSAN H. MAGSAMEN

Arts+Mind Lab New York
naad master-MARCO MAIOCCHI

MARCO MAIOCCHI

Professor POLIMI
naad master-Aram Megighian

ARAM MEGIGHIAN

Neuroscientist Uni PD
naad master-IUAV ALESSANDRA MICALIZZI

ALESSANDRA MICALIZZI

Psychologist PhD MI
Master NAAD-Upali Nanda

UPALI NANDA

Director Research HKS
Master NAAD-Olszewska

NATALIA OLSZEWSKA

Neuroscientist
Master NAAD-Itai Palti

ITAI PALTI

Architect HUME
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Master NAAD-Itai Palti

SILVIA PANZAVOLTA

Psychologist INDIRE MIUR
naad master-Isabella Pasqualini

ISABELLA PASQUALINI

Architect EPF Lausanne
naad master-IUAV ALAN PENN

ALAN PENN

Architect, Bartlett UCL
naad master-GABRIELLA PRAVETTONI

GABRIELLA PRAVETTONI

Psychologist UNI MI
naad master-Tiziana Proietti

TIZIANA PROIETTI

Architect Gibbs College US
naad master-Giacomo Rizzolati

GIACOMO RIZZOLATTI

Neuroscientist Parma UNI
naad master-STEFANO ROZZI

STEFANO ROZZI

Neuroscientist Parma UNI
naad master-IUAV EMANUELA SAITA

EMANUELA SAITA

Psychologist La Cattolica MI
master NAAD-Laura Sangiorgi

LAURA SANGIORGI

Architect
master NAAD-David Seamon

DAVID SEAMON

Kansas State Uni
master NAAD-TAL SHAFIR

TAL SHAFIR

Neuroscientist Haifa UNI
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master NAAD-IUAV MILTON SHINBERG

MILTON SHINBERG

Architect Haifa UNI
master NAAD-TAL SHAFIR

EMANUELE SICILIANO

Engineer ATMOS BP L22
master NAAD-CORRADO SINIGAGLIA

CORRADO SINIGAGLIA

Philosopher La Statale Uni MI
master NAAD-IUAV DAVID SIM

DAVID SIM

Architect, Urban Designer
Master NAAD-ADOLFO SUAREZ

ADOLFO SUAREZ

Architect L22
Master NAAD-Oshin Vartanian

OSHIN VARTANIAN

Neuroscientist Toronto UNI
Master NAAD-ANGELA VETTESE

ANGELA VETTESE

Professor IUAV Venezia
Master NAAD-Pietro Zennaro

PIETRO ZENNARO

Architect IUAV Venezia

PEOPLE CAN LIVE BETTER.
Neuroscience applied
to our urban environment
enhances our daily life.

Each day we are moved by expectations: these float in our conscious mind and into the deeper level of our being. Neuroscience and architecture, biology, philosophy, anthropology, art, and science, now can help us to rebuild a richer attunement between us and the place we live. At NAAD in Venice, we have convened some of the most important professors, professionals, operators, managers and architects in these fields to bridge the gap between scientific theories and design.

| goals

Addressed to architects, designers and consultants of companies the Master aims to train people capable of completing projects and services centred on improving the human experience of architectural and urban space, to be included within design firms, real estate development groups and private and public services management companies.

NAAD-neuroscience architecture
01

NAAD transmits the scientific knowledge aimed to favor an architectural design able to create attunement between users' pre-cognitive expectations and multi-sensorial experience of space, according to the perception models developed by the neurosciences.
Urban spaces, and transitions inside/outside buildings, is a crucial topic our course looks carefully, intending to integrate scales of perception, through an emotionally-driven approach, with significant outcomes on the health.

02

The PostGraduate Master creates the basis for students to understand how to make the conditions, through the composition of architectural elements (topological and proxemic relationships, geometry, light, rhythm, texture, color, materials, sound), for a regulated development of the emotions in the experience: this, to strengthen attention, memory, learning and the quality of social relations.

