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
Category: Neurolandscape
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
Neuroscience solutions
One of the main goals of NEUROLANDSCAPE is to grow the body of knowledge and awareness about the healing and restorative effect of being immersed in natural environments, and effects of the built elements on our brain. We are continuously running laboratory and on-site experiments that bring us closer to understanding just how the human Read More
Doctoral Thesis “Contemplative Values of Urban Parks and Gardens: Applying Neuroscience to Landscape Architecture”
Doctoral Thesis titled “ Contemplative Values of Urban Parks and Gardens: Applying Neuroscience to Landscape Architecture” has been defended!On 22 July 2016 the first PhD thesis joining together methods of neuroscience and landscape architecture has been defended at the Faculty of Science, University of Porto, Portugal. Agnieszka Anna Olszewska, author and founder of Neuro-Landscape managed Read More
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