Book Discussion on Climate Optimism with Lindsey Wikstrom & Sierra Bainbridge
Sat, Nov 01
|Center for Architecture
Presented by Head Hi in the City, an Archtober pop up at Center for Architecture
Time and Location
Nov 01, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Center for Architecture, 532 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012, USA
About the event
"Is optimism the most radical climate tool we have?"
This conversation brings together architects Lindsey Wikstrom and Sierra Bainbridge, designers, thinkers, and authors who are redefining public space through regeneration, material experimentation, and ecological imagination. Through a discussion of their current thinking and respective books, together Wikstrom and Bainbridge will explore how design can move beyond crisis narratives to cultivate resilience, care, and the possibility of flourishing.
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Sierra Bainbridge and Alan Ricks are with MASS, a design firm that focuses on creating spaces that foster human flourishing while considering the needs of the environment. Their work spans a variety of sectors, including education, healthcare, and conservation, with a commitment to using architecture as a force for positive change.
Seeking Abundance: Design, Ecology and a Flourishing Planet, forthcoming in December 2025, explores regenerative design as a way of building that heals our planet and our communities by halting biodiversity loss,…