<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<u><b>Please post:</b></u><br>
<br>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman"">ANFA 2016: </span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Neuroscience for
Architecture. Abstracts Deadline March 15, 2016.<br>
</span></p>
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman""><o:p> You are invited to submit an abstract </o:p></span></b><br>
to the 2016 international meeting of the Academy of Neuroscience for
Architecture, ANFA 2016 <br>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><u><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.anfarch.org/activities/anfa-2016-connections-bridgesynapses/"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.anfarch.org/activities/anfa-2016-connections-bridgesynapses/">http://www.anfarch.org/activities/anfa-2016-connections-bridgesynapses/</a></a>
<br>
</u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">which will be held at the
Salk Institute in La Jolla California, September 22-24, 2016.<br>
</span></p>
<p>Possible themes for presentations include but are not limited to
the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Neuromorphic architecture: the use of brain operating
principles to enhance the intelligence of the built environment</li>
<li>Learning from animal research: key findings, translational
research, research-based architectural applications.</li>
<li>The neurological impacts of perception of architectural spaces
(vision, hearing, touch, etc.)</li>
<li>The role of action and interaction in the user’s experience of
buildings</li>
<li>Smart furniture and smart buildings as empathic robots<br>
</li>
<li>The relationship between spaces and memory: wayfinding and
exploration</li>
<li>Emotion, empathy and neuroesthetics in the built environment</li>
<li>The neuroscientific connection to enhancing particular
building types such as: Alzheimer’s facilities, correctional
facilities, laboratories, hospitals, schools, homes, and
spiritual spaces</li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
call for papers is here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.anfarch.org/news/p1384/">http://www.anfarch.org/news/p1384/</a></span></span><br>
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">It
is not too late to submit –</span></b><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">the deadline has been
extended to March 15.<br>
</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">*****<br>
</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">The meeting will feature
three keynote speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Eric
Kandel, Nobel prize winner for his work on the neuroscience of
learning and memory, will build on the themes of his brilliant
book </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Age of
Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind,
and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.stevenholl.com_&d=CwMGaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=eXy5m4nigBlFAqbXY1naTA&m=-R2GbEtfeT28lVzKjgWd-EPEctfOLuEm4grakLzBma4&s=_O3sPqsrOptRS-f3JH9z1_2eSKhxD--XfipCVfCnEcw&e="><span
style="color:windowtext;border:none windowtext
1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;
padding:0in;background:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Steven
Holl</span></a>, New York based American Architect,
watercolorist, and winner of<span style="background:white"> the
2014 AIA Gold medal will share the ideas that infuse his
structures that masterfully blend space and light with a
unique contextual awareness.</span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Thomas
R.
Fisher, director of the Metropolitan Design Center at the
University of Minnesota will extend insights from his seminal
book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">In the Scheme of
Things: Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Michael A. Arbib
University Professor; Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience and Psychology
Director of the ABLE Project: Action, Brain, Language & Evolution
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA
Phone (213) 740-9220; Fax (213) 740 7877; Email <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:arbib@usc.edu">arbib@usc.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=16">http://www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=16</a>
Vice-President, Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.anfarch.org">www.anfarch.org</a></pre>
</body>
</html>