The Schröder house was designed by Gerrit Reitvald for Truus Schröder-Schräder - a Dutch sociolite, designer, feminist, and mother of three. It is designed in the 'De Stijl' or neoplasticism...
Simmel categorizes life in the metropolis as one of personal freedom, but he also realizes the consequences of that freedom - that it comes at a negative emotional cost. His...
Whereas architects like Otto Wagner and Louis Sullivan see the development of original style and (by extension, ornament) as a necessary part of the style, Loos believes that the ‘failure’...
Here we discuss Frank Lloyd Wright's take on Machine Production (who supported machine production) and William Morris' Legacy (who opposed machine production).
Louis Wirth and Robert Park were both massive contributors to Urban Sociology. Both belonged to the Chicago School - focusing on human Ecology. Here we discuss their primary difference amidst...
Examining museum design through a sensory lens, this essay explores the impacts of sensory stimuli on a museum visitor’s experience at the Denver Art Museum's Hamilton Building. Cultivating a deeper...
A consolidated + fluid lexicon of original words and definitions developed in Thought Playground essays.
Andrew Prince earned a Master of Arts in private school leadership from the Klingenstein Center Teachers College at Columbia University. His teaching career includes graduate studies work at the Dalton...
"To reframe it - when kids walk across the stage when they leave Lawrenceville after 3-4 years, one of the hopes is that very kid that walks across the stage...
Every day, we humans move within different (urban) spaces for different reasons. Thanks to digitalization and new technologies (such as micro-mobility), the society is worldwide more mobile than ever before....
A city’s administration holds supreme responsibility for securing a data-driven city. Using data to manage city operations and service delivery is significant as data is the heart of a smart...
Freedom, equality, accessibility and democratic institutions refer to different facets of "democracy". Yet, at its most basic, democracy refers to the degree to which participation and mutual acknowledgment are encouraged...
How might the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic continue to affect children and families in the years to come? Possible implications include caregivers struggling to provide responsive care to their...
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Among the present and future challenges facing cities, we have chosen to focus our festival on local social capital as a resource in the face of crises. We have invited...
How do we manifest the best of our values and systems through spaces in our Cities? Through Conscious Design.
En preparación para el evento del Conscious Cities Festival Lima 2020, Conscious Lima presentará el trabajo de nuestros ponentes para compartir el impacto que generan en Lima y más allá....
En preparación para el evento del Conscious Cities Festival Lima 2020, Conscious Lima presentará el trabajo de nuestros ponentes para compartir el impacto que generan en Lima y más allá....
En preparación para el evento del Conscious Cities Festival Lima 2020, Conscious Lima presentará el trabajo de nuestros ponentes para compartir el impacto que generan en Lima y más allá....
En preparación para el evento del Conscious Cities Festival Lima 2020, Conscious Lima presentará el trabajo de nuestros ponentes para compartir el impacto que generan en Lima y más allá....
In preparation for the 2020 Conscious Cities Festival Denver event, Shaping Health, Conscious Denver will be featuring the work of our event speakers to share how they are impacting change...
El Conscious Cities Festival llega a Sudamérica por primera vez y Lima comparte el privilegio de organizar el evento, entre el 19 y el 24 de octubre, junto a otras...
En preparación para el evento del Conscious Cities Festival Lima 2020, Conscious Lima presentará el trabajo de nuestros ponentes para compartir el impacto que generan en Lima y más allá....
En preparación para el evento del Conscious Cities Festival Lima 2020, Conscious Lima presentará el trabajo de nuestros ponentes para compartir el impacto que generan en Lima y más allá....
En preparación para el evento del Conscious Cities Festival Lima 2020, Conscious Lima presentará el trabajo de nuestros ponentes para compartir el impacto que generan en Lima y más allá....
In preparation for the 2020 Conscious Cities Festival Denver event, Shaping Health, Conscious Denver will be featuring the work of our event speakers to share how they are impacting change...
Even if Covid-19 has not impacted one’s health directly, the global pandemic severs almost everyone from the rhythms and environments of former routines. The settings in which we played out...
What if shelter went beyond protecting and housing our lives to actively improving our existence? What if the over 90% of our lives we spend indoors did something more for...
Conoce a las voces que integran las 6 conferencias magistrales del Festival Conscious Monterrey 2020 : La Ciudad Salva. Entérate cómo se esta empleando hoy dia el diseño, comunidad, participación...
En preparación para el evento del Conscious Cities Festival Lima 2020, Conscious Lima presentará el trabajo de nuestros ponentes para compartir el impacto que generan en Lima y más allá....
