Overview
Overview
Program
PROGRAM AND ROSTER OF SPEAKERS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
December 20th
VENICE - FLORENCE - PERUGIA
Monday, December 11
Aula Magna Silvio Trentin at Ca' Dolfin, Ca' Foscari
8:40
10:00
11:00
12:00
12:30
2:00
4:00
5:00
6:00
6:30
7:45
Check-in at Ca' Dolfin between 8:40 - 9:40; Visit Scarpa's Aula Baratto 8:40-9:00 or 9:00-9:20;
Coffee (free) at Veniceats.
MB Program Begins: Opening Remarks
Sarah Robinson
Luminosity, Resonance and Depth in the work of Carlo Scarpa
Break
Andrea Chiba, followed by Q&A
The Dynamics of Experience in Places
Lunch with Team (Introductions)
Thomas Albright
Lecture Title TBD
Davide Ruzzon
Architecture Houses Human Habits, Emotions, and Memory Consolidation
Break
Discussion, moderated by Vittorio Gallese
Welcome Dinner (complimentary)
Celebration in Venice
Tuesday, December 12
Sala Goldoni at Don Orione Cultural Center
Dorsoduro
9:00
9:30
10:40
2:00
3:15
4:15
5:15
6:00
7:30
Arrive at Don Orione (Sala Goldoni)
Guido Pietropoli
Carlo Scarpa as Educator
Depart Don Orione for Visit to Querini Stampalia by Carlo Scarpa
between 11:15am - 1:15pm (see tour schedules for your time slot)
Lunch - Walk back 1:20 - 1:50pm
Tobia Scarpa (trans.F.Businaro)
Lecture
Break and Presentations in foyer
Alberto Pérez-Gómez (remote)
The Compass of Architecture
Q&A Discussion
Discussion in teams
Dinner
Wednesday, December 13
Sala Goldoni at Don Orione Cultural Center
Dorsoduro
9:00
10:00
11:00
11:15
12:15
2:00
4:00
5:00
6:00
6:30
7:30
Coffee/Poster Presentations
Tim Ingold
The Earth, the Sky and the Ground Between
Break
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Can Place Attachment be Designed?
Q&A Discussion
Lunch
Vittorio Gallese
Embodied Simulation and a New Take on the Relationship between Perception, Action and
Imagination
Andrea Pinotti
Being Here While Being There: The Experience of Space and the Challenge of Immersive
and Emersive Technologies
Break
Q&A Discussion, moderated by Sarah Robinson
Dinner
Theme 1: Perception and Behavior
The architectural profession needs to bring the full-blooded human being into its very core. We will face this challenge using a new perspective that emerges in the rapidly evolving collaboration between architecture and the human sciences. We will investigate the theme of experience of place through several lenses, in particular those of phenomenology and neuroscience of perception by a moving person. We will study how places shape one’s behavior and how experiences arise in the interaction of sensory and motor systems of the person, focusing on tactile, acoustic and resonant qualities of space. Lectures about perception and imagination, haptics and memory, peripersonal space and embodiment will inform design applications. We will also discuss how ideas about movement and time can help to develop new strategies for architectural and urban design.
Thursday, December 14
Morning: Outside in the city
Afternoon: Palazzo Michiel: Workshop 1 and Team Meetings
10:00
12:00
-2:00
4:00
4:30
6:00
6:30
7:30
Meet outside Negozio Olivetti showroom. Visits to Negozio Olivetti by Carlo Scarpa between 10:00am-12:00pm (see tour schedule for your time slot)
Sketching in Venice and Lunch
Team Discussions in Piazza San Marco
Free Time: Recommended visits
include San Michele cemetery, Museo Correr, etc.
Coffee at Palazzo Michiel
Workshop 1
Group 1 Chiba, Berger, Ferroni
Group 2 Goldhagen, Robinson
Break
Small Team Meetings
Dinner
Friday, December 15
FREE DAY
Saturday, December 16
FIELD TRIP and tours in Treviso Region
Work by Carlo Scarpa and Tadao Ando
Everyone will travel by train (self-organized) to Treviso, to meet the tour buses there.
8:45
or 9:45
9:45 - 12:00
12:00-1:30
3:30
7:30
8:00
Meet at Treviso Station,
Board tour buses (2 groups). Bus 1 will leave Treviso at 9:00. Bus 2 will leave Treviso at 10:00.
