2024 SEGDVoices: Designing Intentional Spaces

Join us for the transformative 2024 SEGD Voices Webinar Series, curated by L’Rai Arthur-Mensah of Local Projects. This year, our focus is on “Respectful Engagement” — a theme that underlines the critical importance of fostering a culture imbued with respect and professionalism. Through this series, gain valuable insights, strategies, and best practices designed to enrich your professional environment.

Whether you’re looking to enhance your team’s dynamics, elevate client interactions, or cultivate a more respectful workplace overall, our expert-led sessions promise to deliver actionable knowledge and inspire positive change. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with thought leaders and peers committed to making respect a cornerstone of professional life.

SEGD Voices: Designing Intentional Spaces will be presented by Maria Papiez, Director of Sustainable Design at EwingCole.

Maria has 20 years of experience in architecture, science, and education. She is a registered architect with degrees in environmental chemistry and biology, and a passion for sustainable design grew from her mutual interest in the built and natural environments. Maria will discuss health and equity (for people and nature) through material choices. Designers have great influence when it comes to the materials we select in our work, and with that comes great responsibility to our fellow humans and all nature. Material lifecycles can have negative impacts on health, so let’s use the frameworks, programs, and certifications that can help us be stewards for all.

Key Take-Aways

1. Salvage and reuse materials, and design for disassembly.
2. Choose local products to support local artisans, community, and economy, all while reducing impact.
3. Go with the Goldilocks Principle: use just the right amount of materials, not too much and not too little.
4. Extra: Start with a few choices – don’t feel like you must do it all at once.

Register now to be part of this essential conversation!