Wicked Neuroarchitecture: Reciprocity, Shapeshifting Problems and a Case for Embodied Knowledge. (2nd November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zisch, Fiona
• Other Names: Ritchie Ian guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 90:Number 6(2020)
• Page Start: 118
• Page End: 127
• Publication Date: 2020-11-02
• Subjects: University College London -- 'Contracted Time and Expanded Space: The Impact of Circumnavigation on Judgements of Space and Time' -- 'Hippocampal and Prefrontal Processing of Network Topology to Simulate the Future' -- University of Kent -- ETH Zurich -- German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) -- University of Hertfordshire -- University of Bahrain -- Iva K Brunec -- Amir‐Homayoun Javadi -- Hugo J Spiers -- Sir John Soane's Museum -- Bartlett School of Architecture -- Talkspace project -- 'Doppelkopf Neuroarchitecture: A Wicked Threshold Space' -- (Un)Balance -- NeoTouch -- Interactive Architecture Lab -- Elyne Legarnisson -- Christine Wurth; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2640
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract: Wicked problems are difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, changing or even contradictory conditions. Both architecture and neuroscience work on wicked problems as a matter of course. The utilisation of evidence‐based design by some neuroarchitecture researchers implies that architecture is subservient to neuroscience, simply a matter of designing brain impulses. Fiona Zisch, lecturer in architecture and a neuroarchitecture researcher based in London and Innsbruck, suggests otherwise.