MOVING BOUNDARIES
HUMAN SCIENCES AND THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE
SPRING PROGRAM AND RETREAT 2025
This spring course offers an intensive 8-day program fostering intersections between disciplines, from architecture and the built environment to sciences focused on human perception and behavior.
The program will feature a series of Lectures and Masterclasses, Workshops, Tours, Dinners, Film Screenings, Poetry Readings, Stone Workshops, Sketching, and more.
Sited in the beautiful rural Minho, the course draws from the Pilgrimage traditions of this region.
‘A pilgrimage is a journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good, through the experience. It can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life.’
The course is open to architects, urban, interior and product designers, historians, anthropologists, health and environmental experts, psychologists, cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, educators, as well as graduate and postdoctoral students in these fields.
“New discoveries in biological and related sciences provide evidence that the built environment impacts our health in multiple ways.
Moving Boundaries supports research and education, seeking to disseminate this new understanding of ethical design, from a humanistic perspective.”
Berger - Architect, Founder and Director of MB
SANTA MARIA DO BOURO
Pousada Amares, Portugal
Restored by Eduardo Souto de Moura
FIELD TRIP
Porto March 25
March 22 - 25
Embodiment, Sensory Experience, Emotion and Atmospheres
March 27 - 30
Placemaking and Culture, Ecology and Healthy Environments
Experience this magical and vibrant city, its downtown, Ribeira and Foz districts - a unique landscape where the Douro River meets the Atlantic.
Visit Mosteiro Leça do Balio
Open Sculpture by Álvaro Siza Serralves Museum by Álvaro Siza Casa da Arquitectura, Matosinhos
FACULTY
Andrea Chiba
Andréa de Paiva
David Dorenbaum
Francesca Ferroni
Galen Cranz
Giovanna Colombetti
Itai Palti
Luis Othón Villegas-Solis
Raymond Richard Neutra
Tatiana Berger
PARTICIPANTS
Alba Méndez
Alejandra Diaz
Alina Osnaga
Annette Bajema
Antonia Pellegrini
Ashlie Boelkins
Azuka Odiah
Barbara Lamprecht
Bijal Mehta
Brian Feagans
Camila Ruiz Figari
Christine Bruckner
Daniela Coppola
Erika Ashauer
Gladys Maestre
Heather Luke
Ioana Pieleanu
Jason Farina
Jill Snyder
Julie Rucker
Karolina Kovarova
Kornelius Reutter
Lucia Vaz Pato
Maria Claudia Faro
Martina Van Schoote
Mary Anne Bifulco
Mazlina Mazlan
Nicolette Watson
Nuria Munoz
Oleg Raspopov
Omar Oropeza
Paige Ragan
Pamela Ospina
Pedro Araújo Napoleão
Rebecca Fairman
Renata Koglin
Sachiko Kiyooka
Sam Gosling
Sara Borelli
Teresa Ribeiro
Tina Georgieva
Tuwanda Green
Valentina Fesenko
William Dodge
Yelena McLane
Yohany Albornoz
DEDICATED TO Álvaro Siza Vieira
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Kenneth Frampton
SUPPORTING FACULTY
Andrea Schmidt
Júlia de Oliveira Rosa
Kate Mishchenko
Luis Carlos Bucha
Mark Rego
Sophie Schuller
ADVISORS
Gladys Maestre
Ioana Pieleanu
Jill Snyder
Martina Van Schoote
Yelena McLane
REMOTE ADVISORS
Juhani Pallasmaa
Kurt Hunker
Sarah Robinson