Expectations move us each day, floating in our conscious minds but also reaching the deeper levels of our being. Neuroscience, environmental psychology, biology, philosophy, anthropology, and science can now help architects rebuild a richer attunement between us and the place we live.
At NAAD in Venice, we have convened some of the most well-known professors, professionals, operators, managers, young researchers, and architects in these fields to bridge the gap between scientific theories and design.
NAAD is the first International Postgraduate Course working on therelationship between Neuroscience and Architecture.
NAAD is officially supported by ANfA, Academy of Neuroscience for
Architecture , the most important hub in the world, founded in 2003 in San Diego , engaged in research
and collaboration between architects and neuroscientists in order to explore, through rigorous methods, the relationship between human activities and architecture.
Addressed to architects, designers, psychologists, scientists, consultants, and researchers, the Master aims to train people capable of completing projects and services centered on improving the human experience of architectural and urban space to be included within design and real estate firms, universities’ research, and private and public services management companies.
According to the perception models developed by neurosciences, NAAD embraces scientific knowledge to favor an architectural design that can create attunement between users' pre-cognitive expectations and the multi-sensorial experience of space.
Urban spaces and transitions inside/outside buildings are crucial topics our course looks at carefully, intending to integrate scales of perception through an emotionally driven approach with significant outcomes on health.
The Postgraduate Master creates the basis for students to understand how to shape the rooms through the composition of architectural elements (topological and proxemic relationships, geometry, light, rhythm, texture, color, materials, smell, and sound) for a regulated perception of emotions along with spatial experience: this, to foster humans’ cognitive performance and openness in social behavior.
The course develops its program on urban planning, Workplaces, Residences, Social, Student, and Silver Housing, Airports, Factories, Hospitals, Hotels, Prisons, Malls, and Schools to provide the tools to create architecture suitable to users and to improve the socio-economic performances (Social Return on Investment and Asset Values) of private and public companies.
The seventh edition of NAAD will start on October 31, 2025. Applications will open in May 2025.
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The program is divided into three modules.
Lessons: one week per month, with nine weekly classes over nine months, from October 2025 to July 2026, consisting of six weeks in-person and three weeks online.
The thesis will be presented at the end of October 2026.
The cost of enrollment is 13.000,00 €.
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