The User in Mind Symposium

Event Date: 24 Jan 2018 01:00 AM - 24 Jan 2018 10:00 AM

Event Venue: National Design Centre, 111 Middle Road

How do practicing architects and planners design for and anticipate user needs? How can cutting-edge academic research on spatial cognition and behaviour be translated into design policy? What new research directions in human behaviour can help create better policies and guidelines for the design of buildings or districts?

This symposium brings together multidisciplinary perspectives from cognitive science, policy, and practice to explore how research intersects with the practice of architecture and urban design.

Speakers include leading practitioners and academics from Singapore and beyond:

Chan Hui Min / Director, DP Architects, Singapore 

Prof Kees Christiaanse / KCAP Architects and Planners; Future Cities Laboratory; Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zürich

Asst. Prof Georgios Christopoulos / Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University

Prof Ruth Conroy Dalton / Head, School of Architecture, University of Northumbria

Prof Christoph Hölscher / Chair of Cognitive Science, ETH Zürich; Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore

Gruffudd ab Owain / Executive Principal, AEDAS Singapore

Dr Victor Schinazi / Chair of Cognitive Science, ETH Zürich

Terence Seah / Director, Benoy Architects, Singapore 

Elaine Tan / Director AUDE, Urban Redevelopment Authority

Prof John Zacharias / Laboratory of Urban Process Modeling and Applications, School of Architecture, Peking University