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The Treasury Science Program is an initiative to advance the understanding of spatial technology for health, education and social impact, focussing broadly on the human science of digital space. Treasury Science is led by Dr. Julia Scott, Treasury CEO and architect John Manoochehri, and research, design and technology partners.

This is a broad area encompassing natural and social sciences, design professions, and many technology disciplines and applications. The themes of the Science Program are the cognition, design practice, and performance measures of digital spatial assets.

These themes build on learnings from how configuration of physical spatial environments inform cognitive states, and offer starting points for a broad investigation of how physical and digital environments can inform each other, for best performance.

Below are sample questions for further investigation within these themes, which seek to be illustrative rather than exhaustive. Each contribution to the project will seek to elaborate on and report back on questions and work under these and related themes.

Cognition of Digital Space

• How do digital spatial environments inform cognitive states - emotional, embodied, memory, perception and beyond.
• How are physical and digital environments are similar and different with regards to cognitive states, and unique mental constructs for combined domains?

Design Practice for Digital Space

• How does emerging best practice and theory in cognition of digital spaces inform built design research and practice?
• Where can digital environments facilitate live-testing, iteration and collaborative design methods?
• How do wayfinding, navigation, object and agent interaction and association work in digital environments, and can this guide the development of physical spaces?

Performance Measures of Digital Space

• What new measures need to be developed to assess environmental performance of digital space?
• How can performance of digital environments be measured in a multi-dimensional framework?
• How can performance measurement be suitably calibrated?

Activities

• low or no-cost use of Treasury creators' assets in research and social impact contexts
• informal, research-driven discussion and information dissemination

The goal is to support application of spatial technology including but not limited to VR, AR, reality capture and scanning, real-time rendering, photo-real virtualization, and more to issues including mental health, early and formal education, lifelong learning, social development and inclusion, natural environment protection and research, indigenous cultural protection, and related domains and fields of research and social impact.

The Treasury perspective on the technology space in which the research project takes places is developed in the Spatial Computation Thesis .

To explore the spatial calibration environment, visit CalEnv - an interactive 3D tool for parametric room generation and spatial cognition research.

Treasury spatial assets may be made available to researchers, developers and social impact actors at low or zero cost, for the purposes of science, health, education and other social impact, subject to the approval of Treasury, the Treasury scientific advisory panel, and individual creators themselves.

As asset requests and loans are developed on a case by case basis, a specific MoU will be developed for each loan, for further development and contracting as necessary. For more information regarding Asset loan requests, please contact Treasury.