It is my pleasure to talk with Andrea Chiba, a behavioral neuroscientist and professor at the University of California San Diego. She co-founded the Global Science of Learning Education Network and was the founding Science Director for the NSF Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, an NSF Science of Learning Center. She began her career as a high school mathematics teacher. We reflect on dynamic systems, amnesia, the extended mind, the importance of rhythm and music in the learning process and life, on new metaphors for thinking through science and much, much more.

For this episode, it is my pleasure to talk with Jenny Roe, a renowned environmental psychologist, who is also a practising landscape architect. Jenny is a Professor and Director of the Center for Design & Health in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. Our conversation ranges from our innate fascination with fractal patterns and curvilinear forms, our special resonance of wood, Aino and Alvar Aalto and human scale, tactility, urban acupuncture events, micro-green spaces, blue spaces, to the acoustics of rain, murals and other essential features of urban restorative environments.

For this episode I have the pleasure of talking with the neuroscientist Kate Jeffery, who is an expert on the hippocampus, the area of the brain that specialises in memory and place. We discuss how memory is closely connected to the imagination, and the constitutive role that place plays in forming memories. We talk about the kind of memory that extends through our bodies in the form of muscular memory, and about the possibility of a different way of doing science.

In this inaugural episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Juhani Pallasmaa, who is perhaps the most influential architectural thinker of our time. His longstanding insistence on designing for all of the senses, his celebration of the genius of the human hand, and the importance of the mythical imagination--have spoken to generations of architects throughout the world. We discuss his childhood influences, the power of the elements of fire, water, air and earth to evoke deep feeling, ponder the meaning of form and much more . . .

Situated is hosted by Sarah Robinson, architect, writer and educator whose books, Nesting: body, dwelling mind, Mind in Architecture and Architecture is a Verb have been among the first works to explore the interconnections between architecture and the cognitive sciences. For more information about her work visit www.srarchitect.com.

This podcast is produced by Massimo Bazzurro

Music is "Sentiment" by Laura Anserra