Level 1 City of Toronto-De-escalation Training for Street-Front Retailers
Level 1 City of Toronto-De-escalation Training for Street-Front Retailers
Wed, Aug 10, 2022 9:00 AM EDT (-04:00)
Free
Sensing Our City
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Online event
How do people experience space and how it affects their attitudes, behaviours, health and wellbeing?
About this event
Space has never been neutral; it has often been profoundly ideological.
The imagination of urban and landscape designers and architects has been captured by the idea that we read spaces as we read books. However, we have been witnessing a paradigm shift in the cultural world: we are moving from semiotics towards perception and landscapes are becoming sensescapes. Contemporary cities don’t always enable us a multimodal experience of space, they are not always designed with human scale in mind, they don’t always consider our biological and psychological needs. What is the ultimate meaning of human-centred spaces? Is it that in future urban and architectural decisions could be influenced by interdisciplinary teams including specialists who understand the complexity of human perception and cognition?
Sensing Our City is organized to discuss some of the topics around how people experience space and how it affects their attitudes, behaviours, health and wellbeing.