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Is Digital Technology Restructuring the brain?

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Globally connected

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How do we interact?

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“Young people are born into technology, and they’re used to using it 24/7, their brains are wired to use it elegantly”

Dr Gary Small, Neuroscientist and Professor at UCLA [11]

“The technology train has left. You have to deal with it, understand it, and get some perspective”

Dr Gary Small, Neuroscientist and Professor at UCLA [11]

“the more that we as people try and stay connected with each other through using cyberspace as the medium, then the more isolated and alone we would end up feeling”

Psychologist Sherry Turkle [1]

What do others think?

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How human interaction helps?

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Positives Negatives

• Shorter attention span
• Inability to focus on one task at a time
• Difficulty in concentrating
• Lack of focus/patience
• Unable to process large amounts of

information

• Inability to analyse or seek deeper

meanings

• Do double the work in half the normal time
• Keep up to date with friends and family at

all times

• Improvement in hand-eye coordination
• Quicker reaction time
• Picking out finer details from clutter

Upcoming generation of children

21% of 4-5 year olds know how to operate a smartphone, 58% can play a computer game, for those 2-5 69% could operate a computer mouse, but only 52% knew how to ride a bike

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Effects on the brain

• Death of brain cells
• Fatigue of the brain
• High levels of Cortisol build-up

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What’s most affected?

Frontal lobe is responsible for:

• Judgement
• Strategic attention
• Decision-making
• Innovation
• Problem solving
• Critical thinking

Deterioration of this part leads to:

• Weakened focus
• Reduction in creativity
• Forward thinking
• Shallower thinking processes
• Lowered ability in identifying irrelevant

information

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Making changes through Architectural Spaces & Forms

Cedric Price, Fun Palace, 1961

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Cedric Price, InterAction Centre, 1976

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Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers, Pompidou Centre, 1977

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Concept ideas

References

Books

[1] Alone Together: why we expect more from technology and less from each other (Sherry Turkle, 2011) [2] The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Nicholas Carr, 2011) [3] iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind (Gary Small, 2008) [4] The impact of digital Technologies on Human wellbeing (Nominet Trust by Paul Howard-Jones, 2011) http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/articles/impact-digital-technologies-human-wellbeing [5] Interactive Architecture (Michael Fox & Miles Kemp, 2009) [6] Architecture, Interactions, Systems, AU: Arquitetura & Urbanismo 149 (Usman Haque, August 2006) [7] The Changing of the Avant- Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings (Terence Riley, 2002) from the Howard Gilman Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art [8] An intelligent environment must be adaptive, (M. C Mozer,1999) IEE Intelligent Systems and their Applications 14, no. 2

Bibliography

Internet Sources [9] Interview by Alessandro Ludovico. Neural (Marcos Novak, Spring 2001) http://www.neural.it/english/marcosnovak.htm [10] http://www.coetail.com/paigep/2011/04/09/this-is-your-brain-on-technology/ [11] http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/how-technology-wires-the-learning-brain/ [12] http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/how-digital-culture-is-rewiring-our-brains-20120806-23q5p.html [13] http://www.brainhealth.utdallas.edu/ [14] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/20/internet-altering-your-mind [15] http://www.kidsdr.com/daily-dose/kids-learning-tech-skills-before-life-skills [16] http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/ezequiel/thesis/ezequiel_thesis.pdf [17] http://johnnyholland.org/2010/04/ixd-architecture/ [18] http://worldlandscapearchitect.com/ Images

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