A speech presented during the “Conscious Warsaw – Sensing our City” webinar organized by the Center for Conscious Design, which took place on October 22, 2020, in Polish (English subtitles available in this video!). Dr. Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo presented a new concept of designing mentally healthy cities based on contact with salutogenic natural landscapes (Contemplative Landscapes) Read More
Tag: neurourbanism
Neuro-urbanism & Neuro-landscape
A new term has officially been introduced in the scientific world – NEUROURBANISM. It happened together with the publication in Lancet in Psychiatry in March 2017 [link here]. City life has a lot to do with the psychiatric conditions , and this is the path we have been following in NeuroLandscape as well. Our cities Read More
Window View and the Brain – study results
Most people in Asian biggest metropolitan areas live above the ground in multi-storey buildings. Here in Singapore residential blocks can reach up to 50+ floors! Developers try to fit as many housing units on small plots of lands without the consideration of what will be the view from the window. Well, maybe it is about Read More