EXtended MIND models for the design of human environment

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The EMDM EX-MIND Project aims at developing an innovative transnational Master Programme based on the Extended Mind paradigm applied to design. It will integrate architecture, urban planning, neuroscience, cognitive studies, and behavioural economics to train professional students with an innovative vision of the relationship between human mind, behaviours, environment, and designed space. The project was born from a long lasting partnership among Italy (IT), Spain (SP), Slovenia (SI), Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH), Armenia (AM), HEIs already involved in an Erasmus+ TACSEEM project since 2020. This network was extended with some of the European university centres of excellence in neuroscience and behavioural sciences applied to art and culture such as Netherlands (NL), Sweden (SE), Czechia (CZ). The partnership will also involve other under-represented third countries such as Albania (AL). The objectives of the project are: 1) to broaden the background knowledge on extended mind paradigm applied to design by involving the best HEIs working on the topic 2) to develop an innovative training paradigm based on extended mind models applied to Architecture 3) to help the best students to acquire a new mental environment, aimed at designing spaces and processes to stimulate socio-behavioural change. The EMDM EX-MIND project envisions a new university paradigm able to link the disciplines of design to a dynamic of behavioural change necessary to respond to the great themes of complexity (climate mitigation and adaptation, migrations, small city transition, etc.). It will contribute to this vision by connecting all the best HEIs who are working on the topic, through an exploratory analysis and an international conference. A Master test will be also conducted during a Summer School in the city of Pescara. A joint Master Programme and joint administrative procedures will be issued by the end of the project.