Colloquia
The Mind and Space colloquium
Yoko Kawai, Barbara Landau, and Laurie Paul
Cognition and Space
The Mind & Space Colloquium III, Cognition and Space, explores the intricate relationships between spatial cognition, spatial representation, and temporal reorientation. Professor Barbara Landau from Johns Hopkins University will discuss how humans develop and utilize mental representations for spatial navigation. Professor Laurie Paul from Yale University will examine the relationship between temporal and spatial orientation, and how we reorient ourselves in time. The colloquium offers valuable perspectives for architects based on the interconnectedness among space, its human perception, its representation, and time.
The Mind and Space colloquium, organized by Yoko Kawai and taking place across a series of four events throughout the academic year, explores important questions including how our mind perceives space and whether our spaces can influence mental health. The events reflect on contemporary academic conversations on Mind and Space from the conceptual, such as the cultural definition of the self and space, to the scientific, which can be measured. Accordingly, invited speakers join from the fields of philosophy, religion, neuroscience, cognitive science, environmental psychology, and behavioral science.
