People’s relation to nature has been transformative to human civilizations. From haptic experiences, multivalent spiritual and social associations, over the past years the discourse has traversed into statistical and numerical efficiencies. Conflicts and contestations have reached a crisis point, when we confront issues related to climate change, impacts of the built environment on health and human behavior, resource management, and environmental and social sustainability. Over time, our society has been alienated from a fundamental, primordial and essential connection with nature. Many kinds of knowledge systems, networks, and infrastructures have been made invisible. The concept of Spatial Ecology prompts a shift towards design of human habitats that reveal the interconnectedness of relationships that construct our world. Working at the interface and dissolving boundaries between multiple human sciences, including neuro and cognitive science, environmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, landscape design and architecture disciplines, this course intends to unpack these connections, the visible and the invisible, to decipher our intimate connection to the world. As our bodies experience the air, water, land and other life around us, we intend to discover the means by which spaces help us to connect to the rich, diverse knowledge structures around us. The process situates architecture as intrinsic to the negotiation between natural and human. Shifting paradigms, the intention is to disrupt this deeply rooted dichotomy and to position architecture as part of a relational network that emphasizes processes and flows over objects. Grounded in the culture of western India, participants will experience the rich cultural context of the Gujarat region, including the dynamic city of Ahmedabad, which holds many treasured works of architecture and design including those by Balkrishna Doshi, Charles Correa, Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier and many others. Participants will be offered unique tours of work by these architects and will also enjoy a day trip outside the city, to see traditional water systems and temple sites. In addition to modern architecture in Ahmedabad, we will experience ancient mosques, vernacular buildings, markets, local crafts, dance, cuisine, and other rituals and traditions which make this region of India so important. At the heart of these activities, all part of the culturally immersive Moving Boundaries program, the notions of ecology, embodiment and the senses, as central topics, prompt a shift towards design of human habitats that reveal the interconnectedness of relationships that construct our world.