Environments That Boost Creativity: AI-Generated Living Geometry DOI Creative Commons
Nikos Angelos Salingaros

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 9(5), P. 38 - 38

Published: April 23, 2025

Generative AI leads to designs that prioritize cognition, emotional resonance, and health, thus offering a tested alternative current trends. In first experiment, the large language model ChatGPT-4o generated six visual environments are expected boost creative thinking for their occupants. The test cases evaluated using Christopher Alexander’s 15 fundamental properties of living geometry as criteria, well ChatGPT-4o, reveal strong positive correlation. Living is specific type shows coherence across scales, fractal structure, nested symmetries harmonize with human neurophysiology. need supported by interdisciplinary evidence from biology, environmental psychology, neuroscience. Then, in second was asked generate suppress creativity comparison thinking. Checking these negative examples properties, they almost entirely deficient geometry, confirming diagnostic model. Used together generative AI, therefore offers useful method both creating evaluating based on objective criteria. Adopting hybrid epistemological framework plus basis design uncovers flaw within contemporary architectural practice. Dominant styles, rooted untested aesthetic preferences, lack empirical validation required address questions spatial quality responsible creativity.

Language: Английский

What Happens in Your Brain When You Walk Down the Street? Implications of Architectural Proportions, Biophilia, and Fractal Geometry for Urban Science DOI Creative Commons
Aenne Brielmann,

Nir H. Buras,

Nikos Angelos Salingaros

et al.

Urban Science, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 6(1), P. 3 - 3

Published: Jan. 7, 2022

This article reviews current research in visual urban perception. The temporal sequence of the first few milliseconds stimulus processing sheds light on historically ambiguous topic aesthetic experience. Automatic fractal triggers initial attraction/avoidance evaluations an environment’s salubriousness, and its potentially positive or negative impacts upon individual. As repeated cycles perception occur, attractiveness form affects user experience much more than had been previously suspected. These perceptual mechanisms promote walkability intuitive navigation, so they support civic interactions for which we establish communities cities place. Therefore, use multiple fractals needs to reintegrate with biophilic traditional architecture design their proven effects health well-being. Such benefits include striking reductions observers’ stress mental fatigue. Due costs individual well-being, performance, environmental quality, climatic adaptation, this paper recommends that nontraditional styles should be hereafter applied judiciously built environment.

Language: Английский

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A Thirst for Knowledge: Grounding Curiosity, Creativity, and Aesthetics in Memory and Reward Neural Systems DOI Creative Commons
Yoed N. Kenett, Stacey Humphries, Anjan Chatterjee

et al.

Creativity Research Journal, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 35(3), P. 412 - 426

Published: Jan. 26, 2023

Curiosity, creativity, and aesthetics are typically studied separately. The extent to which they share psychological neural mechanisms is not well understood, despite all being linked broader personality characteristics like Openness Experience driven by a desire for information knowledge. Here, we review evidence advance the hypothesis that creative aesthetic experiences depend on curiosity as driver of information-seeking exploratory behavior because exemplars situations highlight gaps in knowledge or require problem finding solving. At level, link curiosity, ones' semantic memory. We demonstrate how critical trait enhancing curious behaviors, acts. Furthermore, role memory such behavior, leading acquisition. examine neurobiological underpinnings these constructs relation mesolimbic dopaminergic reward system, related information-seeking. Finally, creativity experience discuss stages art viewing making relate curiosity. Thus, argue information-seeking, key attributed motivates both activities.

Language: Английский

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Environmental enrichment: a systematic review on the effect of a changing spatial complexity on hippocampal neurogenesis and plasticity in rodents, with considerations for translation to urban and built environments for humans DOI Creative Commons
M. Khalil

Frontiers in Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 18

Published: June 11, 2024

Hippocampal neurogenesis is critical for improving learning, memory, and spatial navigation. Inhabiting navigating complexity key to stimulating adult hippocampal (AHN) in rodents because they share similar neuroplasticity characteristics with humans. AHN humans has recently been found persist until the tenth decade of life, but it declines aging influenced by environmental enrichment. This systematic review investigated impact on plasticity rodents, discussed translatability these findings human interventions.

