"We want to encourage encounters with visual experimentation at an international level," Ms. Peláez Álvarez said.
The latest philosophy in the West is to make physics buildings like irregular little mazes with blackboards and couches around every other corner, to encourage encounters and collaboration.
Open offices and an open galleria extend through the length of the building, and enclaves for impromptu meetings will encourage encounters, discussion and collaboration.
The data used to plan coincide virtually and physically to encourage encounters and open innovation.
Gleaming staircases snake up to the uppermost floors, encouraging chance encounters between scientists and – it is hoped – new collaborations.
"We were all separated in our different departmental islands before, but this building is about bringing people together and encouraging chance encounters.
Located on primary routes between the campus and the medical center, the building acts as a social magnet encouraging chance encounters and informal meetings between lecturers, researchers and students from diverse academic backgrounds.
Students are encouraged to encounter, and debate critically, themes such as the relationship between global and local processes, unity and diversity in human life, the social treatment of the body, gender, personhood, ethnic identities and stereotyping of the "other".
"A religion that demands individual moral accountability and encourages the encounter of the individual with God is fully compatible with the rights and responsibilities of self-government". The words were striking in the context of 25 years of tensions between the United States and various Islamic movements.
The more I work with singers the more I understand that this process of removing barriers and veils and encouraging direct personal encounter also applies to the audience.
