Nature Connectedness: Carmen García Sánchez: Space, Time and Imagination.

Biophilic design offers an important and unexplored research field for increasing the human-nature connection. Spanish practicing architect and Postdoc Carmen García Sánchez examines how architectural interior spatial design can capture the outstanding experience of the phenomenon of nature through the analysis of domestic scale buildings built in Denmark and Japan. The architecture demonstrates unique biophilic experiences through sophisticated and original design expressions. Its transformative processes connect the users to the natural settings and reflect fundamental ways humans attach meaning to a place, providing timeless lessons which prevail today.

The lecture is underscored by a photographic narrative of a series of multi-scale spatial sequences unfolding in time in which imaginative experiences of relationships between the natural and built environment take place.

The purpose of this lecture is three-fold: to enrich the audience´s vision of post-war Danish architecture and traditional Japanese architecture, stimulate the interest in Nature-connected architecture through its biophilic design and introduce some scientific perspectives.

Carmen García Sánchez is a Postdoctoral researcher, Marie Skolodowska Curie fellow, at the Institute of Architecture and Design, within the Royal Danish Academy _ Architecture Design Conservation, guest researcher at the research Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen and at School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo. She is an experienced practicing architect and a Ph.D. in Architectural Design MAA from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Her research Nature-In studies exemplary buildings for their interior space connection to nature in Denmark and Japan, to inform us of a sustainable contemporary interior design practice.