Marilyne Andersen at the MIT Fall 2023 Architecture Lecture Series
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Marilyne Andersen was invited to give a lecture as Distinguished Speaker to the MIT Architecture Lecture Series called “Shifting Grounds”, focusing on the impact of daylight on human inhabitants of the built environment, with a particular emphasis on its psycho-physiological effects.
Her talk, entitled "Daylightful indoors – beyond what eyes can see" and delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on October 5, 2023, discussed the dangers of an increasingly prevalent disconnection from natural light in urban living, the recent advances in research on understanding its effects and the ways in which architecture can play a role in mitigating it.
Marilyne Andersen was also invited to give talks on similar topics at Northwestern University on October 3 – a talk jointly hosted by the Center for Circadian & Sleep Medicine of the Feinberg School of Medicine and by the Architectural Engineering program of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at NWU – and on October 4 at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, as part of the IIT College of Architecture’s 2023 Fall Lecture Series.