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Katie Swenson on Design the Future podcast

  • 1.  Katie Swenson on Design the Future podcast

    Posted 11-23-2020 09:50 AM
    Edited by April Ovens 12-11-2020 04:16 PM
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    Architect and affordable housing expert Katie Swenson is a fierce advocate for love as a design force that helps communities lift everyone. She is also the latest guest on the #DesigntheFuture podcast for Acuity Brands' #WomeninSustainability platform. Katie joined MASS Design Group early this year. She told me and Lindsay Baker that she has always thought of herself as a "community architect." 


    While Katie was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard GSD, she asked: "What role do love and kindness play in urban design?" Love is also at the core of Katie's two new books (Schiffer Publishing, 2020). In Bohemia: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Kindness, which Katie wrote following the death of her partner, is also about architecture, history, and home. Design with Love: At Home in America, chronicles the work of the Enterprise Community Partners Rose Fellowship, uplifting these collaborations. 


    Listen here or find us on your favorite podcast platform: https://lucidconnects.com/women-in-sustainability

    Thank you to our tireless producers: Acuity Brands, Karen Doss Becker, and Morgan Phelps.

    #womeningreen #femaleleadership



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