Gathering #1
Natalie Telewiak, Architect AIBC, AIA, Principal, MGA l Michael Green Architecture
With an education in both architecture and engineering, Natalie’s approach to design is rooted in material logic, collaboration, and connection. As a Principal at MGA since 2018, she leads and inspires her team to deliver elegant solutions that marry structure, systems, manufacturing, and architecture.
MGA has been recognized with countless international awards for design excellence, including the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Firm of the Year, Architizer’s Best in North America Firm Award, four Governor General’s Medals, two RAIC Innovation Awards and the American Institute of Architects Innovation Award.
In our ‘city of glass’, there's an architecture firm quietly revolutionizing how the entire world thinks about building, all the while showing Silicon Valley giants and European innovators how to build the impossible.
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Michael Tippett, Generation Studios
Michael Tippett is an entrepreneur working at the intersection of media, technology, and artificial intelligence. He co-founded NowPublic.com, pioneering citizen journalism with 300,000 contributors worldwide and earning two Emmy nominations before its acquisition by AEG.
After leading innovation at Hootsuite and Later.com, Tippett launched Generation Studios, which applies AI to documentary filmmaking. The platform enables families to create personalized historical films by combining genealogical records with AI-generated imagery, making professional storytelling accessible to a broader audience.
Those working at the frontier of AI and creativity see these tools as catalysts for new forms of expression, while others see them as an imminent threat. The implications extend far beyond entertainment, potentially reshaping how we communicate, preserve culture, and understand ourselves.”
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Robin Kort, Chef, Sommelier, Forager
In a lifetime of cooking on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations near Vancouver, BC, Chef Robin has learned to gather and prepare an abundance of delicious local plants, wild mushrooms and fresh seafood into her culinary repertoire.
Her passion is sharing her collected research with you, connecting the dots from wilderness to plate and revealing delicious secrets from the forest to sea. Her advice is to gently follow the seasons and harvest what is offered freshest each month; shoots leaves in spring, summer seaweeds, flowers, fish and fruit, fall roots and mushrooms, winter seafood. Take the utmost care to pick only what is abundant, share what you gather and leave the rest for other beasts.
While global supply chains grow more complex, these hyperlocal approaches remind us that some of our most valuable food resources might be growing right outside our doors.
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