The User in Mind Symposium

24 Jan 2018 | This symposium will bring into dialogue  leading academic researchers and practitioners from the fiels of Architecture and Urban Design, as well as Behavioural Science and Cognitive Psychology.

Desire Lines

How do practicing architects, urban designers and planners design for and anticipate user-needs?

How can cutting-edge academic research on spatial behaviours, wayfinding & experience, be translated into design policy?

What new research directions in human behaviour can help create better policies and guidelines for the design of future cities?

Symposium

The one-day symposium: The user in Mind. Cognition Perception and Behaviour in the Built Environment: Perspectives from Science, Policy and Practice is organised by the Cognition Perception and Behaviour in Urban Environments of the Future Cities Laboratory. The symposium will bring together a multidisciplinary panel of speakers exploring the role of science, policy, architectural and urban design in understanding and designing for people.

Symposium Program

0830 Registration

0900 Welcome & Introduction

Prof Christoph HOELSCHER, Chair of Cognitive Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland / Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore

Prof Stephen Cairns, Director, Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore ETH Centre

 

0930 Session 1

CHAN Hui Min, Director, DP Architects

Prof John ZACHARIAS, School of Architecture, Peking University, China

Prof Christoph HOELSCHER, Chair of Cognitive Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland / Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore

1045 Coffee Break

 

1105 Session 2

Prof Ruth CONROY DALTON, Head School of Architecture, University of Northumbria, UK

Terence SEAH, Director, Benoy Architects

Asst. Prof Georgios CHRISTOPOULOS, Decision Environmental & Organizational Neuroscience Lab, Nanyang Technological University

1230 Lunch Break

 

1330 Session 3

6 X Cognition Research Snippets (FCL)

Michael van Eggermond (FCL)

Victor Schinazi - Tyler Thrash (ETH)

1510 Coffee Break

 

1530 Session 4

Elaine TAN, Director, Architecture & Urban Design Excellence (AUDE), Urban Redevelopment Authority

Alen NIKOLOVSKI, Executive Principal, AEDAS Singapore

Prof Kees CHRISTIAANSE, KCAP Architects and Planners / Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zürich, Switzerland / Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore

1635 Coffee Break

 

1650 Panel Discussion

Discussant Prof Alain CHIARADIA, Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong

Moderator Christoph Hölscher

1750 Closing remarks Christoph Hölscher

 

1800 Networking Drinks / Auditorium Foyer