The Effect of Neuroscience on the Formation of Biodigital Space

Year 2023, , 326 - 344, 31.07.2023

Çisem Nur Demirci , Levent Arıdağ

https://doi.org/10.30785/mbud.1274379

Abstract

Studies in the rapidly developing neuroscience field in the early 21st century provide knowledge about the sensory stimuli the body receives from the environment. From a neurobiological perspective, loops and feedback are interconnected in the brain with matching internal sensory and motor maps. Neuroscience can help architects and neuroscientists design future spaces by interpreting experience and spatial transformation. Through neuroscience principles, space's network structure can be explored. It can enable the space, having a network structure, to transmit dynamically in its structural system. In this research, space’s possibility as a self-generating system is examined through autopoiesis, explaining organismic body and life formation concepts. Establishing a relationship between the reproduction life parameters and space design by coding knowledge through digital experiments is aimed since life, vitality, and evolution are code sets. Space understanding with the organismic body increases its sensitivity and offers an opportunity for a re-discussion of space understanding.

Keywords

Architectural design, neuroscience, connective integrity, biodigital formation, autopoiesis

Supporting Institution

GEBZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY AND IZMIR YAŞAR UNIVERSITY

Thanks

This article was presented at the ATI2022 'De-Constructing and Re-Using Architecture' Symposium and published in summary only. This article was produced from the master thesis of the first author under the supervision of the second author in 2023 at Gebze Technical University, Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Architecture. The article complies with national and international research and publication ethics. Ethics committee approval is not required for this study.

Biodijital Mekân Oluşumunda Nörobilimin Etkisi

Abstract

21. yüzyılın başlarında hızla gelişen sinirbilim alanındaki çalışmalar, vücudun çevreden aldığı duyusal uyaranlar hakkında bilgi vermektedir. Nörobiyolojik bakış açısında, döngüler ve geri bildirimler beyinde, eşleşen iç duyusal ve motor haritalar ile birbirine bağlıdır. Deneyim ve mekânsal dönüşüm alanlarını sinirbilim ilkeleri üzerinden yorumlamak, gelecekteki mekân tasarımlarında nörobilim ve mimari arasında işbirliklerine olanak sağlar. Nörobilimden öğrenilen ilkeler sayesinde mekânın ağ yapısı keşfedilebilir. Bunun dâhilinde bir ağ yapısına sahip olan mekânında, kendi yapısal sisteminde devingen olarak bir iletim yapabilmesine olanak sağlayabilir. Bu çalışmada, mekânın kendini üreten bir sistem olmasının olasılıkları, organizmik beden anlayışı, canlılığın oluşumunu açıklayan otopoiesis kavramı üzerinden incelenmektedir. Çünkü yaşam, canlılık ve evrimde kodlamalar bütünüdür. Organizmik beden ile birlikte bir mekân anlayışı, duyarlılığını artırarak gelecekteki mekân anlayışının yeniden tartışılması için bir fırsat sunmaktadır.

Keywords

Duyusal kodlama, nörobilim, bağlantı bütünsellik, biyodijital oluşum, otopoiesis

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