Orizzonti di ricerca tra architettura e neuroscienze: A vent'anni dalla nascita di ANFA — The academy of neuroscience for architecture

GUD (Genoa University Design): A Magazine about Architecture, Design, and Cities 7 (2023), special issue on Synapse, edited by Elisabetta Canepa, Andrea Giachetta, and Gaia Leandri. As GUD 7 editor, Elisabetta Canepa offers a critical overview of the twenty published papers (written by scholars of interiors, architecture, and city design in collaboration with cognitive scientists), situating the contributions in a more complete and complex context of reference. The ANFA 20th Anniversary Conference (September 2023) provides a fruitful prompt to analyze potentials, challenges, and horizons of the convergence of architecture (the art of building) and neuroscience (the experimental study of experience), now invoked with enthusiasm as demonstrated by the progressive and constant increase of publications, symposiums, exhibitions, workshops, and academic curricula dedicated to this interdisciplinary field.
This essay was developed within the RESONANCES project — Architectural Atmospheres: The Emotional Impact of Ambiances Measured through Conscious, Bodily, and Neural Responses. This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 101025132. The content of this text reflects only the author's view. The European Research Executive Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.