Azure’s Human/Nature 2025 Conference is coming up on October 29-30 at the Evergreen Brick Works. Each year Human/Nature brings together architects, landscape architects, designers, students, educators, business leaders, city planners, and more to explore climate-conscious design. The conference features panels, workshops and keynotes with the goal of accelerating climate action through design.
This year’s conference showcases a range of programming, offering attendees new insights into how to integrate climate-conscious design thinking into their own practices. From a panel discussing how interiors can contribute to climate adaptation to a workshop exploring how Indigenous knowledge, biomimicry, and regenerative urban design can inform more respectful and resilient responses to the climate crisis, Human/Nature invites participants to examine new ways architecture and design can be harnessed to respond to urgent challenges through sustainability, social impact, and creativity.
Human/Nature 2025 will also feature a number of DesignTO alumni including:
- Stanley Sun, Co-founder of Mason Studio (The Invisible Tide, 2025; Nourish: Connecting through Dumplings, 2024)
- Natasha Lebel, Founding Partner of Lebel & Bouliane; former DesignTO Board Chair
- Brigitte Shim, Co-founder of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects (How Do You Design A Feeling?, 2023)
- Bruno Weber, Partner at KPMB Architects (Creative Conversations: City Building and Democratic Design, 2022)
- Lauren Goodman, lead designer and founder of Studio Lauren Goodman (DesignTO Symposium: Trash Talk, 2023)
They will be joined by past DesignTO exhibitors and speakers including Heather Dubbeldam, Johanna Hurme, Ralph Giannone, Michelle Xuereb, Brent Raymond, and more — making Human/Nature a true convergence of DesignTO’s extended creative community.
Don’t miss your chance to contribute to the conversation shaping the future of design and combatting climate change.
Human/Nature
October 29-30, 2025
Evergreen Brick Works
550 Bayview Avenue Toronto
