288. Alan Ricks & Sierra Bainbridge

About this episode

Jarrett Fuller interviews Alan Ricks and Sierra Bainbridge about their work with MASS and their new book on design and ecology.

Alan Ricks and Sierra Bainbridge are founding members of Model of Architecture Serving Society (MASS). Alan, an architect and co-executive director, and Sierra, director of the Landscape Studio and Abundant Futures Lab, are co-authors of the new book, Seeking Abundance: Design, Ecology, and a Flourishing Planet, that looks at MASS’s work across three projects as examples of multidisciplinary collaboration, regenerative practices, and community engagement. In this conversation, Jarrett talks with Alan and Sierra about MASS’s structure as a non-profit, architecture for the more-than-human, and why design should not be about minimizing harm but rather maximizing abundance. Links from this episode are available at www.scratchingthesurface.fm/288-alan-ricks-sierra-bainbrdige — Help support the show by joining our Substack: surfacepodcast.substack.com

People in this episode

Host: Jarrett Fuller

Guests: Alan Ricks, Sierra Bainbridge

Topics covered

• architecture
• non-profit
• regenerative practices
• community engagement
• multidisciplinary collaboration
• design

Keywords

• architecture
• MASS
• regenerative design
• community
• ecology
• abundance
• collaboration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Model of Architecture Serving Society

Books & works: Seeking Abundance: Design, Ecology, and a Flourishing Planet

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