03

The course developed its program with particular reference to Airports, Factories, Hospitals, Hotels, Parks, Prisons, Retails Malls, Schools, Senior Residences, Social Housings, Student Housings, Urban Spaces, Workplaces, to provide the tools to create architecture suitable to its use, and also able to improve the economics figures (ROI, SROI, Asset Value) of private and public companies.

| programs



NAAD Masrter Iuav
27th Nov 2023 / 12rd Jan 2024  

FIRST MODULE

ANATOMY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE ARCHITECTURAL PERCEPTION

During the first three months, students will be given the fundamentals to understand how our body is provided with a uniquely evolved range of systems able to receive signals from the outside world, focusing on body movements. next, we will analyze each element involved in the architectural process and the human sensory system. light, topology, organization, and use of space, geometry, rhythm, texture, matters, sounds, and smells: all these elements, prior individually and then through their integration, will be analyzed concerning the physiology of the human sensory system along with the interaction into architecture. also, students will deal with the evolution and nature of emotions and feelings, up to the arising of conscience. all this, inside a philosophical framework grounded in neuro-phenomenology and pragmatism.

In the first module, for all the NAAD students, the program starts with two weeks of classes held only in presence. Each day, from Monday to Friday, we will work on science-based lessons, in the mornings, and with lessons about their correlated architectural outcomes, during the afternoons. Only the third week, classes be also held in remote mode for those following the hybrid course from home..

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CALENDAR I-II-III week
NAAD master Iuav
19th Febr / 19th Apr 2024  

SECOND MODULE

Architecture and the body-brain system

Students will work on the nature of the human pre-cognitive emotional expectations surging from daily activities. From February to April, students will focus on the link between the body and its movements and, consequently, deriving from these underpinnings, developing the different patterns of interaction with space. Finally, students will learn how to translate awaited emotions in a dynamical perception of shapes able to attune humans' needs with architecture. Related consequences in cognitive performances, health, well-being, and improved social relationships are all the classes' outcomes will focus on in the course's module. Some lessons will also be directed to gain knowledge of physiological and brain activity measurements.

In the second module, for all the NAAD students, the program starts with two weeks of classes only in physical presence. Each day, from Monday to Friday, we will work on science-based lessons, in the mornings, and with lessons about their architectural design implications, in the afternoons. Only in the third week, classes be also held in remote mode for those following the hybrid course from home.

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CALENDAR I-II-III week
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13th May / 05th July 2024  

THIRD MODULE

PRE-COGNITIVE HUMAN DEMANDS AND THE DESIGN OF ARCHITECTURE

The third module will give the students the instruments to transform and erect buildings in cities, taking care of users' needs. NAAD will organize fifteen days on some study cases: Airports, Factories, Offices, Malls, Furniture, Hospitals, Prisons, Schools, Social Housings, Student Housings, Senior Residences, Sacred Spaces, Parks and City Planning. In the first part of the daily lessons, for each of the investigated fields, the course will address the expected emotional mixtures featuring the specific typology. Then, in the second slot of each class, some key projects will be introduced by firms, managing companies, or designers who developed these actual study cases.

In the third module, all three weeks' programs run in a twofold modality: those enrolled in NAAD in hybrid mode following from home joined through virtual rooms while those working in Venice in the class. Each day, from Monday to Friday, our course will present 15 seminars intersecting science-based approaches with discussions about design case studies, with final debates also involving professionals from managing and developer companies focused in the 15 fields detected.

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CALENDAR I-II-III week

FOURTH MODULE

DESIGNING THE ATTUNEMENT

It will be divided into two parts.

1. THESIS
Among the themes studied in the third module, each student has to select the thesis theme by the end of 2023. Two tutors will follow thesis development: one with a specific neuroscientific background and another skilled in the particular sector of the thesis's interest.
Before starting with the design, followed by a scientist, students must develop the design's theoretical framework in two phases. First, they will collect papers focused on the topic by the end of Febraury. Second, they will complete the theorethical framework, by the end of April.
After this step, students will transfer the results and targets previously defined in their design, supported by a second advisor selected from companies, and design firms, grounded on thesis topics.
In previous NAAD editions, professors that have supported thesis' theoretical framework development have been Kate Jeffery, Daniela Lucangeli, Isabella Pasqualini, Chiara Ionio, Natalia Olszweska, Cleo Valentine, Alain Berthoz, Bill Browing, Colin Ellard, Sergei Gephstein, Oshin Vartanian, and Giovanni Vecchiato.


