the maze-like traditionally is a very
two-dimensional experience the atrium at
the National Building Museum has the
scale of an urban square with a
colonnade around it and we thought we
really wanted to explore the third
dimension the senses are bombarded with
more experiences than in the traditional
maze when you enter and when you’re
close to the periphery you will like
walking in these like very narrow
canyons but the closer you get to the
center the lower the the walls around
you become mazes are quite literally
explored in landscape architecture so in
gardens the hedge mazes but very rarely
in in building architecture mazes exists
to challenge our navigational skills for
us mammals the hippocampus seems to play
a critical role in a kind of learning
that has to do with a human or an
animal’s cognitive map of its
environment and we build that cognitive
map to allow us to navigate through our
surroundings the hippocampus actually I
think operates sort of in two modes in
one mode it’s learning a maze we can
call that acquisition so it’s keeping
track of the new spatial landmarks what
they possibly mean and then there’s a
another mode of the hippocampus which
you can think of it’s the readout phase
so the hippocampus is actually
automatically reading out the correct
solution to the maze so even a maze
that’s on a piece of paper if it’s done
well can be challenging because it’s
sheer complexity forces us to actually
keep track of many calculations at the
same time as we seek to navigate the
maze so we’re pretty plastic in terms of
our behavior and I think that’s probably
because we’re pretty complex organisms
but a rodent actually has simple
responses and one of the most basics on
a why maze was that if it’s gone down
one arm then next time it’s gonna go
down the other arm then it will
alternate back and forth if they have
the campuses disrupted that alternation
is disrupted
an animal that is not allowed to explore
its environment in a proper way is not
going to have a brain that’s wired up
correctly you think the hippocampus is
cranking open and allowing a child to
navigate and explore its environment
because that’s crucial to the rest of
the rewiring of the brain as a ghost
redevelopment obviously the maze is not
that difficult when you’re drawing it in
plan with a pin I mean we could see on
the the models we built that it was
going to look amazing it was gonna have
like these like we had warped geometries
around you but we couldn’t really figure
out if it was gonna be like too
confusing or not confusing enough so
when I walked through it the first time
I was like really happily reassured or
relieved that we actually did he had
lost quite a few times
two-dimensional experience the atrium at
the National Building Museum has the
scale of an urban square with a
colonnade around it and we thought we
really wanted to explore the third
dimension the senses are bombarded with
more experiences than in the traditional
maze when you enter and when you’re
close to the periphery you will like
walking in these like very narrow
canyons but the closer you get to the
center the lower the the walls around
you become mazes are quite literally
explored in landscape architecture so in
gardens the hedge mazes but very rarely
in in building architecture mazes exists
to challenge our navigational skills for
us mammals the hippocampus seems to play
a critical role in a kind of learning
that has to do with a human or an
animal’s cognitive map of its
environment and we build that cognitive
map to allow us to navigate through our
surroundings the hippocampus actually I
think operates sort of in two modes in
one mode it’s learning a maze we can
call that acquisition so it’s keeping
track of the new spatial landmarks what
they possibly mean and then there’s a
another mode of the hippocampus which
you can think of it’s the readout phase
so the hippocampus is actually
automatically reading out the correct
solution to the maze so even a maze
that’s on a piece of paper if it’s done
well can be challenging because it’s
sheer complexity forces us to actually
keep track of many calculations at the
same time as we seek to navigate the
maze so we’re pretty plastic in terms of
our behavior and I think that’s probably
because we’re pretty complex organisms
but a rodent actually has simple
responses and one of the most basics on
a why maze was that if it’s gone down
one arm then next time it’s gonna go
down the other arm then it will
alternate back and forth if they have
the campuses disrupted that alternation
is disrupted
an animal that is not allowed to explore
its environment in a proper way is not
going to have a brain that’s wired up
correctly you think the hippocampus is
cranking open and allowing a child to
navigate and explore its environment
because that’s crucial to the rest of
the rewiring of the brain as a ghost
redevelopment obviously the maze is not
that difficult when you’re drawing it in
plan with a pin I mean we could see on
the the models we built that it was
going to look amazing it was gonna have
like these like we had warped geometries
around you but we couldn’t really figure
out if it was gonna be like too
confusing or not confusing enough so
when I walked through it the first time
I was like really happily reassured or
relieved that we actually did he had
lost quite a few times
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