Toronto Mensa Inquiring Minds - Constructing Health: How the Built Environment Enhances Your Mind's Health

How do buildings make us feel? How can they make us feel better?

Through research at the emerging intersection of neuroscience and architecture, Tye Farrow will explore how our mind, and its various sensory systems, interact with our built environment to enhance or harm our health and well-being. Tye bridges the gap in knowledge between the therapeutic medical world and the design community to reveal how the intentional shaping of our environment can support our physical and neurological well-being, through recent discoveries in cognitive psychology (the science of the mind) and neuroscience (the science of the brain).

SPEAKER BIO
Tye S. Farrow, Senior Partner, Farrow Partners Architects is a world-recognized pioneer in tackling how our built environments either give or cause health. The first Canadian architect to earn a Master of Neuroscience Applied to Architecture (at the University of Venice Iuav), he is a much sought-after speaker, having presented to respected organizations in over sixty-five cities on six continents.

Farrow also has a Master of Architecture in Urban Design (Harvard University), and a Bachelor of Architecture degree (University of Toronto), and is currently completing a Doctoral degree in Public Health (University of Toronto).

In his best-selling book, Constructing Health: How the Built Environment Enhances Your Mind's Health (University of Toronto Press), Farrow explores the relationship between place-making, mind health, and human performance, at the intersection of neuroscience and architecture.

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NOTE: This is a FREE event, but you must register in advance by emailing Kathleen Smith at kathleen.walton.smith@gmail.com.

For more information, contact Kathleen Smith at kathleen.walton.smith@gmail.com.