IDC003
Designing with Nature
Architecture, Innovation & Designing for Human Experience
Thursday, 10 September 2026
(Registrations Opening Soon)
Amrita Mahindroo
Director, DROO – Da Costa Mahindroo Architects
London, United Kingdom / Paris, France
12:00 pm BST
Amrita Mahindroo is an architect, urbanist and Director of DROO – Da Costa Mahindroo Architects. Her work bridges architecture, urbanism and research, exploring how emerging technologies, environmental change and social transformation influence cities and the human experience. She has taught and lectured internationally while leading award-winning projects across multiple continents.
Arthur Mamou-Mani
Founder, Mamou-Mani Architects
12:00 pm BST
Arthur Mamou-Mani is an award-winning architect recognised internationally for pioneering eco-parametric architecture, computational design and digital fabrication. Founder of Mamou-Mani Architects and Fab.Pub, his work combines biomaterials, advanced manufacturing and circular design principles to create innovative architecture that reconnects technology, nature and human experience.
Nimrod Weis
Founder & Creative Director, ENESS
9:00 pm AEST
Nimrod Weis is the founder and Creative Director of ENESS, an internationally acclaimed multidisciplinary art and design studio. His work combines architecture, public art, digital technology and immersive storytelling to create interactive experiences that inspire curiosity, participation and stronger connections between people, technology and place.
Sarah Meyer
Founder & Creative Director, MORAENE
8:30 pm ACST
Sarah Meyer is the founder of MORAENE, an architecture and design practice based in Adelaide. Her work integrates architecture, interiors and urban design through concept-driven, research-led design, with a strong emphasis on sustainability, culture, material innovation and creating places that respond thoughtfully to climate and community.
Pedro Lira
Founder, Natureza Urbana
https://naturezaurbana.net/en/
Pedro Lira is a landscape architect and founder of Natureza Urbana. His practice focuses on urban ecology, biodiversity and nature-based solutions that reconnect cities with ecological systems. Through research, advocacy and design, he promotes greener, healthier and more resilient urban environments throughout Brazil and Latin America.
Faid Ahmad
(TBC)
Co-Director, Betchouf
https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Faid.Ahmad
Faid Ahmad is a landscape architect, artist and academic, and Co-Director of Betchouf, a not-for-profit collective exploring diaspora, solidarity and land through design and cultural practice. A lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney, his work examines identity, community, care and landscape as frameworks for more inclusive and socially responsive futures.
ABSTRACT
IDC003
Designing with Nature
Architecture, Innovation & Designing for Human Experience
Architecture has always reflected the values of its time. Today, as our cities face accelerating environmental, social and technological change, designers are challenged to move beyond creating buildings that simply perform—they must create places that inspire, restore and deepen our relationship with the natural world.
IDC003 brings together an international panel of architects, designers, artists and innovators whose work explores the intersection of nature, digital technology, material innovation and human experience. From computational and parametric design to immersive public art, regenerative architecture and socially responsive practice, the conversation examines how creativity can shape healthier, more meaningful environments for people and communities.
Rather than viewing technology and nature as opposing forces, this discussion asks how they can work together to produce architecture that is adaptive, expressive and ecologically intelligent. The panel will explore emerging design tools, advances in digital fabrication, circular material systems, and the growing importance of cultural identity, participation and sensory experience in the design process. These themes reflect a broader shift toward design approaches that reconnect people with natural systems while embracing innovation as a driver of environmental and social resilience.
Featuring perspectives from Australia, the United Kingdom and Brazil, IDC003 offers a rich exchange of ideas from practices working across architecture, landscape, art, research and urban design. Together, the speakers will consider how the next generation of designers can create places that are technologically advanced, environmentally regenerative and deeply human.
As part of the International Design Conversations Knowledge Archive, this live discussion contributes to a growing global dialogue exploring the future of architecture, landscape architecture and design in an increasingly interconnected world.