Future Spaces Vision Lab
SHENZHEN DESIGN WEEK 2024
- BRAIN VISIONS
Team Leader
Mirna Zordan
Team Members
陈垂松CHEN Chuisong, 黄菁菲HUANG Jingfei, 林沈如君LIN Shenrujun, 项湫涯XIANG Qiuya, 薛玉婷XUE Yuting, 杨榆楠YANG Yunan, 张汐ZHANG Xi
Brain visions 脑·视 is a research-based installation which is live at Nanshan Museum, Exhibition Hall 4, 3rd floor
4.27-5.19 Shenzhen Design Week
Looking at
Our perceptions of urban environments often occur in an instant, and the interaction between people and urban environments quietly unfolds in a repetitive cycle of vision-brain-cognition.
Brain Visions focuses on the intangible interactions between people and the environment in young, high-density cities like Shenzhen, allowing us to see spatial interactions that are crucial for the brain to process environmental information but are not directly perceptible to the human eye.
#our cities
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Emerging technologies like EEG (electroencephalography) use data visualization to display the interactions between people and spaces, as well as the complex systems of spaces, showing how the visual stimuli from perceived architectural environments affect the brain’s processing of cognitive load and stress levels, helping us to better understand the human brain’s response to architecture and urban environments.
Tell me what you see.
Your brain sees much more than your eyes.
By integrating 1/f noise analysis, the complexity of signals processed by the brain is further enhanced, offering significant potential for understanding 1/f noise’s impact on visual perceptions, which remains underexplored in urban research. This study examines 1/f noise values and their effects on visual perceptions and physiological responses in various spatial complexities. In a pilot test, participants viewed images with different spatial complexities and 1/f noise values while their brain activity was monitored with an EEG device. The study aims to preliminary explore changes in live brain activity and note potential trends between stress levels, engagement, and attention focus across a limited range of 1/f noise values.
The initial results of this study suggest the potential for large-scale experiments to further investigate the impact of spatial complexity measures such as 1/f noise on brain activity using EEG, highlighting the ongoing need to refine urban design practices to better cater to the psychological needs of urban populations.
If you want to learn more about the project, please click here.
