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.
MB Global Symposium
and Course in Japan
Hosted at Kyoto Seika University
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Spaces are limited. Submit $180 deposit to register: Kyoto MB Program August 3-7.
Spaces are limited. Submit $180 deposit to register: Kyoto MB Program October 12-16.
We have opened the 2nd phase of enrollment for Moving Boundaries Japan. We are preparing for Editions 7 and 8 in Kyoto, Japan after hosting 6 MB Programs around the world between 2022 and 2026. You may register for one of these programs: August 3-7 or October 12-16, 2026 in Kyoto.
The program extends for four more days on the Art Islands of Teshima and Naoshima, but only 6 spots remain open now on the Islands for August 8-12. The second part (Oct.16-20) is currently sold out in October. Register for one of the Kyoto 5-day programs (select either August or October program), and then ask us if you can join the Wait List for the extension on the Art Islands. Note: It is more affordable to join only the Kyoto 5-day program. Questions? Email: info@movingboundaries.org
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.
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 12 distinguished experts from human sciences, health disciplines, architecture, philosophy, psychology, 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. Together we learn how to design for human health and flourishing.
Lectures
Masterclasses
Panel Discussions
Hands-On Experiences
Architecture
Tours
Cultural Immersion
Networking Sessions
Social Events with Faculty
Present Your Work
MB Japan Preview of August and October Programs - Video Under Construction Please check back later
“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
“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
“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
