Overview
Overview
We are an international and multidisciplinary movement committed to creating spaces that support human life.
Through collaborative work, we nurture a vibrant community of scientists, architects, and designers dedicated to exploring how built environments influence perception, behavior, health, and the collective experience of place.
With 2 editions happening, one in August and other in October, MB Japan 2026 will be set between the historic city of Kyoto and the Art Islands of Teshima and Naoshima. This 10-day global symposium and course invites participants to explore life-centered architecture and landscape design through an immersive dialogue between science, design, culture, and place. Through lectures, masterclasses, hands-on workshops, and guided field experiences, participants will engage with temples, shrines, Zen gardens, and contemporary architectural works, including museums and churches by Tadao Ando. The program brings together an international faculty of experts from human sciences, health disciplines, architecture, philosophy, and urban and landscape design, alongside a diverse, multidisciplinary group of participants from over 35 countries with a shared passion for the built environment and a desire to change the way we work.
2
Editions
10
Days/each
12
Lectures/each
8
Tours/each
MB Japan August Program Preview
MB Japan October Program Preview
Moving Boundaries 2026 Programs - Preview
“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
