Eve Edelstein

Project at the MaCI

May-December 2026

The project aims to develop an international network that fosters mutual learning and encourages meaningful interdisciplinary exchange. It seeks to explore design practices, cultural contexts, and key architectural elements that can measurably influence health, wellbeing, performance, and outcomes.

A further focus is the role of artificial intelligence in neuro-architectural practice, including the development of innovative tools that translate medical and neuroscientific principles, combined with biosensor and user data, into design strategies that support environments in which everyone can thrive.

The initiative also aims to identify promising areas of research across disciplines and to propose new international research and educational programmes. Finally, it considers pathways for sustainable funding as well as the development of supportive policy frameworks.

The existant partnership with Stanford University School of Medicine provides potential to create a long-term and high impact platform to foster innovative approaches through enhanced understanding of how and why the brain, mind and body respond to built environments, informing research-based practice, policy and new educational programmes.

The development of a Magnet for Health, Medical Humanities & Design will be explored. By bringing together the knowledge and experience of clinicians, scholars and scientists the research hypothesis to be tested asks if the quality of healthcare space is significantly improved when medical practitioners, scientists and patients (‘users’) become involved in architectural design from an early stage and throughout the project. Building on the expertise of collaborators at LabEx Architectures, LabEx CerCoG Brain & Cognition, CHUGA, MaCI, MIAI and others, we may inform the renovation of UGA's healthcare and research facilities.