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Tuesday, February 16, 2010 • Noted • by Eva Wisten • #

Mood architecture

We wish we were in Paris for this… Earlier today, architect François Roche and Le Laboratoire held their SYNAPSES SPEECHES, a symposium on science and architecture. They discussed ideas like how the insights from contemporary science and philosophy is inspiring architecture that could react to the mood of its future inhabitants - structures that responds to the dopamine, hydrocortisone, melatonin, adrenaline and other molecules secreted by human bodies…

The speakers included: Mark Burry, François Jouve, Rupert Soar, Antonio Negri, Judith Revel, Behrokh Khoshnevis, Jean-Didier Vincent, Jeanette Zwingenberger, Chris Younes, Stephan Henrich, Winston Hampel, Natanel Elfassy and François Roche. Moderated by Giovanni Corbellini.

Read an interview with Roche here.