I'm not sure how you mean "space." Insofar as different geometries allow novel mathematical formalisms, you don't need cognitive science to make that point, as it's been plainly evident in the physical sciences.

However, I can offer my own stab at recent attempts to research novel cognitive structures at the single-human-participant scale. Please see file attached.

Best wishes,

Damian

Hey Damian,

thank you for your answer, I will have a look into your file!

I am looking into the design of architectural and interior spaces and if there is any literature in the field of cognitive science that supports the idea of knowledge creation through environmental influences. I would like to know if there is any research similar to the file attached.

Best wishes,

Frederik

I cannot remember literature on the topic, but I know by experience and have read that visual experiences help develop thinking models and strategies. Vision is an extension of the brain, so, it's no wonder that the link exists. Sensory depravation environments have been conceived as a form of torture that finally destroys your capacity to think straight. Conversely, it follow that rich visual experiences might help feed brain strategies. Think of a man that all his life is facing a bookcase: quite likely he will organize his ideas in shelves, or in a cartesian double entry model. I could go on for a long time on this, but I guess you get the gist. I will appreciate it if you find something of the sort in cognitive psychology and pass the info back to me. Best regards, Jorge

Hi Damian,

I would first recommend Bob Weisberg's 2006 book (Creativity: How..) and also his article on an architect of note (attached file). There are lots of other authors in this area but Weisberg's book is the best place to start in my opinion.

Chris

I would recommend: Douglas, J. W. (2009). Teamology: The construction and Organization of Effective Teams.

Best,

Juan P. García-Cifuentes

I found very interesting evidences and models based on some old and recognized Memory and Learning models -  in the articles in attach. But if you look Yingxu Wang' s works, you can find papers about environment/behavior and learning (I have not seen all...yet)

Article Unveiling the Cognitive Mechanisms of Eyes: The Visual Senso...

Article A layered reference model of the brain (LRMB)

Dear Velina,

thank you for your contribution, the papers you have attached seem to be very promising! I will have a look into Yingxu Wang's work!

Thank you

I wrote a chapter that may be relevant: Kaufmann, G., & Runco, M. A. (2009). Knowledge management and the management of creativity. In T. Rickard, M. A. Runco, & S. Moger (Eds.), Companion to creativity and innovation (pp. 149-159).  United Kingdom: Routledge. I think other chapters in the same volume may be relevant, too, and I know the citations in Kaufmann and Runco are relevant because we started off by describing knowledge creation and innovation.

I found the chapter that addresses this topic but only have a pre-print (a Word doc). 

Please write me at [email protected]   if you would like that pre-print, on knowledge creation and innovation. It is from a 2011 book so you could do that instead--Rickards, Moger, & Runco (Eds.), the Routledge Companion to Innovation, I believe. 

Hi Fredrik - this is what comes to mind reading your question:

Inner Space Outer Space and the knowledge in between.

Every person, every house, every living organ, every planet, has an inner and outer space and the knowledge that this create in between. What does all this mean?

Take a home – a simple family home – it has an inner space and an outer space – like a garden or neighborhood.  Everything that have been experienced in those spaces is part of the knowledge that been created there and in its turn it influence those who live inside that inner space or outer space and those spaces influence one another of course. See the growing interest in Epigenetics and how it influencing our health and behavior more than our gens…

Not really congnitive scince but space-time disucssed here --> Spatio-temporal processes of knowledge creation by Johanna Hautala, Jussi S. Jauhiainen

Research Policy 05/2014

Hey Jussi,

that sounds very interesting, I will send you a request for the full text! 

An NCBI PubMed search query for "knowledge creation" currently returns over 2200 papers/ reviews bearing that tag, of which 725 are Open Access;

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=knowledge+creation

Use the controls on the left to filter/ unfilter.

It's a true rag-bag, but you never can tell what you'll find that's relevant.

Thank you Richard, I will have a look to fing out if anything is suitable for my research!

Hi Frederik, 

Here is a reference from Teresa Amabile. If you search for "work environment and creativity", an easy way is with google scolar, you will find many references that could guide you up to your exact topic.

Amabile, T. M., Conti, R., Coon, H., Lazenby, J., & Herron, M. (1996). Assessing the work environment for creativity. Academy of management journal, 39(5), 1154-1184.

The best for your search,

Pierre