Colloquium on Human and Spatial Cognition [HSC] for Human Centric Design

Behaviour | Experience | Vertical Urbanism

The Human and Spatial Cognition initiative [HSC] centres attention on the human and environmental impact of compressed vertical dwellings as habitable settings. As premise, the initiative seeks to further define the conditions that drive positive change, through interrogation that explicitly links environmental, physiological qualities with neurological traits. Situated within the volumetric and hyper-morphologies’ bodies of work, a diversity of scientific indicators will be linked to habitual experiences, to help assess the human conditions’ reactions to how spaces are perceived, used or understood. 

This colloquium wishes draw on expertise from the fields of environmental design, neurosciences, psychology, immersive design, geospatial sciences and, artificial intelligence to further inform the Human Centric Design approach. Discission wise, we hope to draw out a diversity of perspectives to help inform differentiated data and interpretative methods examining the valance to spatial conditions and its bearing on human experiences. 

A two-day interdisciplinary colloquia to address how and through what means human and spatial cognition [HSC] for human centric design can be assessed and linked between disciplines. Harnessing debate, the discussion aims to seek out the tangential links between behavioural experiences in high density settings and their environmental qualities through methodologies and approaches. 

RESEARCH QUESTION

From the various spatial, analytical, and neuroscientific perspectives, how can we better assess human and spatial cognition [HCD] for human centric design and vertical dwelling?

THEMES

Each speaker will address specific issues under the four identified Human Centric Design themes;

THEME 1 - HUMAN CENTRIC DESIGN AS FRAMEWORK AND CHALLENGES,

THEME 2 - HUMAN CENTRIC DESIGN AS METRIC AND OTHER TRANSLATIONS,

THEME 3 - HUMAN CENTRIC DESIGN AS LIVEABLE EXPERIENCES, and

THEME 4 - HUMAN CENTRIC DESIGN AS AGENCY DRIVEN DESIGN.

SPEAKERS

Prof. Kun-Pyo Lee

Dean of School of Design, Swire Chair Professor of Design, Alex Wong Siu Wah Gigi Wong Fook Chi Professor in Product Design Engineering, POLYU, Hong Kong (Human Centric Design)

Dr ir. Gerhard Bruyns

Co-host, POLYU, Environment and Interior Design, Hong Kong (Volumetric morphologies, Design Commons)

Dr Hee Sun

Choi Co-host, POLYU, Environment and Interior Design, Hong Kong (Hyper morphologies, AI)

Mr Ian Kullin

Design Coordination Manager NEOM – The Line

Dr Bolton Chau

POLYU, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hong Kong (Brain imaging, brain simulation, computational modelling)

Dr Bige Tunçer

Architecture and Sustainable Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design (Computation, Sustainable Design Science, Architectural Design, Architectural Information Management)

Dr MA Wei
Faculty of Construction and Environment, PolyU. (Multi-modal Transportation Network Modelling, Data-driven Modelling and Optimisation)

Prof. Junehwa Song

School of Computing, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Korea (Mobile, IoT and wearable Computing, Social and Culture Computing)

Dr Masahiko Haruno

Centre for Information and Neural Networks, Japan (Human social behavior, neural computations), 

Dr Liqiang Huang

Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Visual attention, visual perception, visual awareness)

Dr Frances Jin

Clinical Psychology and neuropsychology, Neuroscience, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Emotion, cognition, behavioral experiments)

Mr Daniel Elkin

POLYU, Environment and Interior Design, Hong Kong (Digital modelling, LIDAR sensing)

Dr Darren Nel

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (Resilience Design, complex volumetric resilience)

PROGRAMME

1st June 2023 (Thursday)

2nd June 2023 (Friday)

* Programme may change due to unforeseen circumstances.