The Conscious Cities Conference will delve into the evolving relationship between human behavior and the built environment, and the economic impact it creates. Taking place at Arup's London office on March 1, the one-day conference is the UK's first event of its kind and is part of the year-long Health, Wellbeing and Architecture programming from the Museum of Architecture and THECUBE.

The collision of technology with the millennial mindset of knowledge exchange and collaboration is changing the way people work and live. As a result, architects, planners, developers and policy-makers must respond to the urgency for cities to meet these new needs by creating the right infrastructure to support growth.

Conscious Cities will address four different themes that focus on the connection between neuroscience and architecture, with leading experts from both fields responding to the following questions:

• How does the built environment affect behavior and cognition?
• How can the latest findings in neuroscience inform the design of spaces and cities?
• What is the role of technology in creating conscious spaces?
• What is the role of conscious cities in fostering innovation?

Professor Carlo Ratti, director of MIT's SENSEable City Lab, will deliver the keynote speech. Other confirmed speakers include:

• Philip Tidd, Consulting Practice Area Leader, Principal, Gensler
• Dr. Jon Goodbun, Senior Lecturer in Architecture, University of Westminster
• Panos Mavros, researcher on Emotions in Urban Behaviour, UCL
• Fiona Elizabeth Zisch, neuroscientist at Spatial Cognition Group, UCL
• Itai Palti, architect and author, “A Manifesto for Conscious Cities”
• Dr. Hugo Spiers, neuroscientist and Head of Spiers Lab at UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience
• Ruairi Glynn, Director, Interactive Architecture Lab, Bartlett, UCL
• Neil Davidson, Director, J & L Gibbons Landscape Architecture & Urban Design and co-author, Urban Minds project
• Juliette Morgan, Partner, Cushman & Wakefield and Head of Property, Tech City UK
• Josef Hargrave, Associate, Arup Foresight Group
• Dr. Harriet Harriss, Research Lead and Senior Tutor in Architecture and Interiors, Royal College of Art

For further info and tickets, visit the museumofarchitecture.org.