MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2024 . 11.30 AM
TATIANA BERGER
Director
Accomplished architect, professor, and design-health consultant. Founder and Director of MB Collaborative, renowned for her innovative collaborations in design and her pioneering role in reimagining design education.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2024 . 12.00 PM
GALEN CRANZ
Distinguished designer, consultant and professor at UC Berkeley, renowned for her work in Body Conscious Design and her several books, blending her expertise in design, sociology and other human sciences.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2024 . 4PM
SATCHIDANANDA PANDA
Award-winning professor and researcher at the Salk Institute in California with expertise in circadian regulation of behavior and metabolism. ANFA Board Member and author of “The Circadian Code” and other books.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2024 . 11.30 AM
EVE EDELSTEIN
Award-winning neuroarchitect, researcher and consultant, co-founder of Clinicians for Design, known for her pioneering work on impact of the built environment on the human senses.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2024 . 10.00 AM
KURT HUNKER
Co-Chair of Architecture
Architect, FAIA in San Diego, President of ANFA, award-winning educator, practicing architect and co-founder of one of the first educational programs in neuroscience for architecture in the world.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2024 . 10.00 AM
JOHAN ÖRN
Published author and architectural historian, preservationist and critic. Educator at KTH and curator at Sweden’s National Center of Architecture and Design.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2024 . 11.30 AM
UTE BESENECKER
Host
Pioneering interdisciplinary researcher and educator at KTH Stockholm, working at the interface of architecture, lighting design and human sciences.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2024 . 12.30 PM
KATHARINA WULFF
Co-Chair of Science
Distinguished expert in human behavioral chronobiology, professor at Umea University leading groundbreaking research to illuminate impacts of sleep and circadian rhythms in challenging environments.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2024 . 12.00 PM
JUHANI PALLASMAA
Pallasmaa is a leading international figure in contemporary architecture, design and art culture. Finnish architect, educator, critic and Professor Emeritus at Aalto University, he has influenced generations of architects and researchers around the world.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2024 . 12.00 PM
TIM INGOLD
Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Ingold is a distinguished scholar and widely-published author exploring environment, anthropology, culture and human perception.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2024 . 4 PM
MARK ALAN HEWITT
Renowned architect, Hewitt FAIA, is also a craftsman and historian, who merges research in cognitive science, design and drawing in his pioneering practice and education. Hewitt’s book “Draw in Order to See” has influenced thousands of designers around the world.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2024 . 10.00 AM
JENNY ROE
Professor at the University of Virginia, is a leading figure in health-centered design, advocating for restorative urban environments.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2024 . 6.00 PM
ALBERTO PÉREZ-GÓMEZ
One of the world’s most influential architects and scholars, his writings about architectural phenomenology have shaped architectural discourse for decades. Perez-Gomez is Professor Emeritus at McGill University in Montreal, theorist, and renowned author.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2024 . 9.30 AM
JENNI REUTER
A leading award-winning architect and builder, Reuter is also Associate Professor of Architecture and Theory at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Her work in Africa and many other sites has been widely published internationally.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2024 . 11.00AM
KATE JEFFERY
Neuroscientist and Head of School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow, she investigates brain mechanisms underlying navigation and memory and human experience of space. Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and Royal Institute of Navigation.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2024 . 1PM
SARAH ROBINSON
Renowned architect, philosopher, author and educator whose writing and research are concerned with the many ways the built environment shapes body, mind and culture. She created the first works to engage the groundbreaking dialogue between design and the cognitive sciences.
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