The 4th Edition of Moving Boundaries: Human Sciences and the Future of Architecture, directed by Tatiana Berger, Architect and Professor (ANFA Advisory Council Member and Director of ACE) , and Co-Chaired by Architect and Professor Kurt Hunker, FAIA and ANFA President (Chair-Professor of Architecture)  and by Scientist and Professor Katharina Wulff (Chair-Professor of Science), offers an intensive 12-day course in the interface between disciplines concerned with design of the built environment and scientific disciplines concerned with human perception and behavior. These disciplines include neuroscience, neurophenomenology, cognitive science, environmental psychology, health sciences and others. The course/conference will run from August 12-24, 2024 at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and at Aalto University in Espoo/Helsinki. Hosts in Stockholm are Johanna Enger, Senior Lecturer at Konstfack and Ute Besenecker, Assistant Professor at KTH. Host at Aalto University is Jenni Reuter, Professor of Architecture. 

Grounded in the culture of Stockholm for 9 days, followed by Helsinki, Finland for 3 days, participants will experience the rich cultural landscape of both locations and will visit and study the work of Gunnar Asplund, Sigurd Lewerenz, Alvar Aalto and contemporary architects such as Juhani Pallasmaa and Juha Leiviska. A field trip will be offered outside of Stockholm and we will experience works by architects noted above, in Stockholm and Helsinki. Invited faculty include some of the most distinguished architects, environmental psychologists, lighting and interior designers, philosophers, cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, ecologists, anthropologists, sociologists and health experts in the world. 

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In the Nordic world of long summer days and equally long winter nights, place shapes space for its greatest architecture. Here, the work of Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz in Sweden and Alvar Aalto in Finland, along with that of their contemporaries, defined a special, humanistic form of Modernism recognized early in the 20th century as a distinct counterpoint to the universality of the International Style. It is an architecture rooted in Nordic traditions and local materials, responsive in a most compelling manner to the unique conditions of daylight near the Arctic Circle and the impacts of seasonal extremes. It is one of carefully modulated light and of hapticity—truly an architecture of atmosphere, lending itself to investigations psychological, physiological, neural and biological as well as architectural. This 2024 edition of Moving Boundaries will explore the phenomenon of Nordic Architecture to uncover its paragons, lessons and inspirations towards a more meaningful—that is to say, humane—architecture and design for the twenty-first century and beyond.​