Conscious Cities Anthology 2017: Bridging Neuroscience, Architecture and Technology
3 May, 2017

ISSN: 2514-6815

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Conscious Cities: Bridging Neuroscience, Architecture, and Technology showcases individuals that are contributing and disseminating this new type of human-centred architecture and urban design.
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The second conscious cities conference gathered the different industries and elements needed to build a Conscious City, that is responsive to human activity and needs. It was held in London on 3rd of May, 2017.

Spatial Cognition with Virtual Reality
Dr. Bobby Nisha
Bryony Olney
Can virtual reality become a viable tool for informing design?
Cognition, Design, Perception, Tech, Virtual Reality
City Boardwalks: The Chance of Stalled Construction Sites
Dr. Yeoryia Manolopoulou
Enhancing the city as a 'chancescape': intermixing different places, atmospheres, stories and circumstances.
Architecture, Concept, Serendipity, Urban Design
Conscious Cities of the Future: Research Insights
Arathy Gopal
Prof. Sanjukkta Bhaduri
How to study the ‘consciousness’ of a city, and which city to choose for study?
Architecture, Behaviour, Conscious Cities, Research, Urban Design
The Vital Need for the Unconscious City
Joanna Bryson
What if part of the way we get by is not knowing what we are doing?
AI, Smart Cities, Tech, Urban Design
Opening-up as We Dig Deeper
Dr. Jamie Anderson
Embracing textured wellbeing insights for city design.
Behaviour, Belonging, Social, Urban Design, Wellbeing
What Can Neuroscience Teach Us About Architecture?
Mihaela Mitrovic
Human brains are weird, glorious and driven by a delicate yet robust interplay of various opposing forces. 
Architecture, Behaviour, Cognition, Design, Neuroscience, Profession
Artificial Intelligence in our Environment
Daniel Hulme
What happens when we give our environment the ability to create and destroy?
AI, Architecture, Ethics, Futurism, Innovation, Tech
Behavioural Planning in the Social City
Liane Hartley
Is the “citizen professional” emerging to hold communities, developers and planners together in the planning process.
Behaviour, Communities, Planning, Social
Spatial Reference Frames and the Sense of Direction
Prof. Kate Jeffery
How does the brain maintain a sense of direction?
Behaviour, Neuroscience, Perception, Research
Becoming the City
Prof. Colin Ellard
What does it mean to ask whether a city is conscious?
Behaviour, Cognition, Neuroscience, Psychology, Urban Design
De-Smarting the City
Adam Scott
Dave Waddell
'Smart' as a means for improving, designing and building our cities has reached a tipping point of acceptability.
Industry, Profession, Property, Smart Cities
Breaking Free!
Dr. Claire McAndrew
How will architecture fare in the post-truth era?
Architecture, Behaviour, Ethics, Futurism, Sociology
Hippocampal and Prefrontal Processing of Network Topology to Simulate the Future
Amir-Homayoun Javadi
Dr. Hugo Spiers
What role do spatial boundaries play in the brain's future simulations?
Cognition, Navigation, Neuroscience, Orientation, Planning, Research
Reframing
Jenny Jones
Conscious cities presents a paradigm shift in the world of design. 
Architecture, Conscious Cities, Profession
Conscious Design of Cities versus Design of Conscious Cities
Prof. Michael Arbib
A review of potential paths to elaborate the conscious cities manifesto.
Conscious Cities, Futurism, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Profession
Ascribing Value: The Use of Biosensing in Heritage Landscapes
Tess Osborne
Why does a varied and rich landscape stir a positive reaction in people?
Architecture, Biosensing, Cognition, Heritage
Why Can’t Property Development Be Good Business?
Martyn Evans
"What we property developers forget is why we are here in the first place"
Ethics, Industry, Property
Inclusivity by Guide Dogs – A Different Perspective on Smart Cities
John Shelton
Everyone, regardless of their ability should be able to get out and about safely and confidently.
Behaviour, Ethics, Inclusivity, Smart Cities, Urban Design
Designing for Humans: The Essentials
Sally Augustin
Places designed for humans, at any scale, need to recognize and reflect our species’ 6 most fundamental space-related needs.
Architecture, Cognition, Design, Neuroscience, Practice, Profession, Psychology, Wellbeing
Health, Wellness, and Experience in the Built Environment: From Green Buildings to Conscious Cities
Mark Bessoudo
Reviewing the trends in the building industry towards human-centred design.
Architecture, Conscious Cities, Health, Industry, Practice, Profession, Sustainability, Wellbeing
A Place to Play: An Exploration of People’s Connection to Local Greenspace in East leeds
Rebecca Sumerling
The Playbox is a 20-foot steel shipping container bringing creative workshops and events to diverse neighbourhoods.
Case Study, Communities, Green Space, Play, Research, Social, Urban Design
Well Living Lab: A New Tool for Measuring the Human Experience in the Built Environment
Anja Jamrozik
Carolina Campanella
Brent Bauer
Reviewing two methodologies traditionally used to study the relationship between people and their environment—laboratory experiments and field studies.
Architecture, Behaviour, Cognition, Design, Living Lab, Research, Wellbeing, Workplace
Corporeal Architecture: Teaching Future Architects to Think Through the Body Using Neurosciences and Performance Art
Dr. Maria da Piedade Ferreira
Experiments designed to make students aware of their own body’s relation to architectural space.
Architecture, Cognition, Education, Research
To Shape and Be Shaped
Itai Palti
How does the dynamic between user and environment shape one another?
Behaviour, Civics, Culture, Governance, Psychology, Urban Design
Measuring Human Experiences of Public Spaces: A Methodology in the Making
Jonathan Daly
Leila Mahmoudi Farahani
Tai Hollingsbee
Regina Ocampo
What is it that makes these spaces more comfortable, both psychologically and physiologically, for some people more than others?
Behaviour, Profession, Research
The Emergence of Conscious Cities in Urban Planning
Cliff Hague
The thinking that underpinned urban planning and design during much of the twentieth century is fast unravelling.
Planning, Practice, Profession, Urban Design
Can We Understand Crowds and Cities Using Online Data?
Federico Botta
Policy makers, stake-holders and academics alike all share the common interest of understanding our collective behaviour.
Behaviour, Data, Tech, Urban Design
On Goodness and Greatness: More and Machiavelli in the Modern Metropolis
Andrew Renninger
In serving both the civic and economic, a city can, as Benjamin Franklin once mused, do well by doing good.
Civics, Ethics, Governance, Philosophy, Urban Design
Could You Love a City?
Peter Ellerton
What kind of relationship would you want with a conscious city?
Behaviour, Ethics, Governance, Philosophy, Social
From Non-Discursive Qualities of Space to Conscious Design
Dr. Sam Griffiths
Dr. Kerstin Sailer
Towards a conscious design process in the context of the on-going social production and reproduction of the human built environment.
Behaviour, Research, Space Syntax, Tech