Language: Английский

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Neural representations underlying psychological responses to natural and artificial features in indoor architecture. DOI Creative Commons
Izabela Maria Sztuka, Maxi Becker, Simone Kühn

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Journal of Environmental Psychology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 102553 - 102553

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Biophilic Design Strategies and Indoor Environmental Quality: A Case Study DOI Open Access
Abimbola Asojo,

Fullah Hazazi

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(5), P. 1816 - 1816

Published: Feb. 21, 2025

Sustainability in the built environment seeks to balance ecological responsibility with human health and well-being. Biophilic design, a key strategy within sustainable architecture that emphasizes connections nature, has emerged as promising approach enhancing Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) promoting occupant However, while biophilic design been widely studied various settings, its application workplace environments public buildings, particularly museums, remains underexplored. This research addresses this gap by investigating strategies integrated Bell Museum St. Paul, Minnesota, their impact on IEQ, satisfaction, work performance, health. Utilizing Sustainable Post-Occupancy Evaluation Survey (SPOES) based B3 Minnesota Building Guidelines, study assesses employee perceptions of well-being environment. The findings reveal high satisfaction (M = 6.29) physical environment, positive performance 5.89), improved overall 5.35). authors examine how Museum’s adaptation Terrapin’s 14 Patterns Design, identifying effective such natural light, material spatial configuration. While these elements contribute an enhanced indoor also identifies areas for improvement, including absence certain patterns, biomorphic forms multisensory elements, complexity order, which could further enrich experience. underscores role principles shaping suggests future explore additional enhance

Language: Английский

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Distant from others, but close to home: The relationship between home attachment and mental health during COVID-19 DOI Open Access
Benjamin R. Meagher,

Alyssa D. Cheadle

Journal of Environmental Psychology, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 72, P. 101516 - 101516

Published: Oct. 26, 2020

Language: Английский

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A neurocognitive study of the emotional impact of geometrical criteria of architectural space DOI
Avishag Shemesh, Gerry Leisman, Moshe Bar

et al.

Architectural Science Review, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 64(4), P. 394 - 407

Published: June 22, 2021

The paper presents a new approach to examining the connection between human emotions and architectural space, focusing on aspect of geometry. It examines how emotional reactions geometrical manipulations within space can be empirically measured quantified. By using physiological sensors, such as EEG (Electroencephalography), GSR (Galvanic Skin Response), eye-tracking (ET), we were able collect data from participants experiencing virtual environments, differentiated by criteria scale, proportion, protrusion curvature. Findings suggest that these influence user's state. developed methodology, which combines both qualitative quantitative measurements, shows changes interest, ‘positive’ ‘negative’, suspected indicate different states.

Language: Английский

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The emotional influence of different geometries in virtual spaces: A neurocognitive examination DOI
Avishag Shemesh, Gerry Leisman, Moshe Bar

et al.

Journal of Environmental Psychology, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 81, P. 101802 - 101802

Published: March 30, 2022

Language: Английский

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Measuring arousal and valence generated by the dynamic experience of architectural forms in virtual environments DOI Creative Commons
Paolo Presti, Davide Ruzzon, Pietro Avanzini

et al.

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 12(1)

Published: Aug. 4, 2022

Abstract The built environment represents the stage surrounding our everyday life activities. To investigate how architectural design impacts individuals' affective states, we measured subjective judgments of perceived valence (pleasant and unpleasant) arousal after dynamic experience a progressive change macro visuospatial dimensions virtual spaces. this aim, developed parametric model that allowed us to create 54 designs characterized by sidewalls distance, ceiling windows height, color environment. Decreasing height variation, increasing significantly affected participants' emotional state within environments. Indeed, such generated high arousing unpleasant states according judgment. Overall, observed scores are all form factors which modulated spaciousness surrounding. Showing environments enables possibility measuring impact spatial features, present findings may lay groundwork for future experiments investigating effects has on mental as fundamental factor creation

Language: Английский

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Neurosustainability DOI Creative Commons
M. Khalil

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 18

Published: Aug. 29, 2024

While the human brain has evolved extraordinary abilities to dominate nature, modern living paradoxically trapped it in a contemporary "cage" that stifles neuroplasticity. Within this environment lurk unseen natural laws with power sustain brain's adaptive capacities - if consciously orchestrated into environments we design. For too long our have imposed an unyielding static state, while still neglecting constant nature as evolves world increasing sophistication. The theory introduced article aims go back without having time, introducing and expounding Neurosustainability novel paradigm seeing beyond confines architect brains parallel. Its integrated neuro-evidenced framework proposes four enrichment scopes-spatial, natural, aesthetic, social-each holding multifaceted attributes promising regions like hippocampus, cortex amygdala. liberate quintessential essence of enhance neuroplastic processes through cycle begins design extends epigenetic changes. This shift foster cognitive health wellness by addressing issues stress, depression, anxiety decline common era thereby offering path toward more neurosustainable aiming nurture evolution now beyond.

Language: Английский

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