MOVING BOUNDARIES

WINTER CO URSE – ITALY 2023

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VENICE

December 11 - 19

UMBRÍA

December 20 - 23

These disciplines include neuroscience, neurophenomenology, cognitive science, environmental psychology, health sciences and others.

Grounded in the culture of Venice for 9 days, followed by northern Umbria, Italy for 3 days, participants will experience the rich cultural landscape of both locations and will visit and study the work of Carlo Scarpa and contemporary architects. Venice will be magical in winter, with fewer tourists and more access to local culture and unique neighborhoods.

A field trip will be offered to Treviso, the Brion Cemetery and Gipsoteca Canova by Scarpa, and to Fabrica by Tadao Ando, among other sites. During the last three days, we will live and study in beautiful northern Umbria, in Castello di Solfagnano, located between Perugia and Gubbio. Thirty minutes away is the legendary St.Francis of Assisi Convent, which inspired Louis Kahn. Invited faculty include some of the most distinguished architects, designers, philosophers and scientists in the world.

The elements of architecture are not visual units or gestalt; they are encounters, confrontations that interact with memory.

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin

The course follows the first edition of our traveling workshop in Iberia, which took place in Spain and Portugal in July and August of 2022 and the second edition which took place in Guadalajara, Mexico.

This third edition in Italy will feature several new distinguished faculty members, a deeper investigation of two topics studied in Iberia and Mexico, multiple interactive sessions centered on participants, embodied learning opportunities during tours and sketching workshops in the city, and a focus on teaching practical applications of concepts from human sciences to architectural and interior design.

Participants will have a chance to present work and receive feedback during morning sessions. In addition to learning from the faculty and from one another during lectures and discussions, they will work on optional design exercises, in interdisciplinary small groups.

This course will feature lectures in which an architect or designer will be paired with a scientist, to promote interaction in a dialogical format.

The course is open to architecture and design professionals, including architects, urban planners, landscape architects, interior and product designers, artists, educators, authors, historians, environmental experts, health professionals, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and psychologists, as well as graduate and postdoctoral students in these disciplines.

Every participant will receive a Certificate of Completion at the end of the course.