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From natural elements, colors, climate changes, population levels, urbanism or architecture, to modern technologies, ecological interconnectedness of humans with the world and their social background. At the first sight, all the mentioned terms might seem very heterogenous and random, but truth is, that they are all elegantly connected by the scientific domain of Envirnomental Psychology. This relatively young psychological discipline was established in the 1960s and has been changing its specific focus over time. However, it is built around one particular question, which is How environment impacts our experience, behaviour and well-being, and in the same time, how do we impact the environment by our activity? By its novelty it is reacting to real and actual topics and thus it is helping us to understand human and the surrounding world. Therefore the goal of our conference is to facilitate the participants the insight to the research and erudite perspective of the leading professionals of the field and open the discussion about actual topics to the field of Psychology.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Let us introduce our speakers who have already confirmed their participation:<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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(Ph.D.) Tony Craig<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Tony Craig is a senior researcher at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen.\u00a0 He is an environmental psychologist whose research focusses on everyday pro-environmental behaviour.\u00a0 He has worked on numerous large-scale research projects focussing on topics including electricity consumption, everyday environmental behaviours in large organisations, community responses to climate change, and the relationship between people and natural environments.\u00a0 His current portfolio of work includes a large project aimed at understanding how to shift the Scottish population to eat a healthier, more environmentally sustainable diet. He is the president of the International Association for People-Environment Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Making time for environmentally friendly behaviour<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

As reports like the recent IPCC report make absolutely clear, the global environmental problems we face as a civilization require people to do things differently. Something needs to change.\u00a0 The status quo (i.e. business as usual thinking) is no longer considered to be a particularly useful way to plan for positive future.\u00a0 However, saying that is one thing, but changing things is quite another.\u00a0 Change at the level of policymaking tends to be frustratingly slow, and often involves a large degree of compromise to balance competing interests.\u00a0 Against this backdrop there is a growing recognition that the everyday life of people \u2013 the stuff that we all do as we muddle along living our lives \u2013 is an extremely important component of this puzzle that has not been given as much attention as it arguably deserves until relatively recently.\u00a0\u00a0 This talk will discuss research focussed on understanding everyday pro-environmental behaviour, with a particular focus on the spatial and temporal contexts in which everyday behaviour occurs.\u00a0 In this modern world where it can sometimes feel like no-one has any time any more, it is important to stop and ask the question, \u201cwhere is the time to behave environmentally going to come from\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

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(Ph.D.) Dak Kopec<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Dak Kopec is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dak has authored several books used by interior design educators including three editions of Environmental Psychology for Design. He is a two-time Polsky Prize winner, is credited with researching, developing and administering the first low residency graduate program focused on designs for human health at the Boston Architectural College, and has been awarded honorary Fellowship to ASID (Hon.FASID).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dak served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii with a joint position in the schools of architecture and medicine, was listed as a Fulbright Specialist, and subsequently served two terms as a Fulbright Reviewer, and was appointed by Governor Neil Abercrombie to the health and planning council. He\u2019s been invited to Costa Rica and Qatar twice to discuss different topics related to health and wellbeing, and to Taiwan to discuss trends toward health and wellbeing. In 2017 Dak won IDEC\u2019s Community Service Award for the design of a group home for people with developmental disabilities and early onset Dementia. Today Dak is calling upon his diverse educational background in Health Sciences, Psychology and Architecture to promote interdisciplinary and person-centered design.<\/span><\/p>\n

Interior Design and Behavioral Outcomes of People with A Developmental Disability<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The environment that surrounds us reflects and informs the way we behave and how we see ourselves. For the person who has a developmental disability, the influences of the surrounding environment can be more profound due to compromises in their cognitive filters. The result is that the person with a developmental disability may amplify or diminish essential raw data obtained from their physical and social environments.<\/p>\n

