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Our blog is where we collect and share our knowledge. Five pillars support it: On Track, Media Room, Literature, Close Up and Stay TUNED. Each component has a well-defined identity, but they all work towards the same goal: express the fascination created through the harmony of architecture and neuroscience. Enjoy!

Herzog & deMeuron + Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects: a hospital in the forest

In 1984, the evidence-based healthcare design researcher Roger S. Ulrich, now Professor in the Department of Architecture and Centre for Healthcare Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology, was able to...

Feeling or Knowing? Consciousness is the problem

«There is no better way of arriving at a knowledge of our passions than an examination of the difference between the soul and the body, in order to know to...

Antonio Damasio: Feeling and Consciousness

On Monday, May 9th at 11:00 am in the Manfredo Tafuri lecture hall, the University IUAV of Venice will have the pleasure of hosting Antonio Damasio, internationally renowned neuroscientist. The...

Lobby Alive: the food experience in the Hotellerie

«At the table we experience a process of civilization that is culture and has been so since Plato's Symposium and the Last Supper onwards. Since primitive societies, the handling of...

Tuned Food: lunch is served!

From the awareness of the essential role played by all stimuli coming from the environment, we understand - from an applicative point of view - how neuroscientific theory and design...

From space to gastronomic experience: the complex multimodal integration of taste perception

Eating: an articulated pattern of motor schemes and sensory feedback; an intricate - though common to all living species - innate and instinctive act, with a deep social and cultural...

The atmospheric dimension of workplaces: dialogue with Juhani Pallasmaa

The task of architecture, as Juhani Pallasmaa wrote in Architecture and Neuroscience (Tidwell 2013, p. 8) «extends beyond its material, functional, and measurable dimensions, and even beyond aesthetics, into the...

Architecture and Neuroscience. Prevention is better than cure

Article 32 of the Italian Constitution states as follows: The Italian Republic protects health as a fundamental right of the individual and as a collective interest, and guarantees free medical...

Workplace: the economic weight of social interactions

That a worker's productivity also depends on social interactions with teamwork colleagues or with a conveyer belt type production line, is quite intuitive but has also been amply documented by...

TUNED for Banzi High School in Lecce. Federica Sanchez and Ashwanth Ramkumar talk about it

Federica Sanchez and Ashwanth Ramkumar explain the first phases of an exciting project in which professionalism and passions converge. The ongoing process and the end result will compose a small...

Beauty is in the eye of beholder

The latest research conducted in the field of neuro-aesthetics, the science that investigates the experience of beauty through the methods and tools provided by neuroscience, tries to answer the question...

Innovative schools. The new paradigms of Embodiment

Awareness and thinking, as architectural historian Harry Francis Mallgrave recalls, «they are fundamentally embodied, in the sense that the important aspects of our perceptual and conceptual activity involve sensorimotor areas...

Space, action, emotion: dialogue with Fausto Caruana

I get excited, therefore I am. This is the new millennium motto that marks the passage from the Cartesian dualism, which believes that mind and body are distinct entities, to...

Venice Police Headquarters between security and emotional expectations

At the beginning of 2021 the Metropolitan City of Venice announced a public competition for the new headquarters of the Police Headquarters of Venice. The new structure would have occupied...

Conscious City Milan

On 11th November, Lombardini22 hosted the final day of the third edition of the Conscious Cities Festival, focused this year on the Person-Space Continuum, or rather on the close relationship...

CONSCIOUS MILAN 2021

November 11, 2021 The space-person continuum On November 11th 2021, in occasion of the Conscious Cities Festival: The Person-Space Continuum (CCF2021), Lombardini22 will host the conference “Sharing the Wealth: How...

Urban emotions

In “Le città invisibili”, the writer Italo Calvino writes «you take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of...

Desire goes to town

There is an inseparable link between mind, body and environment that reveals how much desire has its roots in much deeper dynamics than purely bodily ones. It is on this...

The city of desire

LECTIO MAGISTRALIS - MegaTrendThe city of desire15 september 2021, 17.30 Register here: https://survey.skilla.com/ExploringTheFuture_202125 When we speak of desire, we immediately think of carnal pleasures, or of those pleasures related to...

Milan Linate Airport: an innovative restyling

The reopening of the Linate Airport Terminal was inaugurated last June, after an intense architectural and functional refurbishing work. The restyling, promoted by SEA Group (Società per azioni Esercizi Aeroportuali),...

NuArch | How architectural forms affect emotion

June 24, 2021 «Architecture first of all means living dynamically a space»Bruno zevi What is space? According to Garzanti Encyclopedia of Philosophy, physical space is an «unlimited extension in all...

