Descrizione del progetto
Una ricerca pionieristica sull’atmosfera generata dall’architettura
Le esperienze spaziali prodotte dall’architettura intorno a noi influenzano i nostri comportamenti ed emozioni. I progressi compiuti in svariati campi, quali le neuroscienze cognitive, la tecnologia e la psicologia ambientale, hanno reso possibile l’approfondimento dell’impatto a livello emotivo esercitato da specifiche caratteristiche sensoriali, nonché lo svolgimento di esperimenti in tal ambito. Queste operazioni miglioreranno la nostra comprensione del modo in cui creare atmosfere generate dall’architettura mediante la manipolazione di diverse condizioni ambientali. Il progetto RESONANCES, finanziato dall’UE, studierà le atmosfere generate dall’architettura quali stati cognitivi ed emotivi di risonanza tra le persone e gli ambienti costruiti intorno a loro. Esso stabilirà criteri scientifici e una base formale al fine di testare nuovi paradigmi sperimentali relativi alla percezione dell’atmosfera. A tal fine si procederà alla combinazione delle misurazioni relative all’attivazione neurale, dei dati fisiologici registrati e delle autovalutazioni psicologiche fornite per descrivere le reazioni emotive in un approccio interdisciplinare basato sulle evidenze.
Obiettivo
For human beings, spatial experiences are conditioned by architecture. How we perceive our built surroundings affects our psychophysical wellbeing, feelings, and behavior. This argument is not a new one. However, we have yet to objectively consolidate evidence in this regard. Recently, architecture has started to interact with cognitive neuroscience. Driven by technological progress and informed by other disciplines (such as environmental psychology), their synergy can foster the evolution of the study of how people perceive the totality of sensory properties that constitute a room. The manipulation of ambient conditions (e.g. lighting, colors, and materiality) is presumed to impact our emotions. The emotional potential radiated by the built environment composes that which we commonly call “atmosphere”. The hypothesis is that architectural atmospheres define a state of resonance and identification (emotive and cognitive) between an individual and their built surroundings. This embodiment-based perspective allows us to design quantitative, reproducible methods to analyze atmospheres. The project aims to investigate the effects of architectural atmospheres on our emotional responses that underlie behavioral intentions and feelings, testing an interdisciplinary, evidence-based approach. Physiological recordings and measurements of neural activation integrate psychological self-reports that describe the consciously perceived experience. The value of this proposal lies in the opportunity to assess—through neuroscientific criteria and methodology—the existence of a neurobiological basis of atmospheric perception that would explain the link between specific visual atmospheric stimuli and altered emotional states. The planned experiments will address the current lack of empirical data and test new experimental paradigms, such as the use of virtual reality and electroencephalography technology, in order to formalize an architectural theory concerning atmospheric perception.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinatore
16126 Genova
Italia