SITUATED

Today it is my pleasure to talk with Raymond Richard Neutra, an epidemiologist who served as the Chief of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Diseases at the California Department of Health. Before this long term of public service, he was a professor at UCLA and Harvard Medical School and was founding president of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. Raymond carries...

For more than three decades, the cognitive neuroscientist Colin Ellard has been studying how urban environments shape our moods, behaviors and possibilities. He is a renowned authority and pioneer working at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience and architectural and urban design. He directs the Urban Realities Lab at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and is the author of several books...

For this episode it is my pleasure to speak with the Respiratory Philosopher Petri Berndtson, the author of Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing and co-editor of the book Atmospheres of Breathing, he is a breath coach and research associate of the Science and Research Center, Koper Slovenia, past lecturer of Philosophy at Lahti University of Applied Sciences in Finland and the Trondheim School o...

For this episode it is my pleasure to speak with the Respiratory Philosopher Petri Berndtson, the author of Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing and co-editor of the book Atmospheres of Breathing, he is a breath coach, mindfulness speaker and research associate of the Science and Research Center, Koper Slovenia, past lecturer of Philosophy at Lahti University of Applied Sciences in Finland and t...

This is Part Two of my conversation with Galen Cranz, emeritus professor at the graduate school of architecture at UC Berkeley, a certified Alexander teacher, founder of Body Conscious Design and the author of The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design and the Politics of Park Design: a History of Urban Parks in America among others. We spoke about her training in the Alexander Technique, her...

In this episode I have the pleasure of speaking with Galen Cranz, emeritus professor at the graduate school of architecture at UC Berkeley, a certified Alexander teacher, founder of Body Conscious Design and the author of The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design and the Politics of Park Design: a History of Urban Parks in America among others. We spoke about her training as a sociologist and...

For this episode it was my pleasure to talk with Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira, a philosopher and cognitive scientist at TU Berlin where he founded the Embody research group. He received his PhD from the University of Cincinatti, where he also studied experimental psychology at the Center for Cognition, Action and Perception. He earned his BA and MA at the University of São Paulo in Brazil working...

For this episode it was my pleasure to talk with Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira, a philosopher and cognitive scientist whose primary influences are Gibsonian ecological psychology, dynamic systems theory and the philosophical traditions of pragmatism and phenomenology.   Since 2020 Guilherme has served as an assistant lecturer at TU Berlin where he founded the Embody research group. He received his...

For this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Klaus Gramann, an internationally leading experimental psychologist, professor and founder and director of the Brain Body Mobile Imaging Lab at the Technical University of Berlin. We discussed the mobile EEG technology that Klaus was instrumental in developing and what it an tell us about our brain/bodies in motion, how vision is different from...

This is part two of my conversation with Andrea Chiba, a behavioral neuroscientist and professor at the University of California San Diego. She co-founded the Global Science of Learning Education Network and was the founding Science Director for the NSF Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, an NSF Science of Learning Center. We discuss the similarities between rats and people, the biological sense...

It is my pleasure to talk with Andrea Chiba, a behavioral neuroscientist and professor at the University of California San Diego. She co-founded the Global Science of Learning Education Network and was the founding Science Director for the NSF Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, an NSF Science of Learning Center. She began her career as a high school mathematics teacher. We reflect on dynamic sy...

For this episode, it is my pleasure to talk with Jenny Roe, a renowned environmental psychologist, who is also a practising landscape architect. Jenny is a Professor and Director of the Center for Design & Health in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. Our conversation ranges from our innate fascination with fractal patterns and curvilinear forms, our special resonance of...

For this episode I have the pleasure of talking with the neuroscientist Kate Jeffery, who is an expert on the hippocampus, the area of the brain that specialises in memory and place. We discuss how memory is closely connected to the imagination, and the constitutive role that place plays in forming memories. We talk about the kind of memory that extends through our bodies in the form of muscular m...

In this inaugural episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Juhani Pallasmaa, who is perhaps the most influential architectural thinker of our time. His longstanding insistence on designing for all of the senses, his celebration of the genius of the human hand, and the importance of the mythical imagination--have spoken to generations of architects throughout the world. We discuss his childhoo...

Situated is hosted by Sarah Robinson, architect, writer and educator whose books, Nesting: body, dwelling mind, Mind in Architecture and Architecture is a Verb have been among the first works to explore the interconnections between architecture and the cognitive sciences. For more information about her work visit www.srarchitect.com. This podcast is produced by Massimo Bazzurro Music is "Sentiment...