Architect Tiziana Proietti, assistant professor and director of the Sense|Base Laboratory at the Gibbs College of Architecture, and her research partner Sergei Gepshtein, a scientist and affiliate of the Center for the Neurobiology of Vision at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, and director of the Center for Spatial Perception & Concrete Experience at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, joined as faculty for the 2022 Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) bootcamp – “Design, Space, Motion” at the University of California, San Diego (September 22-24, 2022). Specifically tailored for architecture and design practitioners as well as researchers interested in how elements of neuroscience and cognitive science informs and enriches their design practice, ANFA’s intensive, hands-on bootcamp provided empirical and practical lessons for its 52 practitioner-participants.
Over the course of three days, the program focused on how to improve human-centered design by incorporating information about human perception and orienting behavior, including themes of dimensionality and proportion, motion and navigation, and embodied and enactive experience. As a research team, Dr. Tiziana Proietti and Sergei Gepshtein presented their work on the perceptibility of architectural proportion and introduced an innovative, evidence-based method of vision training for designers. For her part, Tiziana Proietti delivered a lecture, “Perceiving Architectural Proportion,” that elaborated on research findings and experiments at Sense|Base Laboratory, research that considers new empirical studies and outcomes of architectural proportion. Together with Gepshtein, Tiziana Proietti created a practicum, “Tools to Study the Human Experience of Space” where the research related to the perceptibility of architectural proportion was put to the test with bootcamp participants performing a series of practical exercises using proportional instruments first developed by the Dutch architect Hans van der Laan (1904-1991).
A new session of lectures and practicum will occur at the 2023 spring course and workshop titled “Moving Boundaries: Human Sciences and the Future of Architecture” in Guadalajara, Mexico, March 27 – April 7, 2023. Moving Boundaries 2023 brings together distinguished international speakers: scientists and architects, historians and philosophers, who will illuminate the many facets of the built environment’s impact on human health and well-being. Enrollment is open until October 26, 2022.
2022 ANFA Bootcamp
22-24 Sept. 2022
Instructor: Tiziana Proietti
2022 Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) bootcamp – “Design, Space, Motion” at the University of California, San Diego
2022 ANFA Bootcamp
22-24 Sept. 2022
Instructor: Tiziana Proietti
2022 Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) bootcamp – “Design, Space, Motion” at the University of California, San Diego
Architect Tiziana Proietti, assistant professor and director of the Sense|Base Laboratory at the Gibbs College of Architecture, and her research partner Sergei Gepshtein, a scientist and affiliate of the Center for the Neurobiology of Vision at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, and director of the Center for Spatial Perception & Concrete Experience at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, joined as faculty for the 2022 Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) bootcamp – “Design, Space, Motion” at the University of California, San Diego (September 22-24, 2022). Specifically tailored for architecture and design practitioners as well as researchers interested in how elements of neuroscience and cognitive science informs and enriches their design practice, ANFA’s intensive, hands-on bootcamp provided empirical and practical lessons for its 52 practitioner-participants.
Over the course of three days, the program focused on how to improve human-centered design by incorporating information about human perception and orienting behavior, including themes of dimensionality and proportion, motion and navigation, and embodied and enactive experience. As a research team, Dr. Tiziana Proietti and Sergei Gepshtein presented their work on the perceptibility of architectural proportion and introduced an innovative, evidence-based method of vision training for designers. For her part, Tiziana Proietti delivered a lecture, “Perceiving Architectural Proportion,” that elaborated on research findings and experiments at Sense|Base Laboratory, research that considers new empirical studies and outcomes of architectural proportion. Together with Gepshtein, Tiziana Proietti created a practicum, “Tools to Study the Human Experience of Space” where the research related to the perceptibility of architectural proportion was put to the test with bootcamp participants performing a series of practical exercises using proportional instruments first developed by the Dutch architect Hans van der Laan (1904-1991).
A new session of lectures and practicum will occur at the 2023 spring course and workshop titled “Moving Boundaries: Human Sciences and the Future of Architecture” in Guadalajara, Mexico, March 27 – April 7, 2023. Moving Boundaries 2023 brings together distinguished international speakers: scientists and architects, historians and philosophers, who will illuminate the many facets of the built environment’s impact on human health and well-being. Enrollment is open until October 26, 2022.