Master NAAD-ALAIN BERTHOZ

Alain Berthoz

Master NAAD-Colin Ellard

Colin Ellard

Master NAAD-SERGEI GEPSHTEIN

Sergei Gepshtein

naad master-Kate Jeffery

Kate Jeffery

Master NAAD-Oshin Vartanian

Oshin Vartanian

Master NAAD-Giovanni Vecchiato

Giovanni Vecchiato

2. INTERNSHIP
Within the companies, and design firms, invited to present their works in the Third Module, or other adequately selected companies, each student for her/his typology, or field of research, will develop a 260-hour internship, during which he/she will progress with the architectural design, as the advancement of the thesis path.

| INFO




01| ENROLLMENT and 6 NAAD SCHOLARSHIP CALL


APPLICATION NAAD 2023/24 go to these links:
Educational offer
Enrollment


We inform you that in the coming days will be published Call for 6 Scholarships of 6.000 euros each;

→ PROCEDURE

1. Registration for the admission competition must be carried out exclusively via the online procedure, by registering at the Sportello Informatico (SpIN).
2. candidates must connect to the Sportello Internet, Login and select, from the MENU at the top right, the items > Segreteria and > Preiscrizioni (or) > Application for admission, in the case of former Iuav students).


→ VERY IMPORTANT

1. Visa for study purposes
The Visa must be requested by the students, and presented by the start date of the teaching activities (November 23, 2023).

2. Applicants with a qualification obtained in a country not belonging to the Processo di Bologna (see list) must present:
> Statement of Comparability issued by CIMEA (Information Center on Mobility and Academic Equivalences);
or as an ALTERNATIVE
> Declaration of Value, issued by the competent Italian Embassy or Consulate for the area



CIMEA → VERY IMPORTANT

CIMEA will be closed from 29 July to 3 September inclusive. It is very important to check the release times of the CIMEA and the Declaration of Value, as an alternative to the first.


3. Applicants with a qualification obtained in a country belonging to the Processo di Bologna (see list) must present:
> Copy of the degree certificate in the original language;
> Diploma supplement or transcript of records in Italian or in English which shows the EQF (European Qualifications Framework) of the qualification held.

4. These documents must be uploaded, together with all the required documentation, by the deadline set for the submission of the application (15th Sept).

5. CV in European format (PLEASE NOTE) The CV must clearly and completely report the data requested in the European CV template available


Registration fees

-- The cost of attendance in Venice is € 13,500
-- The cost of the hybrid digital+physical course, is € 9,000


Deadline for admission

The deadline for applications for the master in Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design has been moved to September 29th, 2023, H 12.00


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02| Teaching Activities Timing

We defined two different ways to take part at NAAD Course; one is the Presence Modality in Venice, another is the Hydrid Modality.
In the presence modality students will follow all the weeks in Venice, while in hybrid modality, students will have four weeks of classes' in presence', in Venice, in the first and second module. As suggested in the detailed program published in this website, at the start of the first and second module, the two weeks of entire presence for all will be attached, permitting us to reduce the lenght of the two periods in Venice.

Students could use the Iuav Library and all University's services between the weeks of classes.

During the first two weeks of the modules 1 and 2, science-based lessons will be followed, in the afternoons, by classes about applications on design process. Lessons will start at 9.30 in the morning and, after a pause of one hour and half, will be concluded working on design applications at the 19.00.

In the first module, after the third week of classes, the further Monday, a scientific tutor will introduce different kinds of Tests and Experiences Classes (TEC) to be developed in a team or alone to apply the knowledge acquired the week before. This 'homework' will be accomplished during the next two weeks, and we'll be sharing in a Seminar on Friday at the end of the homework's second week.

In the second module, after the third week of lessons, the following Monday, the NAAD Scientific Responsible will hold (NAL) Neuroscience Applied Labs on the architectural translation of the knowledge acquired, particularly regarding the thesis topics.

03| MODULE III - Week III



10th / 14th July 2023

From Monday 10th, to Friday 14th July, NAAD welcome you to the third week of the Third Module of the course, which engages a series of seminars and lectures revolving around 'The Shapes of Human Expectations'. This week, we will delve into how architecture, daily life, and emotions play vital roles in the design and experience of IN PRISONS, INDUSTRIAL WORKPLACES, SHOPPING MALLS, REFUGEE CAMPS AND WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE

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| WHERE


| Administration Office
Campo della Lana, Santa Croce 601
30135 Venezia
| Lessons
Palazzo Badoer IUAV
San Polo 2468 — 30135 Venezia