Neurons and Signifiers [electronic resource].

Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative 2015

Open access content

The symposium “Neurologics: Architecture Starting with the Brain” took place in the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto on March 7–8, 2014. According to the brief, the event was organized to “consolidate the gains” of the “decade of the brain” and to raise the question, “what relevance do the discoveries of neuroscience have for architecture, a culture and discipline with its own matters of concern?” Many—although by no means all—papers presented at the conference were optimistic about the “gains” that such a neuroscientific perspective would provide. The text published here is a revised version of the response delivered by Zeynep Çelik Alexander. It is intended less as criticism of specific papers presented at the symposium and more as a general critique of the tendency, manifest in a number of fields today, to formulate a new epistemological agenda for a discipline based on the findings of neuroscience.
https://www.librarystack.org/neurons-and-signifiers/?ref=unknown

Architectural criticism
Neurosciences--Philosophy

Text

Zeynep Çelik Alexander