arts and aesthetics can quite literally rewire your brain. They are a secret sauce that helps build new synaptic connections.

The group canvassed the entire campus, looking for clues old and new about how deaf people already use architecture in an adaptive way. They organized their findings by a series of categories: (1) sensory reach, (2) space and proximity, (3) mobility and proximity, (4) light and color, and (5) acoustics.

Not only do we think with our bodies, we also think with habitat. The qualities of the natural and artificial world inevitably shape our ideas and our creations. Architects and interior designers know full well that people think and feel differently inside various structures. And of course, we experience radical differences in emotion and cognition