DIRECTOR

Mary is an award-winning director, writer, television producer, independent filmmaker and New York Times bestselling author. She produced Becoming Helen Keller, Prairie to Page: Laura Ingall’s Wilder, and directed Harper Lee: From Mockingbird to Watchman, all broadcast on PBS American Masters. Her documentary television credits include The Making of the Wiz Live (NBC, 2015), David Letterman: A Life on Television (CBS, 2015), The Making of Peter Pan Live (NBC, 2014), Live From Space (National Geographic, March 2014) and The Making of the Sound of Music Live, (NBC, 2013). She has written and produced a variety of primetime hour-long programs and magazine stories for NBC and CBS News, where she won six Emmy Awards.

ARCHITECT, WRITER

Sarah is an architect, writer and educator. Her books, Nesting: Body, Dwelling Mind (2011), Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment and the Future of Design with Juhani Pallasmaa (2015) and Architecture is Verb, (2021) are among the first works to engage the dialogue between architecture and the cognitive sciences. She was the founding president of the Frank Lloyd Wright school of architecture board of governors. She is adjunct professor in Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark, teaches and is a member of the scientific board of NAAD, Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design at IUAV, Venice. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, and is the Architecture chair of the Moving Boundaries Collaborative.

WRITER, EDUCATOR

Sarah Williams Goldhagen is the author of the prizewinning Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives, (2017), writes and speaks internationally about human experience in architecture and landscapes, cities and urban design, infrastructure and public art. The opening night keynote speaker for the 2018 AIA National Convention, she is on the faculty of the Moving Boundaries Collaborative, a Board Member of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA), and Advisory Committee member of the Johns Hopkins Medical School’s International Arts + Mind Lab. She was the New Republic’s architecture critic, and taught for a decade at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

RESEARCHER , ADVISOR, PHD CANDIDATE

Sophie Schuller, a Neurophysiology Researcher specialising in the Built Environment, is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the Technical University of Eindhoven. Sophie’s research explores the impact of office design on neurophysiological stress and cognition, considering the mediating role of sensory perception. Her research encompasses the convergence of architecture, sensory perception, cognitive neuroscience, stress physiology, and the history of work and the city. Sophie's advisory expertise extends to understanding how urban systems influence society and public health.
Despite her architectural focus, Sophie approaches her research through the lens of Commercial Real Estate Development, examining the industries' role in shaping human experiences within buildings and cities. With over 18 years of experience in consulting, finance, and research.
Sophie holds an MSc in Neuroscience from King’s College London, an MBA from London Business School, a BSc in Urbanism and a CFA.  Sophie is a sought-after speaker at global conferences on real estate, construction, design, and the built environment. She has authored and contributed to numerous papers, articles, and books, recently collaborating with The Royal Institute of British Architects on a book on the future of work and workplace, 'Reworking the Workplace'

ARCHITECT

Kate Mishchenko is an architect, she graduated from Moscow School of Architecture MARCH, and has a double Bachelor’s degree at MARCH and London Metropolitan University. During her studies she spent a year in London as an exchange student, took part in Compostela summer school organized by Compostela Architecture institute and other international workshops.
Originally from Russia, she is now living in Spain where she pursues her studies in a Master’s program at Barcelona School of Architecture ETSAB of Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.
On her way to a deeper understanding of human interaction with the built environment, Kate joined Moving Boundaries course teams in Iberia and Mexico.
Before starting her career in architecture, Kate obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and worked as a consultant and a project manager.