During three months of 2019, from February to April, students will deal with the development and nature of emotions and feelings up to the arising of conscience: on these fundamentals, they will focus the link between the body and its movements and consequently, arising from these underpinnings, the development of language and feelings. Finally, students will learn the connection running through empathy and architecture, from which each mean of design architectural atmospheres at one with the use of space is gathered. In the third week, students will work on the nature of the human pre-cognitive expectations, surging from the neuro-biological systems of primary emotions, related to the daily activities.
The course of these researchers will be made of 120 hours of lessons divided into three parts of 40 hours to be developed in three weeks.

week 2.a

Emotions, feelings, conscience: language comes from the body

This part will focus on the axis, that starting from emotions leads to the feelings, decisively to the consciousness. On this terrain, lessons shall bring students mind on the emerging and the development of a body language and thought correlated to the emotion/feeling binomial.

week 2.b

Architecture and empathy: THE DESIGN of atmospheres

During the second week of this module, invited professors will show to the students how architecture can trigger different responses in the senses. Along these five days, will be described how different multisensorial combinations of signals, coming from architectural settings, can activate different atmospheres and feelings.

week 2.c

TUNING PRE-COGNITIVE EXPECTATIONS WITH ARCHITECTURE

The course, in this part of the studies, will lead to the identification, generally speaking, of the role of pre-cognitive expectations of users, surging from decisions developed in each different architectonic contexts. In the same week, some lessons will explore the unfriendly outcomes produced by the conflict between an architecture not adequately conceived and the pre-cognitive expectations of users.