Projekt

Glass has become a defining feature of contemporary architecture. In the shape of facades, windows, doors, canopies, winter gardens, staircases, walkways and walls, glass is found as a core structural element in public and private buildings alike. Its diverse applicability has been closely associated with one of its defining characteristics: Glass can be transparent. In consequence, the material often forms an invisible barrier. What remains to be determined, however, is how humans perceive, represent and act around such barriers. The project describes a series of experiments designed to address this empirical lacuna. As a collaborative endeavor between an anthropologist, an architect, a neuroscientist, a social psychologist, and two vision scientists, the project ultimately aims at providing crossdisciplinary insights upon which the architectural use of glass in man-made living and working environments.

• Emily Cross, Ph. D.

  Bangor University
  School of Psychology
  Adeilad Brigantia
  Bangor Gwynedd
  Grossbritannien
  

• Radoslaw Martin Cichy

  Humboldt-Universität Berlin
  Bernstein Center for Computational
  Neuroscience Berlin
  Berlin
  

• Alexandra Allison de Sousa, Ph. D.

  Queen Mary University of London
  School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
  London
  Grossbritannien
  

• Marcin Leszczynski

  Universität München
  Fakultät für Psychologie und Pädagogik
  Allgemeine und Experimentelle Psychologie
  München
  

• Dr.-Ing. Gesine Marquardt

  Technische Universität Dresden
  Fachbereich Architektur/Gebäudelehre und Entwerfen
  Emmy Noether-Arbeitsgruppe "Architektur im
  demografischen Wandel"
  Dresden
  

• Susanne Quadflieg, Ph. D.

  Université catholique de Louvain
  Department of Psychology
  Louvain-La-Neuve
  Belgien