Factors when developing environments for individuals who suffer from a developmental disability include provisions for basic biological urges, needs for social inclusion, and self-determination. This presentation will demonstrate methods to hinder socially unacceptable biological urges while concurrently providing designed elements that afford maximum self-determination. As natural as it would seem, the physical environment that surrounds a person has a direct relationship to a person\u2019s level of confidence, which then corresponds to levels of socialization. However, self-determination plays a significant role in the formation of the physical surroundings, and consideration for unintended consequences must be a factor for consideration.<\/p>\n

This presentation will demonstrate how biological, social, and environmental factors come together in one environmental design for an organization that provides habilitation day care services to a low-income community of people affected with a developmental disability. This design will demonstrate how the environment can inhibit mal behaviors while complimenting social learning methods for optimal social behaviors.<\/p>\n

Presentation Objectives:<\/p>\n

By the end of this presentation the participants will be able to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Discuss the social needs of a person with a developmental disability.<\/li>\n
  2. Identify factors that impede optimal social integration for a person with a developmental disability.<\/li>\n
  3. Analyze the role of the built environment when providing treatment or services to people affected by a developmental disability.<\/li>\n
  4. Recall specific design measures that can be adapted to complimentary environments that serve people with developmental disabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Identify three reasons why consideration for design should be as part of the rehabilitation and habilitation process for people who have a developmental disability.<\/p>\n

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    (Prof.) Gerhard Reese<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    Gerhard Reese is Professor of Environmental Psychology at the University of Koblenz-Landau in South-West Germany. He studied at the universities of Erfurt, Jena (Germany) and Canterbury (UK), and completed his PhD in 2010. In his research he investigates psychological predictors and barriers of sustainable action as well as the effect of Globalization on our identities and actions.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Responding to Global Challenges \u2013 Identity, Place, and Global Citizenship<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    It is wide consensus that human activity is one of the main reasons for climate change and environmental degradation. A broad literature on psychological factors determining pro-environmental action and support for corresponding policies depicts the various pathways to understanding individuals\u2019 responses to the challenges of a worsening environment. However, many of these approaches tend to underestimate the importance of individuals\u2019 social embeddedness in human groups and global societies. In this talk, I will thus focus on a helpful feature of the human species \u2013 their ability to think, perceive, and act on behalf of groups. Specifically, I will present recent conceptual as well as empirical work on how social identities affect our pro- (and anti-) environmental actions on different levels of identification and culture. Further research provokes the idea of an encapsulating global identity (i.e., global citizenship) as a potential source of sustainable action in a globalized world. Findings will be discussed in the background of their policy implications and their potential role in a systemic analysis of climate change mitigation.<\/p>\n

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    (Prof.) Ricardo Antonio Garc\u00eda Mira<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    Ricardo Garc\u00eda Mira is a Full Professor of Social Psychology at the University of A Coruna, Spain, where he leads the People-Environment Research Group from 1995. He has conducted applied research in environmental issues during the last 25 years. He is also a Visiting Professor (2016-2020) at the Institute for Policy Research of the University of Bath, UK. He was elected as a Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) in 2018, and he was invested Doctor Honoris Causa by the University \u2018Alexandru Ioan Cuza\u2019 of Iasi, Romania, in 2018. Recent finished research: Funded by the European Commission FP7 and Horizon-2020 programmes, he has been the Project Coordinator of the GLAMURS project (2014-2016), as well as the LOCAW project (2011-2013), and a partner of the TRANSIT project (2014-2017). Current research: He is a partner in the European research Consortia: CONNECTING on Nature Based Solutions for Cities, and SMARTEES on Energy Efficiency and Social Innovation. He was the President of the International Association for People-Environment Studies (IAPS) (2014-2018) and he is the current President of the Institute for Psychosocial Research and Studies \u201cXoan Vicente Viqueira\u201d. European Editor of the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. In the last years he was elected a Member of the Parliament of Spain (2015-2019), where he was the Spokesman in the Commission for the Study of Climate Change.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Applied research for sustainability transitions and its influence in policy: The role of environmental psychology<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    The role of Psychology in giving responses to key societal challenges is becoming more widely recognized within the broader field of Environmental Sciences and the study of the impact of climate change in urban societies. A number of research areas have provided very useful conceptual frameworks and methodologies both for better understanding some theoretical aspects of global problems, and for exploring the humanenvironment interactions. This presentation will make an overview about the links between research and policy, as well as the constraints existing for carrying out political action in a context of complexity, analyzing the difficulties to achieve a certain degree of social responsibility. I will also analyze how the field of environmental psychology has evolutioned in Europe, including a reference to some research areas on the experience, meaning and management of the urban space, trying to throw some light for better understanding the nature of relation between applied research and political action. The development of public participation models for decision making in the planning and management of sustainability, the discussion of human factors involved in transitions to sustainable societies, the analysis of environmental risk, and the study of psychological processes involved in spatially and temporally situated human behaviour has been an important theme in our environmental psychology research over the last two decades. By analyzing these different trends in research within a European context, this work intends to give an overview of key developments in sustainability research as well as to highlight some of the important contributions environmental psychologists have made in this context within a framework of transdisciplinary collaboration.<\/p>\n

