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Moving Boundaries Amares Spring Course, 2025

Terms and Conditions

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DELIVERY POLICY

 

Last updated December 2024

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Moving Boundaries offers educational services in the form of an intensive eight-day spring course. Services will be delivered from 22 March 2025 to 30 March 2025, at the Pousada Santa Maria do Bouro, near Amares, Portugal.  

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Services include: all lectures; masterclasses; roundtable discussions; workshops; field trip; social events with faculty. Services do Not include payments for architecture tours which are charged by independent providers (although MB will coordinate these tours and will book them, for all). 

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Course topics include: Embodiment, Multisensory Perception, Emotion; Placemaking and Culture. Topics are covered in six distinct sessions. 

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Participants agree that the arrangements and expenses for travel, lodging, visa or passport expenses, car rental and/or car hire, and meals are their responsibility, including travel to Portugal, and every fee for hotel (or Airbnb) reservation and accommodation, including incidentals and any damages. Breakfast will be included with the room rate charged by Pestana hotel company. 

 

Participants also agree that they are responsible for booking (with Pestana) and paying for their room at the Pousada, or at another location.  

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Delivery of educational services is the sole responsibility of Moving Boundaries, which includes inviting the teaching faculty, organizing the schedule and curriculum of the course, securing teaching facilities, providing transportation for the field trip on March 25 (but not on March 26), providing a Certificate of Completion to each participant, and selecting the manner of presentation of educational materials. MB also provides one complimentary dinner, on the first night of the spring course on March 22. 

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While the dates and location of the course will not change, the schedule of planned activities and composition of the faculty are subject to change. Accordingly, Moving Boundaries is entitled to modify the schedule and the content of the course mentioned herein, which will be communicated to participants by email. 

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As a condition for attending the course, participants will be required to send a valid proof of a "negative" Covid test (may be a self-test) to Moving Boundaries by email on March 21, before the course begins. This information will be confidential. No one testing positive for Covid will be allowed to attend the course, including faculty, until he or she again tests negative, however long this may take. If a participant or faculty member feels unwell (and/or tests positive for Covid) during the course, they must notify an MB team member or the Director immediately, via email or text. 

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It is the responsibility of each participant to ensure that they are allowed to enter both Portugal. If necessary, Moving Boundaries will provide proof of enrollment to help students secure entry documents. We strongly encourage securing a Visa well ahead of time, as the process can be lengthy and complicated. All participants who require a Visa are encouraged by MB to apply for all needed documents no later than November, 2024.  

 

REFUND POLICY 

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Last updated  December 2024 

 

Participants agree to pay a nonrefundable deposit of $480 to secure their reservation in the course. The remaining tuition ($820 for students or $1,320 for professionals) must be paid in order to be fully enrolled in the course, to confirm lodging with Pestana, and to receive access to a student assistant and to course resources. In case participants fail to pay the remaining tuition until the date communicated by email, we cannot  guarantee that their reservation in the course will be preserved. If we do not hear from the participant by January 10, 2025 and if the remaining tuition is not received, the participant's name shall be moved to a "Wait List" from the "Enrollment List". 

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To qualify for student discount, students will be required to present proof of their full-time student status. The proof could be a picture of student ID or a letter from the University. Additionally, students will be required to send an email to tatiana@movingboundaries.org from their University email account.

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In case the 2025 course is cancelled, because of the pandemic, climate emergency or other unforeseen circumstances, tuition will be carried over to the following year. Participants will have their reservation guaranteed for the next course in 2025 or 2026. However, the schedule of activities and lectures will be subject to change. 

 

Moving Boundaries staff ask all participants to be sure that they will attend the course, before submitting their deposit and tuition payments. Deposits and tuition are not refundable. These terms are clearly outlined in the email communications from MB. In case a medical emergency arises before the start of the course, and in case the participant cannot secure a Visa in time, the option to transfer to the next MB course (without losing any funds) will be offered. All tuition money can be transferred to the next course, with no penalty, but only in case of emergency or issues with the Visa. 
 

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CONTACT US

Please write to us at tatiana@movingboundaries.org if you have questions or comments.

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