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Organisation profile
BBAR is an interdisciplinary group of researchers working with inspiration from architecture, neuroscience, urban design, urban mobilities, and sociology in order to explore the basic question:
How does the mobile human being experience and sense the contemporary city?
BBAR is hosted at the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, and the Centre for Mobilities and Urban Studies (C-MUS) at Aalborg University.
Vision
We envision our future cities and architecture to integrate the built environment with the mobile human being in a socially and mentally sustainable manner. To achieve this, we aim to advance our understanding of how human experience, sensation, health and everyday wellbeing is affected by movement within the built environment. For instance, how human experiences and their related mentally felt states correspond to (neuro-)physiological responses and vice versa during interaction with the city. By exploring neuroscientific theoretical frameworks and interdisciplinary methodological strategies, we aim to highlight how psychobiological and sociocultural approaches to urban mobilities can advance the design sciences. The holistic and interdisciplinary approach to the interaction between mobile human beings and cities aims to develop new knowledge for the design of future cities and architecture.
Mission
In time, human perception of cities and architectural spaces have facilitated situations that afford specific behaviours and experiences by acting as a backdrop. It is necessary to discover how several overlapping perceptual and behavioural phenomena that are expressed in senses, affect, feelings, and cultural norms, contribute to the outcome. Our purpose is to discover these effects and their underlying neural origin of human interaction with the city and architectural spaces from an interdisciplinary perspective. We believe that relating to the built environment is fundamental to human beings and therefore expressed both in the body, brain, and behaviour. We apply a high-resolution approach by integrating and combining ‘classic’ and qualitative urban and mobile ethnographic methods, with neuroscientific methods to correlate behaviour and experience.
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Collaborations from the last five years
Profiles
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Lars Brorson Fich
- The Technical Faculty of IT and Design - Associate Professor
- Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology - Associate Professor
- Section for Architecture and Urban Design - Associate Professor
- Brain, Body, Architecture Research
- Create Integrated Architecture
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Asbjørn Christian Carstens
- The Technical Faculty of IT and Design - Research assistant
- Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology - Research assistant
- Section for Architecture and Urban Design - Research assistant
- Brain, Body, Architecture Research
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Zakaria Djebbara
- The Technical Faculty of IT and Design - !!Tenure Track Adjunkt, Tenure Track Assistant Professor
- Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology - !!Tenure Track Adjunkt, Tenure Track Assistant Professor
- Section for Architecture and Urban Design - !!Tenure Track Adjunkt, Tenure Track Assistant Professor
- Brain, Body, Architecture Research
- Create Integrated Architecture
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Urban design mapping technologies
Holst Laursen, L., Jensen, O. B., Hald, S. & Hernandez Bueno, A. V.
21/11/2022 → …
Project: Research
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Designing networked mobility hubs in villages
Lanng, D. B., Jensen, O. B. & Øhlenschlæger, R.
01/02/2022 → 31/08/2022
Project: Other
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Research output
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Contemplative neuroaesthetics and architecture: A sensorimotor exploration
Djebbara, Z., King, J., Ebadi, A., Nakamura, Y. & Bermudez, J., Feb 2024, In: Frontiers of Architectural Research. 13, 1, p. 97-111 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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A Comparative Analysis of Architectural Experience in the Reality Continuum Based on Embodiment, Tactility and Affordance
Das, A., Brorson Fich, L. & Madsen, C. B., 16 Feb 2023, (Accepted/In press) Human Centric: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2023.Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review
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Affordances and curvature preference: The case of real objects and spaces
Djebbara, Z. & Kalantari, S., Sept 2023, In: New York Academy of Sciences. Annals. 1527, 1, p. 14-19 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile2 Citations (Scopus)33 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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Designing Atmospheres: Theory and Science Symposium
Canepa, E. (Contributor), Condia, B. (Contributor), Djebbara, Z. (Contributor) & Mallgrave, H. F. (Contributor), Zenodo, 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7930280, https://zenodo.org/record/7930280
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Advances in the Embodied Impact of Affordances
Zakaria Djebbara (Speaker), Dylan Chau Huynh (Speaker) & Lars Brorson Fich (Speaker)
15 Sept 2023Activity: Talks and presentations › Conference presentations
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The City as a memory system
Dylan Chau Huynh (Speaker)
16 Mar 2023Activity: Talks and presentations › Talks and presentations in private or public companies
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AERIAL WAYS OF KNOWING - SYMPOSIUM ON DRONES IN URBAN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE
Lea Holst Laursen (Participant), Ole B. Jensen (Participant) & Signe Hald (Participant)
26 Oct 2022 → 27 Oct 2022Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses, seminars, exhibitions or similar
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Havnebyen Hirtshals skulle være enestående i Europa - men planen blev ikke fulgt
Lars Brorson Fich & Ida Sofie Gøtzsche Lange
28/04/2024
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Hirtshals skulle have været enestående i Europa, nu kaldes den Danmarks grimmeste by
21/04/2024 → 22/04/2024
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Debat: - Det ville have øget troværdigheden, hvis anmelderen havde været inde i byggeriet
05/12/2023 → 06/12/2023
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media