Architecture and the system body-brain

Students will deal with the evolution and nature of emotions and feelings up to the arising of consciouseness: on these fundamentals, they will focus the link between the body and its movements and consequently, deriving from these underpinnings, the development of language, thought and the same emotions. Finally, students will learn the bond running through empathy and architecture, from which the design architectural atmospheres are at one with the use of space. In the third week, students will work on the nature of human pre-cognitive expectations, surging from the neuro-biological systems of primary emotions related to daily activities.

week 2.a

EMOTIONS, FEELINGS, CONSCIOUSNESS: LANGUAGE COMES FROM THE BODY

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

10|14 February 2020

week 2.b

Architecture and empathy: THE DESIGN of atmospheres

During the second week of this module, invited professors will show students how architecture can trigger different responses in the senses. They will describe how different multisensorial combinations of signals derived by Sensory-Motor Metaphors translations, coming from architectural settings, can enact different atmospheres and feelings.

09|13 March 2020

week 2.c

TUNING PRE-COGNITIVE EXPECTATIONS WITH ARCHITECTURE

The part of the course will lead to the identification, generally speaking, of the role of pre-cognitive expectations of users, surging from decisions developed in each different architectonic context. In the same week, some lessons will explore how the physiological analysis of body gestures make it possible to define the guidelines able to shape the attunement of space perception with users’ affective worlds.

06|10 April 2020