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5 Spots are Open Until December 1 - Join the course and retreat in neuroscience, cognitive science, environmental psychology for architecture and design in beautiful Northern Portugal this March 22-30. Email movingboundaries2024@gmail.com to apply or send a private message this week. More details: www.movingboundaries.org

Interesting article on neurophysiological and emotional responses to changes in lighting levels, in a simulated office environment 💡

From our friends and partners at EDRA! Highly recommended: The Environmental Design Research Association would like to invite the research and design community to an upcoming webinar on September 19th at 1 PM Eastern: “Wisdom from Great Places: The Journey of Book Award-Winning Authors.” This webinar is free and open to EDRA members and non-members alike. It will feature our 2024 Great Places Book Award winners, Dr. Galen Newman (Texas A&M) and Dr. Vikas Mehta (University of Cincinnati) speaking about their journeys researching and writing two amazing books: “Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Innovative Global Solutions” by Dr. Newman and “Public Space: notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potential.” We invite Moving Boundaries alumni, faculty, team and all friends. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ec7dJAuw

Moving Boundaries Summer Course and Conference: Human Sciences and the Future of Architecture and Lighting Design Starting in one month: www.movingboundaries.org This August: View Lectures, Discussions and Q&A from Stockholm and Helsinki, remotely. We will be livestreaming 16 lectures. You can get a ticket for lectures and Q&A on August 12,13 and 14, on Aug.21,22 and 23 or for all six days. Free access to video recordings for three months, if you are unable to join any of these sessions live. We have MB at Work tickets, which will give three colleagues access as well. Join us remotely. https://lnkd.in/e2fZKQr7

8 New spots just opened up for Moving Boundaries Nordic X - Summer Course in Stockholm and Helsinki, August 12-23. Attend in person. TO APPLY- Please email before June 24: movingboundaries2024@gmail.com With us will be: Juhani Pallasmaa, Sarah Robinson, Galen Cranz, Jenny Roe, ANFA President Kurt Hunker, neuroscientists Kate Jeffery, Andrea Chiba, Anya Hurlbert and chronobiologist Katharina Wulff, Mark Alan Hewitt, expert on architectural atmospheres Tonino Griffero, lighting designers/educators Johanna Enger, Ute Besenecker and many more (all with us in person). Lectures/masterclasses, hands-on workshops, design for health practical exercises, tours to see work by Lewerenz, Asplund and multiple buildings by Alvar Aalto, field trip in the archipelago and to Turrel's Skyspace, dinner in Helsinki with Pallasmaa. 112 participants have signed up to attend from 40 countries.

We are nearly finished enrolling participants for the Moving Boundaries Course and Retreat in Spring 2025: Environmental psychologists, architects, health professionals, interior and lighting designers, historians, sociologists, artists and landscape architects...educators and graduate students/postdocs are invited to apply to join the Think Tank in beautiful rural Amares, wine region of Portugal for March 22-30, 2025. We have been asked to extend the application deadline until June 1. There are four spots left. Due to popular demand, we have added lodging in the second location nearby, a mountain Pousada (luxury) Hotel, Pousada Geres. Join us at the 8-day Moving Boundaries Course and Retreat, a one-time only event where we will collaborate on publication of a Manifesto for Science-Informed Design for Human Health and Wellbeing, with foreword by Juhani Pallasmaa. We are proud to announce that Dr.Raymond Neutra, Director of the renowned Neutra Foundation and son of Architect Richard Neutra will be one of 9 faculty members joining the MB Think Tank in person. All attendees will have a chance to present, debate, participate in lively social events, poetry readings, film showings, special dinners, tours of stone workshops and architecture of Alvaro Siza and Souto de Moura in the Minho region, and of course the usual MB presentations, workshops and craft sessions, along with communal exercise and yoga, and field trips to Minho and the great city of Porto, all included. While many of our participants are Moving Boundaries Alumni, you do not have to be an alum to apply. We invite you to join the family at this unique event where all boundaries will be taken down in a truly collaborative setting, where for the first time, we will live, work and enjoy the retreat together for the full 8 days. Apply here before June 1, or until the last four spots are taken. We invite you to join us. Details: https://lnkd.in/eP45Q3Yy

We miss all of our MB Italy participants. What a great visit last December to the project created by Carlo Scarpa in Brion. Thank you to our expert, Guido Pietropoli for the tour! Wonderful memories.

A very nice and interesting paper from the lab of Hugo Spiers, at UCL, by Nils Nyberg, looking at how goal-direction may influence 'place cells' with the mammalian brain. For anyone who is joining the Nordic X programme, Kate Jeffery, also from UCL, will be joining. Kate Jeffery is a neuroscientist and expert in how the hippocampus and associated structures', underlies our sense of direction and place, through the production of 'cognitive maps'. 

Join remotely: Moving Boundaries Nordic X - August 12-23 www.movingboundaries.org https://lnkd.in/g8tFBrkn