Sierra Bainbridge: Reflecting Communities | Justice by Design Lecture
In 2008, MASS Design Group began a practice of reflexivity and reflection with its first projects in Rwanda. In this Justice by Design lecture, “Reflecting Communities,” Sierra Bainbridge, senior principal at MASS Design Group, shares insight into how the nonprofit design firm creates bespoke solutions with and for the communities it works with in Rwanda, Boston, Poughkeepsie, and Santa Fe.
2023 Rupp Prize Lecture
Sponsored by the College of Environmental Design
About the Speaker
Sierra Bainbridge is a senior principal at MASS, a cross-disciplinary, nonprofit design firm she co-founded in 2008. She is an architect and licensed landscape architect and leads the firm’s climate and conservation work in the United States and Africa. She focuses on reshaping the material and labor supply chains, scaling transdisciplinary, community-based, climate-positive design solutions. Bainbridge pushes each project to affect systems change, specifically working on demonstration projects showing how humans can live within Planetary Boundaries by living closer to nature, increasing biodiversity, restoring habitats, and sequestering carbon emissions through thoughtful and engaged design.
About the Series
Justice by Design is a college-wide lecture series that brings together speakers from across disciplines to address the intersection of social justice and the built environment.
Free + open to the public.
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