Measuring Human Experience in the Built Environment Workshop

How do people actually experience the spaces we design?

For decades, architecture and urban design have relied largely on intuition, precedent, and aesthetic judgment to shape the environments where people live, work, heal, and learn. While these instincts remain valuable, they are no longer enough on their own. Today, new scientific tools and interdisciplinary research are making it possible to understand how people actually experience space — emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally.

This shift is giving rise to a new norm: data-informed, human-centered design.

The Measuring Human Experience in Architecture workshop invites participants to explore this transition firsthand. Over four immersive days in Calgary, participants will step inside a collaborative experiment that bridges architecture, neuroscience, environmental psychology, and real-world practice. Rather than simply hearing about research methods, participants will engage directly with them, learning how to ask better questions about the environments we design and how to translate human responses into meaningful insights.

The workshop is supported by scientific guidance from the Center for Environmental Neuroscience (CEN) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

4-Day Workshop

June 1–4, 2026

DIALOG Calgary Office

If you’re involved in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and urban planning, or roles focused on research, strategy, and user experience this workshop is for you.

For more information or to register click HERE