The AIA International Global Mentorship Program invites everyone to join our June Program on June 19. This event is open to all.

When: Friday 19 June 2026 @ 09:00 (Eastern US time) / 15:00 (CET Paris time)
Where: Online

Speaker: Madeleine Ghillány-Lehar, Landscape Architect and Design Leader, West 8; OALA, CSLA/AAPC

Description

As part of the Design By Discovery series, this presentation explores how experimentation can happen not only through materials and form, but through dialogue. Through a case study of the Liverpool Waterfront, a landscape architect shares how public engagement and co-design workshops with landowners, government officials, and citizens became tools for expanding collective imagination.The presentation reflects on the strategies used to build trust, navigate political complexity, and guide communities toward embracing ambitious, once-unthinkable proposals.