Seminar: Klaus Gramann

Building neuroscience evidence of natural cognition in built environments

On 4 October 2021, Professor Klaus Gramann from the Technical University Berlin was invited to give a seminar to NOVELL Redesign team and our partners. We’re very excited to be able to share a recording of this seminar with you.

Professor Gramann is at the forefront of research in the use of mobile EEG to explore natural cognition in built environments. In this seminar, he presents his lab’s recent work in developing techniques for measuring brain activity in complex environments. For NOVELL Redesign this is interesting because it contributes both to our understanding of how we might measure changes in stroke survivors’ brains, as well as the fundamental science required to move toward neuroscience-based architecture.

Interestingly, Professor Gramann’s work is bringing Electroencephalography (EEG) out of the controlled lab environment, and into the real world. This could be compared to the shift in science that led to the coining of the term Living Lab. In 1749, Thomas Knight used the term Living Laboratory to suggest that scientific experiments could be conducted in the human body despite not being able to control (or even know) all of the variables that were involved. You can read more about this on our Living Lab page. 272 years on, Professor Gramann’s work is applying this same principle to neuroscience, and taking steps toward understanding natural cognition in real-world environments.

We hope you enjoy the recording below.