How do we seamlessly transform cities into integrated multi-disciplinary innovation hubs using data driven design?
In preparation for the 2020 Conscious Cities Festival Denver event, Shaping Health, Conscious Denver will be featuring the work of our event speakers to share how they are impacting change...
"The field of science and technology is wholly self-serving and can quickly turn into a sort of panacea for all of the World’s problems; which is just not true. This...
"Most industries have a similar problem of underrepresentation. Phillips Exeter is no exception to that. All of these issues start there. When you don’t have a variety of experiences at...
In preparation for the 2020 Conscious Cities Festival Denver event, Shaping Health, Conscious Denver will be featuring the work of our event speakers to share how they are impacting change...
In preparation for the 2020 Conscious Cities Festival Denver event, Shaping Health, Conscious Denver will be featuring the work of our event speakers to share how they are impacting change...
“We want to make sure that the future is something that we're talking about, for ourselves and with the communities that we work in. That's really important for us because...
Our perception of space and experiences is structured by our senses. While the research on the influence of sensorial cues on healthcare decisions is limited and need more evidence, a...
Aalto's architecture is based on sensory realism. His buildings are not based on a single dominant concept or gestalt; rather, they are sensory agglomerations. They sometimes even appear clumsy and...
Aesthetic and cultural practices are peculiarly susceptible to the changing experience of space and time precisely because they entail the construction of spatial representations and artefacts out of the flow...
Henry Wotton stated the three conditions of well-built Architecture, as first outlined by Vitruvius, in “The Elements of Architecture” as “Commoditie, Firmenes, and Delight.” The book, published in 1624, was...
"Sucker Punch" and "What a privilege it is to breathe" were created simultaneously in reflection on the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, and the countless...
Call for Participation! Have you ever wondered how your surroundings affect you? Here’s a study looking at the relationship between geometry and aesthetic emotions that you might find interesting!
“A tract of time empty of experiences seems long in passing, but in retrospect short.” ~ William James, Philosopher and Psychologist between the 19th and 20th centuries Essentially, our perception...
As countries juggle with lockdown, globally we have reached a moment of acceptance. That life has to move on amidst this pandemic. What we knew as ‘safe living’ has now...
Guiding principles: Don’t suggest answers to your questions. Even if an interviewee pauses before answering, don’t help them by suggesting or prompting an answer. This can unintentionally induce ‘confirmation bias’...
Code of Ethics: We strive to approach the research with an open mind. We recognize that we, like other humans, are imperfect and will inevitably have innate biases & tendencies....
Define, Map, and Understand the Problem: 1. Work to understand the user. Personal accounts/stories: We will cultivate a collection of stories and narratives from people so that we can develop...
Mission Statement: Our mission is to curate a holistic narrative of community-based stories, scientific findings, and social system insights that inspire design-based interventions for equality. We define space as both...
The quality of urban spaces influences babies' and toddlers' development directly by shaping their spatial experiences, and indirectly by modulating the quantity, frequency and duration of child-caregiver interactions in cities....
Overturning our misconceptions of the school environment and evaluating design interventions to improve students’ wellbeing and academic success while reducing inequality.
Introducing FrameWorks, a series of upcoming articles focused on human-centred design frameworks, historical and contemporary.
An introduction and call to action of science-informed design for wellbeing.
How one woman's creativity has evolved in the era of Covid-19; An exploration of how time and space informs imagination.
We call upon you, the quarantined humans of New York, to share with us your story and embark on a story-telling event for the ages.
Babies and toddlers are vulnerable. They require constant love and care to thrive, along with good healthcare and nutritious food. The science tells us that these first few years of life are...
Henry Wotton stated the three conditions of well-built Architecture, as first outlined by Vitruvius, in “The Elements of Architecture” as “Commoditie, Firmenes, and Delight.” [1] The book, published in 1624,...
Henry Wotton stated the three conditions of well-built Architecture, as first outlined by Vitruvius, in “The Elements of Architecture” as “Commoditie, Firmenes, and Delight.” The book, published in 1624, was...
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This pandemic is history in making with cultural reflections referring to pre-COVID19 and post-COVID19 days. But tas we live this reality now, it seems like it is going to take...
Urban transportation can affect the quality of the experiences that shape the developing brain— for good and for bad. It affects access to healthy food, healthcare, childcare, and other key...
In the realm of innovation, there exists a space where these dichotomous worldviews intersect, and in fact, complement one another quite well.
On 27th July, at the heritage mansion turned creative co-working space - the Bohemian House, Conscious Bengaluru took the first steps towards materialising their vision for creating ‘a self-aware and...
