Why should cities be designed to mitigate bad weather, and how we stand to benefit?

Natalia Olszewska, our Lab Lead has contributed to the 2019 edition of Intertwining Magazine, a publication focused on architecture and neuroscience.

“Designing Cultures of Care brings together an international selection of design researchers who, through a variety of design approaches, are exploring the ways in which design intersects with cultures of care.”

We need to look beyond disease and individual sector silos and take into account the potential of the social and built environment to both prevent disease, and also contribute to it.

How can we transform places where people gather or wait into hubs for interaction and playful learning?

A call to investigate the social costs of prioritising investment in public transport systems.

As automation and artificial intelligence (AI) shift the future of productivity in favour of human creativity, how will workplaces support something so seemingly elusive?

Piece on building opportunities for learning and creativity on every sidewalk, bus stop, and corner of the city and strategies for scaling up the impact of these learning-based interventions.

When it comes to future workplace, architects should be thinking about dynamic surroundings that drive divergent thinking.

As robots increasingly take on manual labor, we will need to foster what differentiates human from machine: creativity.

Rapid developments in behavioural science and data technology offer the prospect of urban streetscapes helping to alleviate ailments such as stress, anxiety and boredom – and even reducing the likelihood of crowd trouble.