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Research profile
Andrea Jelić is an architect and researcher dedicated to understanding how the built environment affects people’s bodily and emotional experiences through the lenses of enactive-embodied cognitive science and phenomenology. This research is situated in the context of social sustainability and human-centered design as geared towards developing life-enhancing built environments, encompassing the physical, mental, and social dimensions of people’s health and well-being. Dr Jelić is an Assistant Professor in Social Sustainability within Architecture and a member of BBAR—Brain, Body, Architecture Research Lab and CREATE Integrated Architecture research group at Aalborg University. Dr Jelić is an Advisory Council member of ANFA—Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (based in San Diego, CA) and faculty member in the Master program “Neuroscience applied to architectural design” at IUAV University of Venice. She holds a PhD in Architecture from Sapienza University of Rome.
Her research interests and projects have the notions of embodiment and experience at their core and include, among others: (1) investigating the relationship between body, stress, language, and spatial experience (supported by post-doc fellowship from Aalborg University); (2) exploring how the built environment can provide opportunities for children’s play and playful learning through co-creation and research-based design for child-friendly environments (project funded by Capital of Children Playful Minds, Billund, Denmark); (3) examining the links between affordances, affective atmospheres, and meaning-making in architecture, which inspired the international colloquium “Architectural heritage: Affordances, affect, politics” at TU Delft (October 2019), supported with a grant from International Ambiances Network; (4) exploring the pedagogical tools for introducing social sustainability into architecture education through the focus on user perspectives and empathy thinking in design. Dr Jelić has published articles in this emerging interdisciplinary field in both architectural and scientific journals, and guest lectured at international conferences and workshops in USA and Europe. Recently, she has co-edited a special issue of Ambiances Journal titled “Phenomenographies. Describing urban and architectural atmospheres” (2019) and is co-editing a forthcoming special issue “Embodiment and meaning-making: Interdisciplinary perspectives on architectural heritage” in The Journal of Architecture (2021).
Teaching profile
Dr Jelić’s teaching is closely aligned with her research through the combination of human-centered design, interdisciplinary research on the effects of built environment on health and well-being, and the sense of social and political agency of design. Andrea’s goal as an educator is to show that sustainable and healthy architecture and urban spaces is a basic human right due to the fundamental link between our minds, bodies, and environments in which we live, work, and play. Such view of architecture education informs her teaching and pedagogical strategies in a twofold manner: (1) through the focus on cross-disciplinary health-related research and development of students’ skills in research-informed design and (2) through attention to ethics of design and development of students’ competences in user-oriented research and design methods. In her role at Aalborg University, Dr Jelić is involved in teaching, supervision, and course coordination in bachelor and master studies, for example in a course “Social Sustainability, Health, and Well-being” (previously, “Architecture, Health, and Well-being”) and coordinating a bachelor semester focusing on the integrated design of an office building in urban context. To support her pedagogical agenda, Andrea publishes explorative analyses and reflections on teaching methods, including co-authored articles in Persona Studies, 2018 and HERD Journal, 2020.
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Projects
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A&D International Lecture Series Fall-Spring 2019-2021 (funded by the Henrik Frode Obel Foundation)
Jelic, A., Martin, M. & Tvedebrink, T. D. O.
01/09/2019 → 30/12/2021
Project: Other
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Children in the built environment, play, learning, creativity: What can we learn from embodied cognitive science and co-creation?
Holst Laursen, L., Brorson Fich, L., Tvedebrink, T. D. O., Martin, M., Jelic, A. & Oehlwein, L. I.
15/11/2018 → 26/08/2019
Project: Research
Research output
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What is architecture for? designing as enriching the landscape of affordances
Jelic, A., 23 Feb 2021, In: Adaptive Behavior.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › Research
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Children, play, and the built environment: What can we learn from co-creation and embodied cognitive science?
Jelic, A., Martin, M., Holst Laursen, L., Tvedebrink, T. D. O., Brorson Fich, L. & Oehlwein, L. I., 2020, Billund: CoC Playful Minds. 140 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report › Research
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From research to practice: is rethinking architectural education the remedy?
Tvedebrink, T. D. O. & Jelic, A., 2020, (Accepted/In press) Building for Better Health - ARCH19 conference proceedings.Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review
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From research to practice: Is rethinking architectural education the remedy?
Tvedebrink, T. D. O. & Jelic, A., 2020, In: HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal. p. 1-16 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Memory in Bodily and Architectural Making: Reflections from Embodied Cognitive Science
Jelic, A. & Stanicic, A., 21 Sep 2020, Affective Architectures: More-Than-Representational Geographies of Heritage. Micieli-Voutsinas, J. & Person M., A. (eds.). 1. udgave ed. Routledge, p. 187-203 17 p.Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Activities
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Co-creating and collaborating with children to activate space
Michael Martin (Speaker), Andrea Jelic (Speaker), Lea Holst Laursen (Other), Tenna Doktor Olsen Tvedebrink (Other) & Lars Brorson Fich (Other)
19 Nov 2020Activity: Talks and presentations › Talks and presentations in private or public companies
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Architectural Heritage: Affordances, Affect, Politics
Andrea Jelic (Organizer) & Aleksandar Stanicic (Organizer)
18 Oct 2019Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses, or seminars
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A&D International Lecture Series Fall-Spring 2019/2020 (funded by the Henrik Frode Obel Foundation)
Andrea Jelic (Organizer), Michael Martin (Organizer) & Tenna Doktor Olsen Tvedebrink (Organizer)
Sep 2019 → …Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses, or seminars
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Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) (External organisation)
Andrea Jelic (Member)
1 Jun 2019 → …Activity: Memberships › Membership of committees, commissions, boards, councils, associations, organisations, or similar
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Co-creation with Children for Children: Promoting Play, Learning and Creativity in the Built Environment
Michael Martin (Speaker), Andrea Jelic (Speaker), Lars Brorson Fich (Other), Lea Holst Laursen (Other), Tenna Doktor Olsen Tvedebrink (Other) & Lydia Immanuela Oehlwein (Other)
May 2019Activity: Talks and presentations › Conference presentations
Press / Media
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CoC Playful Minds udgiver undersøgelse i samarbejde med Aalborg Universitet
Andrea Jelic, Michael Martin, Lea Holst Laursen, Tenna Doktor Olsen Tvedebrink, Lars Brorson Fich & Lydia Immanuela Oehlwein
03/11/2020 → 10/11/2020
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Press/Media: Press / Media