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SUMMARY:NEUROSCIENCE\, WELL-BEING AND URBAN DESIGN: OUR UNIVERSAL ATTRACTI
 ON TO VITALITY - Colin Ellard\, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience\, Univ
 ersity of Waterloo
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DESCRIPTION:Registration link: https://bit.ly/3qhf6BU\n\nThere is accelera
 ting interest in using the tools of psychology and neuroscience to underst
 and how urban and architectural design affects human behaviour\, emotion\,
  and physiology. In my talk\, I will describe several findings from my own
  work that illustrate the power of such approaches to promote what I’ve 
 called “psychological sustainability.” The common thread that connects
  these studies is the finding that we are universally attracted to vitalit
 y at every scale.\n\nColin Ellard is the director of the Urban Realities L
 aboratory at the University of Waterloo in Canada\, where he conducts rese
 arch at the intersection of psychology\, neuroscience and design. He has c
 onducted his research both in immersive virtual reality but also at field 
 sites in many different parts of the world\, including Toronto\, Vancouver
 \, New York City\, Berlin\, and Mumbai. Ellard describes some of this rese
 arch in his most recent book\, Places of the Heart.\n 
LOCATION:Zoom
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