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    (Dra.) Zenith Nara Costa Delabrida<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    My research focuses on the study of the relation between person-environment, especially the influence of collective environments, public environments, promotion of pro-environmental behavior and social skills. My extension activity focus on rural communities for local development and technology for mental health. My classroom teaching is on methods in psychology and on environmental psychology. Under my supervision I have master students developing proposals to make environmental education a global concept and to make the restorative environment studies inclusive for disable individuals. I am the President of Brazilian Association of Environmental Psychology and Person-Environment Relationships (2018-2021) and I am visting fellow in the University of East Anglia, UK (April-July 2019).<\/span><\/p>\n

    Traditionally in science, you considerer that you know something if you are capable to convince another scientist that you have correctly applied the scientific method. However, another way to prove that you know is testing your knowledge in the real world with practical problems. We will attempt to demonstrate the possibility of application to Environmental Psychology the Lewin\u2019s proposal that the practical appliance of the theoretical concepts make the intervention more capable to achieve results likewise the application of the theoretical concepts can lead to a corroboration or disconfirmation of the theory. On the other hand, to make interventions it is important understand the role of the conception of what the environment is. The literature argues that maybe we are going in the direction of understand that we are environmental in the last point because we are made of water and mineral. When we understand it, it will not necessary anymore think about environmental problems as something separately from us. It will be seen as a gestalt. Sartre said that chose yourself is chose the humanity, we propose that chose the environment is chose ourselves.<\/p>\n

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    (Prof.) Mirilia Bonnes<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    Professor\u00a0of\u00a0 Social and Environmental Psychology, Founder and first Director of Centre for Inter-university Research on Environmental Psychology (CIRPA ) at Sapienza University of\u00a0 Rome. Author of many international scientific publications, including volumes, on several topics of environmental psychology, ranging from architectural psychology to conservation psychology focussed on sustainability issues. Long time Collaborator of UNESCO Program of\u00a0Ecological Sciences, Man and Biosphere(MAB),\u00a0 also as Chair of the Italian MAB Committee. Board Member of several international scientific associations and periodicals, Organizer of several international scientific Meetings, Symposia and Conferences in the domain.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Environmental Psychology: past and present developments<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    The main peculiarities of environmental psychology as a specific research domain of psychology are outlined, by pointing out its historical and geographical roots, its main conceptual frameworks and related research topics, from its early beginning to the present developments. This, by looking at both sides, (i) on one hand, to the psychological tradition - ranging from perception studies to social and ecological psychology - and (ii), on the other hand, to several other environmental sciences and technical fields, outside the psychological domain, ranging from architectural and urban design to bio-ecology and sustainability sciences . The main inputs coming from these various domains, for the developments of the field during these decades, are pointed out; these, ranging from the early and more place-based, architectural psychology to the more recent and ecology-based, psychology for sustainability issues, or conservation psychology. Within these general trends, some peculiarities of the environmental psychology development in Italy, during the last 30 years, are also briefly illustrated and discussed.<\/p>\n

