Jakub Krukar visited Future Cities Lab Singapore and gave a talk on “Ecological Validity of Architectural Cognition”. Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) Global is a research collaboration between ETH Zurich and the Singapore universities with support from the National Research Foundation (NRF). It operates under the auspices of the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC).

The Architectural Cognition in Practice team concentrates or bringing cognitive research into architectural workflows.

SPARC and SIL have jointly hosted a workshop on “3D SketchMaps”. The project, in which we partner with Chair of Geoinformation Engineering and Chair of Cognitive Science (both at ETH Zürich), is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation within their Sinergia programme focusing on “interdisciplinary, collaborative and breakthrough research”.

The goal of the project is the extend the popular method for studying human memory of spatial environments - “sketch maps” - from a traditional paper-based 2D format to Virtual Reality-based 3D set-up. First publication describing the concept is already available here.

Jakub gave an online talk for Ji Young Cho’s lab at KyungHee University in Seoul, South Korea who focuses on spatial ability performance in interior design and architecture.

SPARC co-organises a workshop to help define a new research area – the building-level counterpoint to digital civics - how do new technologies enable and empower the inhabitants of a multi- occupancy buildings? This workshop will gather interdisciplinary experts in HCI, design, architecture, data ethics, and cognitive science to reflect on the role of HCI in cultivating digital civics inside buildings. The workshop will be a rolling full-day hybrid event with options to participate online or offline in Honolulu, Hawai’i during the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference. Workshop date: May 11th, 2024 https://habitech.space

In a new book on museum architecture edited by Prof. John Peponis from GeorgiaTech I write about ‘glancing away’ from art works. Why do we look away “into empty space” when spending time in museums and why has this been ignored by empirical research? The chapter is available here.