Neuro-Urbanism: Exploring the Brain in the City
To sign up for this course, please directly contact Prof. Gramann
klaus.gramann@tu-berlin.de
How do cities shape our minds — and how do our brains, in turn, shape cities?
This course introduces students to Neuro-Urbanism, an emerging interdisciplinary field that investigates the relationship between built and natural environments and human experience through the lens of environmental neuroscience.
Students will engage with key theoretical and empirical work from neuroscience, psychology, and urban studies, developing a critical understanding of how spatial design, sensory environments, and social dynamics interact with brain and body processes.
Building on this foundation, students will design and conduct a small research project, exploring a question at the intersection of urban experience and neuroscience. Depending on feasibility, data collection may include EEG, ECG, EDA, or eye-tracking to examine physiological and neural responses to environmental stimuli.
The results will be summarised in form of a poster or short research report, presenting the project’s rationale, methods, and findings.
Assessment:
10% attendance, 10% Literature research and presentation, 10% Protocol, 40% Results of work packages, 30% Project report
Course Language:
English
- Trainer/in: Klaus Gramann
- Trainer/in: Pema Sherpa