Quaroni and Piacentini deployed light, air, sound, smell, and touch to create immersive environmental experiences for patients including dark hallways that attempted to spatially approximate the individual journey of psychoanalysis.
” The Progetto Ophelia (Ophelia Project), a psychiatric hospital and residential complex in Potenza designed in 1905 by Giuseppe Quaroni and Marcello Piacentini, was an unprecedented example of empathic design for people with physical and cognitive differences decades ahead of its time. His research interests include historical and cultural approaches to disability, technology, and the politics of design architecture, urbanism, and the built environment material culture and museum studies scientific and aesthetic histories of the senses, especially tactility and cognition and feminist, crip, and queer theories of embodiment and subjectivity.įor 2020-21 Professor Serlin was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome for a project entitled “Sensory Design and Architectural Empathy in the Progetto Ophelia. He is also an affiliated faculty at the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University. Programĭavid Serlin is Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies, and affiliated faculty in Critical Gender Studies, Urban Studies, and the Interdisciplinary Group in Cognitive Science, at UC San Diego. Cognitive Science Interdisciplinary Ph.D.Something Pacific: An Art Installation by Nam June Paik.Commitments to Actions in Response to the Murder of George Floyd.Statement on Rise in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes & the Atlanta Shooting.
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