Visit Tomba Brion (Cemetery)
Gipsoteca
Canova, by Carlo Scarpa
(staggered visits in small groups)
Lunch and Free Time
Visit Fabrica, by Tadao Ando
Winter Party at Fabrica
Depart Fabrica in 2 buses
Return to Treviso Station
Sunday, December 17
Palazzo Michiel (all day)
9:00
10:00
11:00
11:30
12:30
2:00
4:00
4:30
6:00
6:30
7:30
Coffee/Poster Presentations
Francesca Ferroni
Space or Place? A Look at Architecture from Within
Q&A
Juhani Pallasmaa (remote)
The Ethical and Existential Meaning of Beauty
Alvaro Siza Vieira - Response
Q&A Discussion, moderated by Sarah Robinson
Lunch
Meet for Workshop
Workshop 2
Group 1 Goldhagen, Robinson
Group 2 Berger, Ferroni
Break
Small Team Meetings
Dinner
Monday, December 18
Aula Magna Silvio Trentin at Ca' Dolfin,
Ca' Foscari
9:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
2:00
4:00
4:30
5:00
5:30
6:00
7:30
Coffee/Poster Presentations
Cleo Valentine, followed by Q&A
Architectural Neuroimmunology: Examining the Impact of the Built Environment on Human Physiology
Discussion moderated by David
Kirsh
Break and Team Discussion
Lunch
Lectures by Supporting Faculty
Ludovica Gregori
Sofia Boarino
Ana Karen Angulo (Remote)
Break
Q&A Discussion
Dinner
Tuesday, December 19
Morning: Aula Magna Silvio Trentin at Ca' Dolfin, Ca' Foscari
Afternoon: Palazzo Michiel: Workshop 3
9:00
10:00
11:00
11:30
12:00
12:40
1:00
2:00
4:00
4:15
6:00
Coffee/Poster Presentations
Renato Bocchi
On the Importance of Immaterial Factors in Architecture
Q&A Discussion
Break
Lectures by Supporting Faculty
Valentina Rizzi
Andrea de Paiva
Q&A Discussion
Lunch
Meet in Palazzo Michiel
Workshop3
Group 1: Bocchi, Valentine
Group 2: Free Time in Venice
Early Dinner (and pack)
Wednesday, December 20
9:26 or 10:26
4:14
or
6:14
Take train at 9:26 or 10:26am from Venezia S.Lucia station to Firenze S.Maria Novella station - Get your own ticket ahead of time
Self-organized: You may reserve luggage storage in Florence here:
https://www.stowyourbags.com/en/shop/florence/luggage-storage-florence-train-station/
Lunch in Florence
Time to explore Florence
Take train from Florence to Perugia Ponte San Giovanni station, then transfer to hotel (Note: buses will transfer all participants who take these 2 trains)
Make sure to get your own ticket well ahead of time. These are smaller trains, which may sell out!
(Optional) Stay overnight in Florence: self-organized by those who need more time in the city
Theme 2: Atmosphere and Mood
The concept of architectural atmosphere blends sensory and emotive aspects of experience. We will investigate how architectural atmospheres are created by the interaction of seeing, hearing, haptics, and olfaction, and also the senses that register one's own posture, balance, and movement. We will also study the intricate relationship between emotions, mood and cognitive faculties, and how this relationship is fundamental to experiencing special atmospheres which arise in architectural spaces. The study of atmosphere will allow us to investigate how insights from the objective, third-person perspective of the sciences can be integrated into design. In the final days, we will explore how architectural atmosphere and mood can be captured by different methods of architectural representation and how notions of spatial attunement and embodiment can dramatically alter our approach to design education and practice.
The 3rd 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 Professors Sarah Robinson (Chair-Professor of Architecture) and Vittorio Gallese (Chair-Professor of Neuroscience) 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.
Grounded in the culture of Venice for 9 days, followed by northern Umbria, Italy for 3 days, participants will experience the rich cultural landscape of both locations and will visit and study the work of Carlo Scarpa and contemporary architects. Venice will be magical in winter, with fewer tourists and more access to local culture and unique neighborhoods. A field trip will be offered to Brion Cemetery and other works by Scarpa, and to work by Tadao Ando. Invited faculty include some of the most distinguished architects, designers, philosophers and scientists in the world. Tobia Scarpa, architect, professor and son of Carlo Scarpa, will join us in person.
The course is open to architecture and design professionals, including architects, urban planners, landscape architects, interior and product designers, artists, educators, authors, historians, environmental experts, health professionals, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and psychologists, as well as graduate and postdoctoral students in these disciplines. Every participant will receive a Certificate of Completion at the end of the course.
“The elements of architecture are not visual units or gestalt; they are encounters, confrontations that interact with memory.”
- Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin
Thursday, December 21
Castello di Solfagnano, Umbria
8:30
9:30
10:45
12:00
12:30
2:30
4:30
6:00
7:30
Coffee/Poster Presentations
David Kirsh
Science of Architectural Atmosphere
Discussion and Q&A
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Researching Neuroarchitectural
Design Aesthetics
Discussion and Q&A
Break
Workshop 4
Group 1: Canepa, Milesi
Group 2: Bocchi, Valentine
Lunch in Castello
Alberto Pérez-Gómez (remote)
In Quest of Attuned Architectural Atmospheres: Contributions of Enactive Cognitive Theory and Neurophenomenology
Q&A Discussion
Free Time
Dinner (Perugia city center)
Friday, December 22
Castello di Solfagnano, Umbria
9:00
10:00
11:00
11:30
12:00
2:00
3:15
4:00
6:00
8:00
Coffee/Poster Presentations
Satchin Panda
Optimizing Built Environment to Nurture Health and Enhance Mood
Discussion and Q&A
Break
Elisabetta Canepa
Architectural Atmospheres: Experimenting Phenomenology and Neuroscience
Discussion and Q&A
Lunch at Castello
Bus transfer to Gubbio
Workshops with Local Craftsmen Stone - Iron - Ceramics
Museum of Arts and Crafts Walking Tour - Traditional Music Show
Dinner (Gubbio City Center)
Saturday, December 23
Castello di Solfagnano, Umbria
9:00
10:00
11:00
11:30
12:00
12:45
2:00
4:30
Coffee
Edoardo Milesi
Beauty and Creativity
Q&A Discussion
Break
Lectures by Supporting Faculty
Maria Chiara Monacelli
Arkar Hein (remote)
Farewell Lunch (complimentary) and Ceremony: Certificates of Completion at Castello di Solfagnano
Program Ends - Free Time
Transfers to Perugia Train Station
(time of transfers to be announced)
Aula Magna Trentin at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Ca' Foscari University of Venice is a public university in Venice. Since its foundation in 1868, it has been housed in the Venetian Gothic palace of Ca' Foscari, from which it takes its name. The palace stands on the Grand Canal, between the Rialto and San Marco, in the sestiere of Dorsoduro.
Founded on August 6, 1868 as the “Scuola Superiore di Commercio” (Advanced School for Commerce), Ca' Foscari was the first Italian institution to deal with advanced education in Business and Economics. The original main office is still found in the grand gothic palace “volta de canal” (on the bend of the Grand Canal), in the heart of Venice.
Ca’ Foscari offers its venues, true historical, artistic, cultural and architectural “gems” in the heart of Venice, to external bodies and institutions. The Ca' Dolfin, in which some of our lectures will happen is the ideal setting for cultural, scientific and teaching events.
The Aula Magna Silvio Trentin in Ca' Dolfin is a spacious sixteenth-century hall located on the first floor of the palace bearing the same name. It is a grand and captivating space, adorned with ceilings and walls featuring frescoes in the style of Tiepolo's school, medallions with allegorical figures, Murano chandeliers, and mirrors. Once, the hall housed ten historical-themed canvases by Giambattista Tiepolo, which are now exhibited at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Visit unive.it
Sala Goldoni at Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli
This center originated in 1423 as the Convent of the Gesuati, a community of lay friars dedicated to caring for the sick. They were called Gesuati due to their frequent invocation of the name of Jesus. In the late 15th century, they began the construction of the church of "Santa Maria della Visitazione."
In 1669, the Convent and the Church were acquired by the Dominican Fathers, who, with the increasing number of followers, felt the need for a new temple. The architectural design was entrusted to Giorgio Massari, and in 1726, construction work commenced on the new Church, which was dedicated to "Santa Maria del Rosario." After the completion of the works, the valuable artworks from the former Church of the Gesuati were transferred to the new church. The former church was transformed into a public library, housing the precious book collection donated by Apostolo Zeno in 1750.
In a nostalgic ambiance, you can discover spaces for cultural gatherings and hospitality within a renovated ancient convent equipped with modern technologies. The Center accommodates groups, individuals, and families, providing them with the opportunity to stay in a private and serene environment in the historic center of Venice, just behind the Gallerie dell'Accademia. It also offers direct views of the Zattere promenade along the Giudecca Canal.
The entire complex revolves around three 18th-century cloisters and a 15th-century cloister, which houses the Church of Santa Maria della Visitazione. With its vastness, architectural beauty, gardens, and peacefulness, it represents an oasis within the city. Here, even the surroundings speak, creating an atmosphere that evokes emotions.
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Palazzo Michiel
Moving Boundaries is very grateful to Archos and Professor Edoardo Milesi (and to management of Palazzo Michiel) for this beautiful space and teaching venue. Palazzo Michiel is a historical Venetian palace situated at the northeast side of the Canal Grande, in the Cannaregio district. The palazzo has its entrance on the Strada
Nuova—the busy and essential pedestrian axis that links Venice Station to the Rialto Area—nearby the Campo Santi Apostoli; it is
6 minutes to the Rialto Bridge and 4 minutes from the Ca’ d’Oro bus-boat stop.
Palazzo Michiel’s façade dates back to the 15th century and is an example traditional Venetian gothic palace structure with a four arches polifora balcony (a mutiple-window opening). The rest of the palace, including the interior rooms and the water entrance were entirely refurbished in the baroque. In the main ballroom
one can find the frescoes of Jacopo Guarana decorating the ceiling. This location hosts the headquarters of ECC-Italy and is also used for special events.
Visit ecc-italy.eu
