Nature-In on display at the Osaka World Expo 2025!
- Carmen García Sánchez
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BLOGPOST: CARMEN GARCIA SANCHEZ / DATE 09.06.2024
Danish architect Knud Friis' house in Brabrand © Carmen García Sánchez
Kenroku-en garden 兼六園 , Kanazawa (Japan) © Carmen García Sánchez
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art by Vilhelm Wohlert and Jørgen Bo in Hellebæk Denmark (1958). © Carmen García Sánchez.
I could not be more excited to announce that I will be presenting my MSCA EU-funded research project, Nature-In, at the Osaka World Expo 2025. My participation will bridge Europe and Japan through science in architectural design.
After being selected by the European Research Executive Agency (REA), I will open the dedicated "Health and Wellbeing Week " with a series of seminars entitled "Nature Connectedness: How can Home Design improve our Health and Wellbeing?" for two days in the auditorium of the European Pavilion at Expo site. This outreach activity will allow me to present part of my individual research Nature-In carried out at the Royal Danish Academy of Architecture, Design, and Conservation, Institute of Architecture and Design, in Copenhagen.
The aim is threefold: to enrich participants´ vision of Japanese architecture, to stimulate interest in scientific perspectives on nature-connecting architecture and its benefits, and to give some tips on how to improve health and well-being through home design.
Architectural spatial design can improve our health and well-being by enhancing our experience of connection with Nature. Through an artistic immersion and open discussion, we will explore how some traditional and contemporary buildings in Japan offer exemplary sensory experiences of Nature connectedness, sometimes without visual contact with the natural world. These are profound lessons for our time that can easily be applied in domestic spaces.
The aim is threefold: to enrich participants´ vision of Japanese architecture, to stimulate interest in scientific perspectives on nature-connecting architecture and its benefits, and to give some tips on how to improve health and well-being through home design.
I am honoured to count on Associate Professor Dr. Architect Ryo Murata-sensei from Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo), Department of Architecture and Building Engineering, as a guest speaker.
Activity details:
Venue: European Union Pavilion, Osaka World Expo site
Language: English and Japanese
Dates: 20 and 21 June.
Focused on the 17 UN´s Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)
Fully funded by EU’s H2020 R&I programme
under the MSCA grant agreement 896651
and the Erasmus + teachers exchange
programme. The present action reflects only
the author’s view and it does not engage
in any way the views of the European Commission
Additional acknowledgement to the Danmarks
Grundforskningsfond / The Danish National Research
Foundation DNRF138 for their continuous support.