Emotive Design reads the emotional and cognitive layers of spatial experience through EEG, eye-tracking, physiological signals, and machine intelligence — then returns that insight to design as adaptive, human-centred environments. The 2027 symposium marks the launch of the book of the same name.
The book's two co-authors deliver the keynotes and all three thematic sessions — ten-plus years of original experiments, first-hand.
Housing, trauma sites, contested heritage, and over-developed cities — measured as emotional and cognitive response.
EEG, eye-tracking, computer vision, and GPT-based interpretation fused into affective, adaptive design tools.
A focused, invitation-quality gathering that grows into the Emotive research network — calls, workshops, archives, collaborations.
The program follows the book's four-part structure — Brain, Space, Machine Intelligence, and Human. Each stream is a session; together they run as a single arc from signal to ethics.
Reading architectural experience through EEG — brain-controlled experiments, emotion-driven parametric design, and virtual architecture.
Testing emotion across housing, trauma sites, contested heritage, urban over-development, and adaptive prototypes.
Fusing EEG, eye-tracking, vision, and GPT-based interpretation — datasets, multimodal models, and AI-assisted design.
Ethics, neurorights, inclusion, and privacy — the future roadmap of affective, human-centred design.
Target date 1 October 2027 · Venue to be confirmed — Sydney or Seoul, hybrid format planned.
A full-day proposal. The two book authors deliver the keynotes and three thematic sessions; the closing roundtable pairs the authors as chairs with invited discussants. Times are indicative.
The authors introduce a decade of EEG-based neuro-architecture and frame emotion-responsive design as a research and practice field, tracing the arc from signal to space to machine intelligence.
Brain-controlled vehicles and interfaces, emotion-driven parametric façades, and virtual architecture experiments on openness, enclosure, and comfort.
Micro-housing and trauma sites, difficult heritage in VR, Jeju over-development EEG mapping, and EEG-controlled adaptive smart shelters.
Reusing public EEG emotion datasets, multimodal fusion of EEG, eye-tracking and biosignals, and GPT-based emotion classification for design.
Authors and invited discussants on brain-data privacy and neurorights, algorithmic bias and inclusion, and the future roadmap of affective design.
A documentary film from the Emotive Design research programme — the spaces, experiments, and stories behind reading emotion in the built environment. Swap in any cut of your own footage anytime with Edit mode.
The keynotes and thematic sessions are led by the book's two co-authors, joined by invited discussants. Confirmed participants below — add or remove anyone in Edit mode. Stay tuned for more announcements.
More discussants to be announced. Candidates are invited subject to confirmation.
Emotive Design gathers roughly a decade of original experiments into one argument: that emotion and cognition in space can be read with EEG and machine intelligence, and returned to design. The 2027 symposium moves the book's four-part structure onto the stage.
Membership is more than a ticket. Join the Emotive Design network to receive calls, workshop invitations, archive access, and future collaboration updates — the community that grows out of the book.
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