WICI Seminar: Connections Between Psychology and The Design of the Built Environment

In the final WICI seminar of the term, Colin Ellard will discuss connections between psychology and the design of the built environment. Ellard, is an experimental psychologist at the University of Waterloo, the director of its Research Laboratory for Immersive Virtual Environments and an international expert in the psychology of navigation.

In this talk, Ellard will describe how a scientific approach to the connection between human beings and the spaces and places they inhabit influences the design of the built environment. Are the principles that underlie our spatial behaviour relevant to decision-makers who design hospitals, nursing homes, factories, or even urban streetscapes?

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