The first public presentation of the prototype of the Contemplative Landscapes Automated Scoring System (CLASS) was presented by our research team on the international IEEE conference in Athens, Greece between 21 and 24 of June.Watch a short report from this event and listen to the lecture given by our leading artificial intelligence and machine learning Read More
Author: Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo
President and Founder of NeuroLandscape. Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture and Urban Ecology, in her research she explores the relationship between the different features of the natural and built environment’s influence on human health and well-being. She has successfully incorporated neuroscience tools to investigate the changes in brainwave oscillation in people exposed to different types of scenery. She has introduced and operationalized the term contemplative landscape and proposed a quantitative assessment scale - a Contemplative Landscapes Model (CLM) - to identify most beneficial landscapes for mental health in terms of passive exposure. She is an author of "Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes", Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health. She is continuing her research on therapeutic landscapes under two ongoing Horizon Europe projects: GreenME and GreenInCities.
Finals of the National Business Plan Competition, iUP25k, University of Porto
Neuro-Landscape in the Finals of the National Business Plan Competition!As the idea of Neuro-Landscape and how it may serve people emerged, we felt a need of confronting it with the reality of the market. This is why we took part in the Business Plan competition organized by the University of Porto for its alumni students.The Read More
The Landscapes and the Brain Seminar, Vairão, Portugal, 2016
The latest seminar on the results of 5-year long studies on the contemplative landscapes and how do they influence the brain activity. Results of the experiment first time revealed in public in CIBIO Research Center, Vairão, Portugal. A very exciting moment for a PhD candidate (A.Olszewska) to present the findings of her doctoral research to Read More
Final Experiment
The time for the final experiment has come. Full sample size, better data acquisition equipment, and 3D quality of images, displayed on the stereoscopic wall. The experiment’s size is nothing like the most reliable clinical experiments, but appropriate to the resources of a PhD research project. Still, enough to prove the hypotheses true or false.We Read More
Next City Interview
Read about how the idea for NeuroLandscape was born and how the research on that topic first developed. It’s exciting to see how far we’ve come since then.Link
Beyond Architecture: New Intersections and Connections Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2014
The research on “Urban Planning, Neuroscience and Contemplation for improving well-being in our cities” was presented on the conference, and published in the Architectural Research Centers Consortium Journal. Multidisciplinary conferences, joining the design and architecture with multiple disciplines, including art and rigorous science aren’t very frequent. This special event was held at the beautifully located University Read More