Healthcare design: could emotions support healing?

On June 15, 2021, architect Davide Ruzzon will attend the seventh edition of the European Healthcare Design 2021 Congress (EHD2021) and the COVID-19 Global Summit, organized by SALUS Global Knowledge...

INTERTWINING Weaving Body Context

On May 22, the third edition of the Intertwining magazine, directed by architects Davide Ruzzon, Sarah Robinson and Alessandro Gattara, entitled Weaving Body Context, was presented in Venice on the...

Pills of (not only) light

Lighting the future of workplaces Even this year, Zumtobel Group organized a series of short online training sessions, dedicated to the delicate topics of light and well-being. The meeting held...

A glimpse of the schools of the future

Architectural spaces within neuroscience and pedagogy The idea that learning processes, memorization and cognitive development can be supported by an adequate formal configuration and by a suitable organization of the...

Designing Schools

The contribution of neuroscience and pedagogy in the design of learning landscape In such a fragile period, when continuous restrictions and distance learning remind us strongly of the problems related...

Artificial Intelligence and Architecture

April 29, 2021 - the third event of THE CITY WE HAVE IN MIND cycle Artificial intelligence represents the new technological innovation of our times, but how does it influence...

The golden section and the biological bases of beauty

The brain's response to classical and Renaissance sculptures One of the most debated problems in the figurative arts is whether there is an objective basis for the experience of beauty...

Architecture challenges aging

A new healthcare residence concept for elderly in Padova While aging is a natural process that commonly leads to physical and cognitive decline, there can be more important impairments leading...

Body and architecture

During the Faculty Day at the ENI Corporate University, the founder of TUNED, Davide Ruzzon, talks about the relationship between emotions in bodily gestures and the digital world. In the...

Kampung Admiralty

An island in the city Singapore, a rich island state in south-east Asia, is a microcosm of bold architecture surrounded by an extensive system of parks and gardens covering almost...

Architecture on the threshold, between memory and waiting

In a video the roots of TUNED Architecture preserves ancient bonds that have their origin and seat in the relationship between our body and space. When, about two million years...

Prologis

Psycho-physical well-being at the center of the design of logistics spaces Is it possible to transform the workplaces of the logistics sector, which have always been isolated and bare, into...

VITALITY IN ARCHITECTURE

Wellness between neuroscience and urban design Although urban planners and architects have understood that there is a relationship between the design of a setting and our thoughts and emotions, it...

TUNED - Neuroscience applied to architecture

An initiative by Lombardini22 Davide Ruzzon, director of TUNED, business unit of Lombardini22, takes stock of the progress of the development team dedicated to neuroscience-supported design. https://vimeo.com/512556681

The Orygen model

Humanizing Care Spaces Parkville is a suburb of metropolitan Melbourne, the capital of the State of Victoria, in southeastern Australia. Parkville is home to the campus of the University of...

EY Rome Wavespace

A lab, a space for discussion, learning and cooperation. This is EY Wavespace. The transformation of an innovative functional program into an architectural project was based on studies about the...

Dwelling, new ways of living in wake of the pandemic

People in industrialised societies spend on average over 90% of their time indoors. The way in which we perceive the built environment around us impacts on our mental-physical well-being, our...

London European Healthcare Conference 2020

On Monday 14th September, David Ruzzon will be presenting a paper to a panel headed by Eve Edelstein, member of TUNED’s Scientific Advisory Board, at the annual London conference on...

Museums between design and embodied contemplation: dialogue with Vittorio Gallese

In this month's interview, neurobiologist and professor of physiology in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Parma Vittorio Gallese addresses the complex relationship between museum spaces and aesthetic...

The Power of Consciousness: Davide Ruzzon interviews Antonio Damasio

The Lectio Magistralis, given by neuroscientist Antonio Damasio at the IUAV University of Venice on May 9th, provided an opportunity for Tuned-Lombardini22 director Davide Ruzzon to explore, in the wonderful...

The Museum experience between emotions, memory and narration

The museum:  a space that lives and contains life.   Life that is both soul and matter, a matter that in turn transforms itself and becomes art, with that authentic power...

Il Vietnam Veterans Memorial: in-segnare una memoria collettiva

Nel 1981 la scultrice e architetta americana Maya Ying Lin, all’epoca studentessa della Yale University, vinse il concorso internazionale per la realizzazione di un memoriale dedicato alle 58.318 vittime della...

Liberty is partecipation: Herman Hertzberger's Central Beheer Offices

The revolutionary scope of the movements of 1968 was epochal not only for the repercussions it had on the political equilibrium and social dynamics but also for the theoretical and...