Many overlaps with what we’re doing here at NeuroLandscape: EEG, nature, mental health, Frederick Law Olmsted, Singapore.”When we spend time in green space, there is something profound going on.”https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/01/call-to-wild/
Category: Neurolandscape
Horizon 2020 Proposal Submitted!
From December until now has been a real marathon: 2 workshops, 8 European partners, 150 pages, dozens of meetings (real and online), tons of work and research done…whew!Before all thought and reflections from this time fade away, I wanted to share some of the experiences here, as a guide for those eyeing the possibility of Read More
Contemplative Spaces: New Approaches in Design Research
GRAPHIC BY GIUSEPPINA ASCIONEWe’re working towards taking care of outdoor spaces. Good to see others on the same track with indoor spaces. We can’t spend all our time outdoors after all…or can we? ^_^We also appreciate how mindfulness can be summed up in the form of a tree. Extra points!https://www.neuroarchitectura.com/articles/2016/5/9/contemplative-spaces-towards-a-new-design-approach
Green Exercise Partnership, NHS Scotland
Scotland gets the importance of green space for health.Their National Health Service has teamed up with the Forestry Commission Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage Heritage to create the NHS Greenspace Demonstration Project to ensure the inclusion of green space at health facilities around the country. They’ve even gone a step further with the Green Exercise Read More
Volunteering Opportunity in Singapore – Communications
Our NGO is looking for a volunteer who will take care of our PR and Communications in Singapore.JOB DESCRIPTION & SCOPEWe would like to especially invite students or graduates from the appropriate university course, however, we are open for offers from other people too. The selected person will help us build the NeuroLandscape communications strategy and launch Read More
Colour-blindness and appreciation of green landscape?
This might be a very pertinent question… If contact with nature and the visual stimuli from being surrounded by predominantly GREEN environment is so beneficial for our overall wellbeing… what about colour-blind people? Of course researchers have already asked similar questions and we now know that some types of colour-blindness can even have their advantages. The Read More
Ask the Neuroscientist – an interview with Dr. Nicolas Escoffier
Taking the advantage of having a neuroscience expert on our team, we sat down with our very own Dr. Nicolas Escoffier to talk about mental health, research and of course, our most enigmatic organ – the brain. How can neuroscience help to answer questions about our living environment and to understand more about our relationship Read More
WHO calls for action to make cities greener
For many years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has made various moves to emphasize and promote mental health as one of the major issues of the developed world. Already in 2005, it stated that Europe’s biggest problem today is the effects of mental disorders of the European population. A quarter of the population suffers from Read More
EYE PROGRAM, Working out the prototype of CLASS
Taking a sprouting idea through a process of producing a final prototype is both exciting and tense. Looking for help seems like a good idea and it turns out the help may be around the corner when we know where to look for it. Our organization took advantage of a less-known, a sort of a Read More
Why NeuroLandscape and not Neuro-Landscape?
Besides aesthetical preference, the decision to avoid the hyphenated gap between ‘neuro’ and ‘landscape’ is a subtle nod to the philosophy of our organization. Inclusion of the hyphen could suggest that the activities of the brain and the surrounding landscape need to be forcefully brought together, whereas the mind and its physical environment are in Read More