50 possono dare, alla progettazione dei sistemi tecnologici di movimento, un supporto mai immaginato per permettere a piccoli gusci di fare grandi le esperienze umane. * Architetto, fondatore e direttore di TA-Tuning Architecture e di NAAD-Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design presso l’Università IUAV di Venezia, membro del comitato consultivo dell’Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture ANfA di San Diego (CA) per rendere facilmente memorabili i mezzi di spostamento e i loro tragitti nell’architettura, per queste diverse categorie di persone? Come possiamo facilitare orientamento e navigazione, integrando i sistemi meccanici con gli altri percorsi interni ed esterni agli edifici? Oggi le neuroscienze NEUROSCIENZE DI DAVIDE RUZZON* LIFT, forget-me-nots! NEUROSCIENCE, STARTING FROM A POSITIVE IMPRINTING, CAN HELP DESIGN LIFTS IN LINE WITH PEOPLE’S DIFFERENT NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS, CONTRIBUTING TO THE CREATION OF INCLUSIVE AND WELCOMING URBAN ENVIRONMENTS FOR ALL Using mechanical systems to move around inside buildings and means of transport is now a widespread habit. None of us, however, would like to delegate to pain the task of fixing in our memory the experience produced by their use. If emotions can be decisive in consolidating in long-term memory the encounter with a place, we all think it is better to experience positive ones in order to produce this outcome. According to established literature, in fact, memory is always associative. We do not remember the event itself, but the combination of words, images, and bodily sensations, i.e. underlying emotions, or even of a more animal type, such as fear, or social ones such as shame. The space that envelops our bodies is an extension, and as such can produce emotions that our sensory system registers through skin, bones, muscles, eyes, and the whole company of human sensors, and then processes in the brain. What role, then, can a lift take on in putting people together inside its tiny hulls, taking them quickly from one point of a building to another? Beyond speed, perhaps such a small but important hull could also seek to make it easier for users to find their way around buildings. However, the sense of place is linked to the memorisation of routes and events that occur in the development of routes. In order to facilitate this outcome we will have to produce a somatic marker, in other words, to ensure that that particular place, for example, a lift placed there, can stratify a memory of the body, without possibly producing wounds, as I mentioned in the incipit. Technology, a fair awareness of the means, and a little attention to the users, also makes it possible to imagine vertical and horizontal mechanical transport systems, which are capable of keeping track of the places they pass through, of creating narratives that fit within - creating, if they are lacking - other existing ones created by the designers of the buildings. Paying attention to users means understanding how a universal approach to the design of movement systems must extend the term disability when beginning to study their realisation. This is not because people suffering from motor disabilities do not exist. On the contrary, because this must be conceived as a different mode of interaction in space. If we study the profiles of real space users, we easily realise how ANTONIO Damasio, a Californian neuroscientist of Portuguese origin, in one of his crucial books, ‘Descartes’ Error’, explains how emotions, by shaking the body and our entire sensory system, produce a somatic marker that helps to retain memories of experiences in places, and consolidate them over time. An anecdote can help us to clarify, that is, to offer an example of this process. “I will not easily forget that automatic door that just wouldn’t open. I had to get to the next carriage quickly: the one I was in had, in fact, its exit blocked. Loaded with my usual rucksack and shoulder bag, I approached the door to fly towards the exit. Padua station was there at last. It was not finished. Even the inner door didn’t want to open, but I was in a hurry and couldn’t wait. At that point, I put my hand in and forced the opening by pushing hard. The mechanism is activated in a millisecond, dragging my hand into the pocket of the metal panel with the door. A sharp pain. I get off the train, having pulled my fingers out of the slot. On the station platform I look at them, three of them are red and swollen. Nothing broken, fortunately.”
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