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Participate in a Biometric Study in Boston – November 5, 2020!
Participate in this important study promoting the research we do at geneticsofdesign.com working with the non-profit theHapi.org; it’s a great chance to try out eye-tracking glasses and really see what your body’s doing subliminally as you walk down a street! … Continue reading
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We’re Waiting for You!
Stay tuned for more on face-i-tecture, and how faces+’eyes’-make-places, this fall! Ann + Janice
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Five Big Ideas for Designing Today’s Cities
Genetics of Design collaborated with Tufts University on the five big ideas presented here in this week’s TuftsNow and at the Ux+Design conference in April. Too fun! Collaboration’s key. More info here: https://now.tufts.edu/articles/five-big-ideas-designing-today-s-cities
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“Your Brain on Glassy Skyscrapers” continued…
Last month Hacker News made our recent post on Boston’s new glassy Seaport district and its disappointing design their top story. That sent over 5,000 readers to GeneticsofDesign.com from over 100 countries in under two hours! Given the broad international interest, we decided … Continue reading
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Summer Meet-Up: More on Buildings, Biology + Biometrics, August 19, 6:30 PM, in Boston
Come learn about how buildings impact our biology. We will continue the conversation from the Ux+Design/2019 conference and our June follow-up meeting (photo below), embracing common goals to: Improve the way buildings are designed Incorporate foundations in science (psychology and human … Continue reading
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Your Brain on Streets: The Secret Revealed, How Car-centric Development Keeps You Off Your Feet!
Quick, which suburban street catches your eye? Where do you think you’ll likely find people walking on a street? The subdivision at left, or the one at right, with houses close-in? If you said, the street with denser residences – at … Continue reading
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How Boston’s Glassy Seaport Fails + Why It Always Will!
A recent article in the Boston Globe Magazine, 15 Things to Love and 11 Things to Loathe about Boston, labels the newest glassy section of the city “soulless” something people “loathe,” calling Boston’s Seaport District a “bland cityscape, a tract of … Continue reading
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Strong Towns Podcast: “Why We Should Build Cities for our Unconscious Brains”
“How neurotic have we become as a society by living in places that are largely incoherent to our primordial wiring? How difficult is it for us to exist, as humans, in places that kind of undermine everything our body is … Continue reading
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Why Eye-track Boston City Hall? To ‘See’ Evolution at Work!
Eye-tracking Boston City Hall is fascinating and instructive not only because it shows us how ‘avoidant‘ the building is – how the brain directs the eyes not to look at the building in the first 3-to-5 seconds, before ‘conscious’ thinking can come … Continue reading
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Interested in Biometrics+Buildings? Come to a Brainstorming Session June 30, 2019!
Here’s the info: This event is free; we’ll be meeting in the Hooper-Lee-Nichols house, the second oldest in Cambridge, MA, just outside of Harvard Square at noon. Should be fun! RSVP: annsmail4@gmail.com +/or heidi@pribell.com, if you can attend.
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