Art and the City: How Art Influences our Perception of Public Places.
If you walk through the city with your eyes open, you will discover art in public spaces. It has many facets. From monuments to street...
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Neurourbanism
Science for Better Cities.
Cities are growing, worldwide. At the same time, studies show that people in cities are more likely to suffer from mental illness, and are more often stressed and lonely. How does living in urban environments influence our psychological well-being - and how can we make our cities even more liveable?
As an interdisciplinary association of scientists and practitioners, we are breaking new ground in the study of cities and the psyche and are transferring our results directly into practice.
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Research
Data for Better Cities.
Scientific findings for urban challenges: Together with researchers from the Charité, Humboldt University, and the TU Berlin, we are investigating which factors influence our psychological well-being in cities.
We are currently researching in four central areas:
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Theory & framework
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Big Data Analytics
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Your Emotional City
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Experimental Urban Research
Prof. Dr. med.
Mazda Adli
Research Director Charité
Chefarzt Fliedner Klinik Berlin
Professor für Affektive Störungen an der Charité Berlin
Leiter der Forschungsgruppe Affektive Störungen an der Charité Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
Prof. Dr. phil.
Klaus Gramann
Research Director TU; Principal Investigator - Biopsychology (TU)
Professor für Experimentelle Psychologie
Technische Universität Berlin
Dr. phil.
Joerg Fingerhut
Research Director HU
Humboldt-Universität, Berlin School of Mind & Brain
Prof. Dr.
Ulrike Kluge
Principal Investigator - Transcultural Psychology
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Klinik für Psychatrie und Psychotherapie
Prof. Dr.
Dagmar Haase
Principal Investigator - Urban Studies
Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Geographical Insitute, Landschaftsökologie und Biogeographie
M.Sc. Psych
Sephira Kolbe
Coordinator & Doctoral Student
Humboldt University, Berlin School of Mind & Brain
Dr.
Nassim Mehran
Senior Researcher
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Klinik für Psychatrie und Psychotherapie
Dr.
Shadi Bagherzadeh Azbari
Senior Researcher
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Klinik für Psychatrie und Psychotherapie
B.Sc. Psych.
Poul M. Schulte-Frankenfeld
Research Assistant
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry
Dilek Keskin
Research Assistant
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Community
Interdisciplinary Forum Neurourbanism e.V.
From knowledge to change: The Interdisciplinary Forum Neurourbanistik e.V. is an association of scientists and practitioners from the fields of psychiatry, urban planning, psychology, neuroscience, architecture, sociology, philosophy, and ethnography.
Together with interdisciplinary partners from politics, society, and administration, we work to bring findings from research into practice. To this end, we organize regular get-togethers and events, publish reports and hold background discussions with responsible people.
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