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    (Prof.) Marino Bonaiuto<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    Marino Bonaiuto, Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma. Full Professor Social Psychology (Faculty Medicine and Psychology). Director CIRPA \u2013 Centre Interuniversity Research in Environmental Psychology \u2013 (2011-). President master degree Psychology of communication and marketing (2011-).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Coordination scientific research units in public national (Ministry of Research) or international (EC 6th and 7th FP, H2020) grants, and research projects funded by private companies. 200+ publications (in international or national journals, book's chapters, edited or authored volumes) and 200+ contributions in congresses.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Consultant in environmental and architectural psychology (residences, healthcare, offices, nature, etc.); and previously in work and organizational psychology (selection, assessment, development, organizational behaviours, communication, etc.).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Co-organizer 20th international conference of IAPS (Roma, 2008) and STEP3 summer school (Sardinia, 2015). IAAP Fellow award for environmental psychology (2018).<\/span><\/p>\n

    Understanding environment impacts on people via environmental psychology: three basic principles.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    Aim and Significance: Increasing evidence describes significant instances of urban environment impact on people. The field of environmental psychology aims to systematically study how the places people study, work, heal, and live in can exert crucial effects, by carefully detailing such consequences: from individual\u2019s cognition to her\/his affect and behaviour. By briefly overviewing some of the main projects carried out or still ongoing at CIRPA, as well as examples from broader literature, the aim is to show that when a specific urban place (whether workplace or school, hospital or residential neighbourhood, etc.) improves (vs impoverishes) a urban quality (whether natural, built, functional, social), specific positive<\/p>\n

    (vs negative) consequences derive at various levels, by considering different target users too.<\/p>\n

    Method: The main option is survey, by means of questionnaire and multivariate analyses; in some cases, field or laboratory experiments test specific cause-effects relations.<\/p>\n

    Results: All presented results demonstrate specific effects of urban planning and urbanization features on people well-being: sometimes these effects can be main and direct, some other times they can be mediated and moderated by other variables. A meaningful process and outcome framework for environment\u2019s features and person\u2019s features is proposed on the basis of three main principles characterizing the relevant scientific knowledge. 1) The structure of the environment-person effect: valence, generalizability, set (positive, general, simple vs. negative, relative, cumulative effects). 2) The process of the environment-person effect: direct and indirect (mediated) effects. 3) The timing of the environmentperson effect: short and long-term exposure, with immediate and chronic effects (spill-over and cross-systems). Some examples are offered to illustrate each case, across a range of different methods.<\/p>\n

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    In\u00eas Alves<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    In\u00eas Alves (Portugal, b. 1989) is a London based photographer and has previously completed an MA in Photography at London College of Communication.<\/span>
    \n<\/span>In\u00eas\u2019 photographic practice explores the relationship between people and the space we inhabit. Her work examines the way we behave publicly and socially. It challenges the preconceptions usually expected of us as a community. The street is frequently at the centre of her practice, as a theme and as a location \u2014 it is where we can study the nature of human beings and test their limits.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Aline Barlet<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    Doctor in Environmental Psychology, Aline BARLET has also a Master Degree of Architectural and Urban Acoustic. She teaches the sustainability issue, comfort and atmospheres from the physical and the psychological points of view, at the Higher national school of architecture and landscape of Bordeaux (Ensap-Bx). She is researcher at the GRECCAU Research Group, which she is in charge since 2017. Supervising PhDs on these subject, she participates in more than twenty national and international research projects in the fields of comfort, territorial consultation, sustainability and design. She also works as a private consultant.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Sustainability as principal link between architecture and psychology<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    Why choose after a PhD in environmental psychology to teach and to conduct researches in an architecture school? Perhaps to have a direct impact on users' living spaces, a role in the ecological performance of architectural and urban designs, in sum to feel useful.<\/p>\n

    But, what does environmental psychology bring to future architects and to architecture? It allows, for example, to:<\/p>\n