Cultural Sparks is back with the activity ‘the student room’, which will take place throughout November at the Faculty of Teacher Training and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, as well as at the University School of Nursing and the Bal y Gay Residence.
The Faculty of Teacher Training at the Lugo campus will host the first event of this programme on Monday, 2 November, at 16:00. Subsequent activities will be held at the Bal y Gay Residence on 10 November, the University School of Nursing on 19 November, and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine on 25 November.
As a complementary activity, a workshop titled 'Your student room' will allow students to modify their own 'student room'. This workshop is scheduled for 30 November from 20:00 to 22:00 in the Press Room of the Pazo de Montenegro, and registration is required via email at cultura.lugo@usc.gal.
The aim of this new edition of Cultural Sparks is to enhance students' perceptions of the built environments they inhabit, drawing on theories from neuroarchitecture, neuroaesthetics, and psychohabitation. The latter, developed by Mónica Alonso, is a discipline that engages with established fields such as environmental psychology, neuroarchitecture, neuroaesthetics, and the phenomenology of habitation.
While these disciplines provide evidence about the impact of physical space on perception, emotions, cognition, and human behaviour, psychohabitation seeks to broaden this perspective by incorporating the biographical and symbolic dimensions of the experience of inhabiting. “Spaces not only condition our well-being or behaviour in the present but also store traces of our life history, identity, emotional relationships, and personal change processes,” the organisers of the activity stated.
From this viewpoint, each inhabited space serves as a stage of memory and meaning that can be explored as a source of self-knowledge, allowing individuals to understand how ongoing interaction with the built environment shapes their identity throughout life.
