Please join Maria MacDonald, the Executive Director of the Center for the Living City and founding faculty member of Marywood University’s School of Architecture for a conversation about the trajectory of the future of Architectural Education as a collaborative endeavor and creative journey into the lab.
The Living City Lab at Marywood University addresses global challenges at a local scale, through an open ecosystem of exploration and innovative applied research shared with other institutions of higher education, and communities and replicated across disciplines. The Living City Lab is rooted in empathic responses that value sustainability and service. It comprises three key components; education [traditional coursework], projects [hands-on experiential learning], and networking [casting a wide net]. In this way, The Living City Lab catalyzes a unique opportunity for the Center for the Living City and Marywood University to co-foster emerging ideas and co-create sustainable processes and infrastructure.
This lecture is sponsored by Marywood University’s School of Architecture and the American Institute of Architects of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
AIA CEU Credit is available for this lecture.
This event is an in-person and virtual—in-person lecture that will be held at Marywood University School of Architecture, Shields Building. Register here for the online stream. Space is limited but the event will be recorded and available on our website and YouTube channel afterward.
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Maria MacDonald, executive director, Center for the living city
Maria MacDonald is the Executive Director of the Center for the Living City, a practicing interior architect, and Program Director of Interior Architecture at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She specializes in adaptive reuse, preservation, and restoration projects.
With over 25 years of experience, she partners her professional practice with her teaching. Throughout her career she has been a team leader for many significant community projects. As an educator her intense focus is on service and community outreach, providing community-based, experiential learning opportunities for her students and the people in the communities where they work.
She is a graduate in both Architecture and Interior Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design where she received the Excellence in Design award for her work on the “Reclamation of Forgotten Spaces.”
Maria is a founding faculty member of Marywood University’s School of Architecture and has served as the Interior Architecture Program Director for the past 15 years. She has steered the program successfully through two full NASAD accreditations.
With her integrative, holistic design approach, she works to strengthen the relationships between the allied design disciplines and the people and environments where we live.
