NAAD Master first lesson
On November 22nd, Professors Renato Bocchi and Agostino De Rosa held the first lesson to the seven students enrolled in the first edition of NAAD.
On November 22nd, Professors Renato Bocchi and Agostino De Rosa held the first lesson to the seven students enrolled in the first edition of NAAD.
Tim Ingold gave a lesson on the topic: Building Knotting Joining.
Alain Berthoz gave a lesson on the topic: The sixth sense: movement and neural maps and Emotions and body movement.
Topic: 'Colors in the built environment'.
Open Lecture whith: Benno Albrecht, Davide Ruzzon, Alessandro Gattara, Giuseppina Ascione.
Open Lecture whith: Davide Ruzzon, Renato Bocchi, Sarah Robinson
Open Lecture
Whith: Benno Albrecht, Davide Ruzzon, Renato Bocchi.
During the opening day of the Architecture Biennale, within the Biennale Session, the new magazine Intertwining. Unfolding art and science was presented.
The magazine aims to investigate the relationship between neuroscience and architecture.
Speakers: Juhani Pallasmaa, Alessandro Gattara, Davide Ruzzon, Renato Bocchi, Janko Rozic.
During the two opening days, the final thesis of the Master are been discussed.
In the same context, is been introduced the EEG experiment accomplished with the support of Giovanni Vecchiato CNR Parma University.
Isabella Pasqualini is professor at EPFL Lausanne.
The topic your Lecture was: Place cells and gride cells: how the brain maps our life settings
Colin Ellard is professor at Waterloo University.
The topic your Lecture was: Natural Environment and Human Responses
Sergei Gepshtein is professor at Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA.
The topic your Lecture was: Human responses to urban patterns.
Tal Shafir is professor at University of Haifa.
During the day at NAAD, she led a workshop on the topic:
Body Gestures and Emotions. The Knot of Experience, Essence, Emotion and Body Gesture.
In the frame of NAAD lessons at the Iuav University, Alberto Perez Gomez and Steven Holl holded a lecture and debate on 'Human centered design', with all our students.
The edition of the NAAD Master 2019-'20 concluded with lessons in Milan. After a long period of online activities (lockdown for Covid), for this last appointment, prof. Giacomo Rizzolatti and Davide Ruzzon, director of the Master, joined the class in presence.
Giacomo Rizzolatti is the President of the European Brain Behavior Society and the Italian Society of Neuroscience, and is considered, with his research team, the mirror neurons' discoverer.
Presentation of three selected Thesis Projects of the Postgraduate Course
Antonio Damasio in Venice holded a Lectio Magistralis at the Iuav University, in the frame of Master NAAD Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design.
It was a special occasion to deepen the feelings and consciousness relationship, starting from his last book, 'Sentire e Conoscere' published by Adelphi, in Italy.
Graduation of the 19 students of the fourth edition of NAAD at Palazzo Badoer in Venice.
At the Manfredo Tafuri Aula Magna, in Palazzo Badoer,
David Sim introduced his latest book 'Softy City' with opening remarks by Davide Ruzzon.
David Sim, architect, urban history scholar, and writer, is the former Creative Director of Gehl Architects.
For more than twenty years David has been focusing on Masterplanning Frameworks and urban design, applying Jan Gehl’s theories to large-scale projects. David is also renowned as an inspiring educator and lecturer, and has taught at architecture and design schools all over the world.
From 12th to 16th June, NAAD welcomed scholars, architects, scientists to work out ways to intertwine human needs, architectural solutions, and the approaches on these challenges Industry is developing.
City and urban design, green spaces, hospitals, offices and furniture were the topics around which seminaries hinged around.
Speakers:
Kathleen Wolf, Ph.D. / University of Washington;
Alberto Giuntoli, Ph.D. / founder of Studio Bellesi Giuntoli;
Bill Browning / partner at Terrapin Bright Green (USA);
Eve Edelstein, Ph.D. in Neuroscience / ANfA Directors Board;
Conor Ellis / director at ARCHUS Ireland;
Tye Farrow /Farrow Partners Architects (Canada);
Cinzia Di Dio / Professor La Cattolica Uni-MI;
Licia Citto / Manager Generali RE;
Luca Maffey / Design Director at Gensler (USA);
Oshin Vartanian / Professor Psychology (Toronto, Canada);
Maurizio Vianello / CEO Valcucine;
Ana Mombiedro / Architect and co-Director Qualia-estudio (Spain)
From 10th to 14th July, NAAD
has organized a series of seminars and lectures revolving around 'The Shapes of Human Expectations'.
During the week, our focus were center around exploring the significant roles that architecture, wellbeing, and emotions play in shaping the design and overall experience of diverse environments, including prisons, industrial workplaces, shopping malls, and refugee camps.
SPEAKERS:
Mauro Palma, Roger Paez, Melissa Farling, Lea Ferrari, Enrico Frigerio, Sandro Innocenti, Davide Padoa, Adolfo Suarez, Fabrizio Zichichi, Viktorya Voskanyan, Alberto Presto, Chiara Ionio, Michaël Vrijhof, Alice Guezzi, Lidia Bernasconi, Elisabetta Valsecchi. Sarah Robinson, Isabella Pasqualini, Meghal Arya, Milton Shinberg, Tenna Doktor Olsen Tvedebrink, Roberta Albiero, Kate Jeffery.
Two-day conference on the relationship between neuroscience and architectural design, promoted by Advanced Studies in Paris and the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in San Diego .
The event was organized by Alain Berthoz, Francois Pitti and Davide Ruzzon , to talk first of all about on the role that emotions play on the memory of events experienced within city spaces.
Gretty Mirdal, Denise Pumain, Edmund Rolls, Elisabetta Canepa, Jean Francois Daures, Laure Rondi-Reig, Shahar Arzy, Tamar Flash, Silvie Tordjman, Giovanni Vecchiato, Alan Penn, John Sutton, Joerg Fingerhut, David Kirsh participated.
Nour Tawil and Antonio Sorrentino led the four panels.
Presentation NAAD thesis, at Giardini di Sant'Elena Central Pavillion, and launched a debate about arts and architecture liaison, all this focused through our neuroscience-made lenses.
Komal Chokshi, Camila Fagnani, Valentina Perazzolo, Maria Carmela De Angelis, Maria Zauner, and Redon Softa introduced four theses: about Mykolaiv main square rebuilding, on autism and dwellings, a children's ward into a hospital, and how to manage Alzheimer disease through design.
In the last part of the session, with Suchi Reddy and Eve Edelstein, we nourished a debate on the relationship between art and architecture. How can art enrich architectural design, and how should places' human sensorial experience drive this relationship? These have been some of the questions raised by the discussion.
Graduation of the 14 students of the fourth edition of NAAD at Palazzo Badoer in Venice.
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