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The Centre for Conscious Design

Sensing our City

October 22, 2020 – 3:00 pm
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Online
Recordings (available to CCD Members)

Online I EVENT WILL BE IN POLISH with international speakers’ intro in English

Space has never been neutral; it has often been profoundly ideological.
The imagination of urban and landscape designers and architects has been captured by the idea that we read spaces as we read books. However, we have been witnessing a paradigm shift in the cultural world: we are moving from semiotics towards perception and landscapes are becoming sensescapes. Contemporary cities don’t always enable us a multimodal experience of space, they are not always designed with human scale in mind, they don’t always consider our biological and psychological. What is the ultimate meaning of human-centred spaces? Is it that in future urban and architectural decisions could be influenced by interdisciplinary teams including specialists who understand the complexity of human perception and cognition?
Sensing Our City is organized to discuss some of the topics around how people experience space and how it affects their attitudes, behaviours, health and wellbeing.

ORGANIZER: Natalia Olszewska

SCHEDULE:

15.00
INTRODUCTION

Natalia Olszewska / Conscious Cities

15.05
(NEURO)SCIENCE-INFORMED DESIGN (ENGLISH)

Davide Ruzzon / About Neuroscience and Architecture
Nour Tawil / Environmental Neuroscience
Michal Matlon / Environment and wellbeing.“Venetian Letter”, a new initiative.

15.25
ARCHITECTURE & HEALTH (POLISH)

Agnieszka Olszewska – Guizzo / “Healthy Cities – cities for people”. How to design urban spaces to enhance inhabitants’ health
Karolina Zielinska-Dabkowska / Light in a city. Its impact on public health
Karolina Konecka / Nudging in the built environment. Choice architecture and health

15.45 – 15.55 – coffee break

15.55
URBAN DESIGN & HUMAN NEEDS (POLISH)

Anna Petroff-Skiba / A citizen being the centre of attention. How to plan a city and its actions, remembering who we do it for?
Anna Kotowska / Participatory projects – how to respond to human needs and create a lively urban space in a city?
Beata Patuszynska / Urban games – children and urban space.
Dominika Sadowska / Managing VUCA (Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) at a city level

16.35
INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY (POLISH)

Waldemar Olbryk / “Experimenting in a city”. Innovations. ‘Destination places’ by Echo. The role of technology in a city
Magda Gawron / “Cities of Plants”- how to use technology and data analysis to support humans in a fight with a drought, drainage and smog.
Przemyslaw Zakrzewski / Digitization in a city – a global view. Polish enterprises and Industry 4.0. Education and challenges posed by the ever-changing world
Joanna Erbel / Trust as a currency of the future – how tokenization can strengthen local communities

17.05 – 17.30
DISCUSSION

Host Chapter / Organisers

Organising Fellow/s

This event is part of an event series