A COMMON GROUND BETWEEN NEUROSCIENCES AND ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: EMPATHY, EMBODIMENT, EMOTION

In the last decade, increasing popularity of neuroscience has involved architecture. Both neuroscientists and architects have endeavoured to understand how experience architecture works from standpoint cognitive functioning. This been possible thanks neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI discoveries like mirror neurons. These researches, despite their outstanding quality, are difficult implement for what concerns practice architectural design. However, there is a common ground where theory, phenomenology intersect, represented by empathy, embodiment, emotion. They frame awareness space counterpart visual perception. The main goal design make living but take meaning, it be “negative” human body. process comes into existence through “old” tools, i.e. mentioned Still, they can get new meaning if traditional hermeneutic blended with latest knowledge provided neurosciences.