​Theme 2: Interweaving the Senses The second theme initiates the events beginning Monday, August 19th as the program nears the end of its Stockholm residency. Sensing Light and Color and Atmosphere and Experience are the first topics, explored in lectures and workshops. On Tuesday Moving Boundaries sails—literally, on the night ferry—out of Stockholm Harbor for Finland’s capital and largest city, Helsinki. Over the next three days emotional, material and haptic qualities of light and color are considered in talks by globally-recognized speakers and in workshops and tours. Helsinki provides a rich source of Alvar Aalto’s work, from his house and studio to major commercial and civic designs, where his mastery of what has come to be called “multisensory design” is on full, magnificent display. Moving Boundaries Nordic X ends appropriately on Friday, August 23rd, with Summarizing and Interweaving. Participants will come away from this engaging and inspiring two weeks with a new appreciation for the very fundamentals of inspiring, humane design: light and daylight, time, color, materiality, and atmosphere.