
How the buildings you occupy might be affecting your brain
Cutting-edge research in the field of neuroarchitecture is revealing the public health implications of building design
by Cleo Valentine & Heather Mitcheltree
Cleo Valentine is a Vice Chancellor’s Doctoral Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Specializing in architectural neurophysiology and bioethics, she investigates how architectural forms affect neuroimmunological activity. Valentine is currently a visiting doctoral fellow in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, serves as the Senior Research and Innovation Lead at the University College London/ RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Centre for NeuroArchitecture and NeuroDesign and is an affiliated researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Urban Studies and Planning .