EXPERIENCING SPACE
May 28-29, 2019 : University College London
Made possible by the UCL- French Embassy Arts, Humanities and Social Science Workshop Fund
TAKING PLACE
May 28-29, 2019
Day 1: Gordon House Room 106, 29 Gordon Sq, London
Day 2: Lankester LT, Medawar Building, Gower St, London
A UCL-IJN Interdisciplinary Workshop
Understanding the way that humans experience space requires a coordinated effort from a broad variety of disciplines. This workshop brings together researchers in philosophy, architecture, urban health science, psychology and neuroscience from UCL and from Institut Jean Nicod (ENS, EHESS, CNRS) to tackle together this multifaceted question.
Organized by Pablo Fernandez Velasco (IJN, UCL).
SCHEDULE
DAY 1
Gordon House Room 106, 29 Gordon Sq, London
11:00 // Coffee and breakfast
11:30 // Patrick Haggard (UCL) — Travel-based space
12:30 // Lunch
13:30 // Tony Cheng (UCL) — Tactile Field: Philosophical challenges and empirical vindications
14:35 // Roberto Casati (IJN) — The ecological structure of visual landmarks
15:35 // Coffee break
15:50 // Giandomenico Iannetti (UCL) — Spatial modulation of action relevance
16:55 // Samaneh Yasaei (IJN) — On the relation between temporal and spatial properties in time-lapse
DAY 2
Lankester LT, Medawar Building, Gower St, London
10:00 // Coffee and breakfast
10:30 // Jérôme Dôkic (IJN) — Is the feeling of presence a spatial experience?
11:35 // Aarathi Prasad (UCL) — (in)Defensible Spaces
12:35 // Lunch
13:35 // Valeria Giardino (AHP, IJN) — Space and action to reason: from gestures to mathematics
14:40// Fiona Zisch (UCL) — An Allocentric View
15:40// Coffee break
15:55 // Hugo Spiers (UCL) — Real-world navigation and emotional experience
- Wed, 29 MayLankester LT, Medawar Building29 May 2019, 10:00 – 17:00Lankester LT, Medawar Building, Gower St, Bloomsbury, London, UK
- Tue, 28 MayGordon House Room 10628 May 2019, 11:00 – 18:00Gordon House Room 106, 29 Gordon Square, Kings Cross, London WC1E, UK
CONTACT US
For other questions and comments email p.fernandezvelasco@gmail.com