Join us for a webinar on how the built environment influences health with Ali Heshmati!
The light around us shapes the rhythms within us. This webinar explores how the built environment influences human health through light’s effect on the circadian system. Drawing from neuroscience and architectural research, Heshmati will present evidence on how light impacts sleep, alertness, mood, cognitive performance, and overall well-being.
At the heart of Heshmati’s current research lies the exploration of the consequential impact of the built environment on human health. This groundbreaking work, which he has coined as “Biometric Architecture,” seeks to uncover the physiological markers that reveal the influence of architectural spaces on human physical and emotional well-being. This multidisciplinary research, between architecture and neuroscience, seeks to gather quantitative neurobiological evidence or biomarkers for the impact of built environment on people.
We will discuss why current standards may not be sufficient to support circadian health, and what this means for architects, designers, planners, and others shaping our environments. The talk offers practical insights into how design can support the body’s internal clock—promoting healthier, more responsive spaces for living, healing, learning, and work.
The presentation is based on Heshmati’s ongoing doctoral research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) where he investigates the impact of light in the built environment on human rhythms synchronizes to daily cycles of light and dark in the environment – “photoentrainment” – using circadian biomarkers as key measures of health and performance.
[Tickets for this talk are free but please book in advance to avoid disappointment.]