Designed by Local Projects, Urbanology allows participants to be city planners for a day, lobbying for various initiatives regarding innovation, transportation, health, affordability, wealth, lifestyle,...
Dr. Esther M. Sternberg, an expert on the science of mind-body interaction, comments on data collected during the Lab's walking tours and explains the neuroscience of the human response to place. Dr. Sternberg...
Visitors to the BMW Guggenheim Lab, New York, were invited to participate in neighborhood walks designed to test their emotional and physiological responses to a series of public spaces near the Lab. Colin...
You’ve had the opportunity to create your own ideal city by making collective and individual decisions online and in the Lab while playing the game Urbanology. Designed by Local Projects, the game allows...
Theoretical psychologist and BMW Guggenheim Lab Advisory Committee member Nicholas Humphrey describes how a vast array of hidden persuaders in the built environment affect human behavior.
How can urban systems bring out the best in us? Evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson explains the unique Darwinian approach articulated in his recent book The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution...
Sharon Zukin, professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and City University Graduate Center, takes us on a walk through the physical, social, and cultural meanings of "comfort" in New York's public...
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