Summer Course 2024
Moving Boundaries Nordic X
August 12-24 On-Site in Stockholm and Helsinki Design for Health and Wellbeing
4th Edition of the MB Course and Conference in Neuroscience, Environmental Psychology and Architecture features lectures, masterclasses, design workshops and tours.
In the Nordic world of long summer days and equally long winter nights, place shapes space for its greatest architecture. Here, the work of Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz in Sweden and Alvar Aalto in Finland, along with that of contemporary masters, as Juhani Pallasmaa, Juha Leiviska and others, defines a special, humanistic form of Modernism recognized early in the 20th century as a distinct counterpoint to the universality of the International Style. It is an architecture rooted in Nordic traditions and local materials, responsive in a most compelling manner to the unique conditions of daylight near the Arctic Circle and the impacts of seasonal extremes.
It is one of carefully modulated light and of hapticity—truly an architecture of atmosphere, lending itself to investigations psychological, physiological, neural, and biological as well as architectural. This 2024 edition of Moving Boundaries will explore the phenomenon of Nordic Architecture to uncover its paragons, lessons, and inspirations towards a more meaningful—that is to say, humane—architecture and design for the twenty-first century and beyond.
Course Topics include: Multisensory perception in architecture and design; dynamic experience; architectural atmospheres and mood; daylight; emotional, material and haptic qualities of light and color; circadian rhythms; ecology and restorative environments. Lectures are presented in a dialogical format by architects, scientists and biologists. SPEAKERS Malin
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN AUGUST 12 - 20
Ecology of Light in Space
HELSINKI, FINLAND AUGUST 21 - 24
Interweaving of Senses in Design
Summer 2024
Course Conference and Retreat
Tatiana A. Berger Director
Kurt Hunker
Katharina Wulff
Co-Chairs, Professors
Johanna Enger
Ute Besenecker
Jenni Reuter
Hosts
Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Andrea Chiba
Anya Hurlbert
Arne Lowden
David Dorenbaum
Eve Edelstein
Galen Cranz
Jenni Reuter
Johanna Enger
Kate Jeffery Katharina Wulff
Kurt Hunker