Social Design Insights

Our Special Projects Director Eric J. Cesal is a designer, writer, noted post-disaster expert, and podcast host.

Dr. Ken Yeang is a Malaysian architect and ecologist delivering and pioneering the field of hyper-green architecture.

Alex Steffen is an award-winning writer, speaker and foresight consultant, focused on climate change and planetary sustainability.

Bruce King, PE, natural building advocate, joins us to discuss his new book “The New Carbon Architecture: Building to Cool the Planet”

Mary Ann Lazarus is an American architect and longtime leader in the field of sustainable design.

Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism.

Dr. Kian Goh, RA, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She researches the relationships between urban ecological design, spatial politics, and social mobilization in the context...

Eric Corey Freed award-winning American architect, author, speaker and green strategist, joins us to talk about the state of the union in green design.

Rania Qawasma of Architecture for Refugees joins us to discuss what designers can do to help welcome refugees.

Anna Meddaugh is an American designer who developed a personal, reusable urinal designed for women and girls in refugee camps to use at night when it is too dangerous to go to the communal toilets....