Through research in neuroscience and architecture, Tye Farrow will explore how our mind interacts with our built environment to enhance our health and well-being.
In his Design Symposium keynote presentation, titled Constructing Health: How the Built Environment Enhances Your Mind’s Health, Tye will explore how our mind, and its various sensory systems, interacts with our built environment to enhance or harm our health and well-being. Tye bridges the gap in knowledge between the therapeutic medical world and the design community to reveal how the intentional shaping of our environment can support our physical and neurological well-being, through recent discoveries in cognitive psychology (the science of the mind) and neuroscience (the science of the brain).
Tye is a sought-after speaker who has presented to respected organizations and universities in over forty cities on six continents, including the Salk Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic and The Cleveland Clinic, and has been called a global leader making “a significant contribution to health and humanity through the medium of architecture” (Stockholm World Design & Health Congress) and “one of the world’s most prominent practitioners of, and advocates for, human-built environments that enrich our lives through neuroarts choices” (Susan Magseman, Founder and Director, International Arts + Mind Lab, Johns Hopkins Medical School, “Your Brain on Art”).
In his first, best selling book, published by University of Toronto Press in the spring of 2024, titled Constructing Health: How the Built Environment Enhances Your Mind’s Health, Tye explores the relationship between placemaking, mind health and human performance, at the intersection of neuroscience and architecture. Reviews of the book include: “this book underpins Tye Farrow’s place as one of the inspirational architects of modern times” (Marc Sansom, founder, SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange, UK).
Whether it’s a new 32-km mixed-use archipelago park inspired by Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” to address rising sea levels in Venice; a new cancer centre in Jerusalem under construction that communicates life’s beauty & fragility through a butterfly-like wood structure; Dublin Ireland’s flagship private hospital which communicates Celtic mythology tied to the land; a Toronto education campus that embeds tree-like natural affordances; or a Sechelt BC hospital that reflects First Nations’ notions of generosity; Farrow is “one of nineteen global earth champions and wellness visionaries who are changing what it means to do good” (Hospitality Design).
Tye is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, a registered architect with the Ontario Association of Architects, and the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, and a faculty member of the University of Venice IUAV, Master of Neuroscience Applied to Architecture program.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about a way forward in how we can construct health through specific, measurable design qualities and characteristics which enhance human performance in the cities we live, the homes we dwell, the places we learn, and the spaces we heal.
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