2024-12-03T13:15:09-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/122129762/sculpting-the-architectural-mind-conference-examines-neuroscience-s-effects-on-architecture-education Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-03-04T21:19:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/g5/g5c005stdbdayff8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Last August, on the Apollonian campus of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, neuroscientists and architects came together to flush the architecture profession with a bit more cerebral rigor. Under the guidance of the <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/111205340/aftershock-4-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-neuroscientific-architecture-research" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture</a>&nbsp;(ANFA), that 2014 conference hoped to provide architects with salient neuroscientific data to use in practice. While still considered somewhat of a niche agenda, advances in brain science and brain-computer interfaces have already been adopted by architectural research; if not for scientific experimentations, then design ones. And that research is happening thanks to the experimental frontiers only possible in academia. But aside from experimental novelty, neuroscience stands to help architects better understand not just their process, but subsequently, how the discipline is taught.</p><p>A new conference hosted by the Pratt Institute&rsquo;s School of Architecture, &ldquo;<a href="https://www.pratt.edu/academics/architecture/ug-dept-architecture/sculpting-the-architectural-mind/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sculpting the Architectural Mind: Neuroscience and the E...</a></p>