Overview
Overview
We are an international and multidisciplinary community
committed to creating spaces that support human life.
Through collaborative work, we nurture a vibrant community of scientists, architects, health professionals and designers dedicated to exploring how built environments influence perception, behavior, health, and the collective experience of place.
Together with our 550+ alumni, 75 expert faculty and over 12,000 followers around the globe we are committed to design and education for human and environmental health. The shift to ethical, life-centered and salutogenic design is here. Join the movement.
MB Global Symposium
and Course in Japan
Join MB Japan next year!
Nov. 23 - Dec. 2, 2027
The two programs in Japan this year both sold out. Register early for MB Japan 2027, while there are still open spaces. Enrollment begins on November 8, 2026.
Present your work. Abstracts can be submitted as early as January 2027, but please register first. This course and retreat will run during Thanksgiving break in the U.S.
Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Sociology and Environmental Psychology applied to Design Architecture and Urban Planning
Join MB Japan in person next year. Special extended edition. Select Part 1 or the full course.
The MB Global Symposium and Course in neuroscience and environmental psychology applied to architecture and design invites participants to explore life-centered architecture and landscape design through an immersive dialogue between science, design, culture, and place.
We proudly announce the next Moving Boundaries Japan Course which will run from November 23 - December 2, 2027. You can register for Part 1, from November 23 - 27 or for the full course until December 2. Course locations include Kyoto, the Art Islands Teshima and Naoshima, and the Kobe/Osaka region in Japan. The program will include two free days and a 2-day field trip to the Art Islands featuring visits to multiple art museums and free time near the sea.
Through lectures, masterclasses, hands-on experiences, networking sessions, panel discussions, reflection in small groups, cultural immersion and guided tours and field experiences, participants will engage with temples, shrines, Zen gardens, and contemporary architectural works, including spaces designed by Tadao Ando.
The program brings together an international faculty of 8 distinguished experts from human sciences, health disciplines, architecture, philosophy, psychology, urban and landscape design, alongside a diverse, multidisciplinary group of participants from around the world with a shared passion for the built environment and a desire to change the way we work. Together we learn how to design for human health and flourishing.
Questions? Email: info@movingboundaries.org
Lectures
Masterclasses
Panel Discussions
Hands-On Experiences
Architecture
Tours
Cultural Immersion
Networking Sessions
Social Events with Faculty
Present Your Work
MB Japan August and October Programs
“This course was life-changing. It created an incredible sense of community and belonging. A group of talented people came together, passionate and determined to revolutionize the way architecture is created.”
– Moving Boundaries Participant 2025
“Moving Boundaries was the most impressive and enjoyable conference that I ever attended, in terms of both content and ambiance."
– Juhani Pallasmaa
“The elements of architecture are not visual units or gestalt; they are encounters, confrontations that interact with memory."
– Juhani Pallasmaa
“Placing its emphasis on the human being, Moving Boundaries promotes architecture freed from the obsessions of personal styles, driven by a quest for beauty, a reconciliation with nature, social justice and the
common good."
– Alberto Pérez-Gómez
“Moving Boundaries was an incredible opportunity to attend lectures by scientists, architects and authors whom I have always treasured. Listening to them present their work, that I had read before so many times, brought many unexpected insights - indeed a remarkable experience!”
– Moving Boundaries Participant 2024
“Modern man has no unified worldview. He lives in a double world, at once in his own naturally given environment and in a world created for him by modern natural science, based on the principle of mathematical laws governing nature. It is understandable that thinkers and philosophers have often attempted somehow to overcome [this disunion], yet they have generally gone about this in a way generally meant to eliminate one of the two terms, to logically reduce one to the other, to present one—usually on the basis of causal argument—as a consequence and a component of the other.”
– Jan Patočka
