What is it about?
Situated at the intersection of neuroscience and architectural design, our research presents an interdisciplinary research project that aims for a new user-centred architectural design methodology, integrating neuroscience tools and methodologies into the design process to provide a better understanding of how future users will experience a building.
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Why is it important?
This research is important because it bridges the gap between an architect's imagination and user experience, providing evidence-based methods to evaluate spaces before construction. By capturing neural responses to virtual reality replica of environments, architects can make informed decisions that enhance human well-being, potentially reducing costly design failures and creating spaces that better support cognitive function and emotional health.
Perspectives
The interdisciplinary approach to the architectural design process, relying on both creative intuition and empirical research that takes advantage of the most recent technological advances, constitutes the future of architectural practice. Our research presents the first empirical study in neuroaesthetics that looks into aesthetic experience as a spatial embodied experience, a bodily immersive experience—the kind of experience that is of interest in the context of architectural design. Our study can be considered the beginning of a new, exciting field of research through which we might gain a better understanding of the value of good environmental design.
Dr. Claudia Westermann
Curtin University
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This page is a summary of: Learning from neuroscience: integrating users in design processes using brain imaging tools and virtual reality, Intelligent Buildings International, March 2025, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17508975.2025.2479095.
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