Alan Ricks | Flourishing Together: How Design Can Help People and the Planet Thrive
Drawing on 15 years of nonprofit practice, Alan Ricks, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of MASS, reflects on how architecture can move beyond scarcity thinking toward abundance, creating places that foster well-being, belonging, dignity, beauty, and joy. He outlines MASS’s model of research, catalyst projects, and knowledge-sharing, and highlights how design can intervene where markets and politics often fall short.