Select Speaking Engagements
GreenBuild
“World Bank Actions in Buthan”
YES Council for Change
“The Power of One Voice”
US National Defense Academy
“Empowerment of the Individual”
APAC Summit
“Building a City You Can Love”
UCLA
“Social Impact of Unexpected Events”
Nour Foundation
“Uniting Humanity in Consciousness”
Virtue Foundation
“The Butterfly Effect in Change”
UC Berkeley
“Spaces in Architecture and Landscape”
Members of the Pentagon
“Centers for Global Connectedness”
Members of the United Nations
“Centers for Global Connectedness”
Gesine Thomson is an internationally respected visionary architect and community planner who’s iconic projects seek to set new boundaries and promote new ideas for what is possible to improve the lives of people every day.
In all my projects the first thing I do is try to find the core value of the project.
Gesine speaks about Inspiration and Vision at the “YES Council” to Change Leaders from around the World in Nairobi, Kenya.
Sharing a Vision Invites New Vision
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Gesine Thomson
In a series of lectures delivered over the course of a year to Berlin Freie University’s European Master Class on Sustainable Community Design, Mrs. Thomson invited her students to share in understanding a vision for building stable and sustainable communities which provide people with an elevated quality of life. In the course, composed of top architecture students from around Europe, Mrs. Thomson focused heavily on a pinnacle project: SaddleHorn.
SaddleHorn has won numerous awards and was selected as the top planned sustainable community in America by the President of the World Green Building Council (WGBC) and by Fairway Living Magazine as one of the 10 Best New Projects in America. Gesine seeks to convey these methodologies to a generation of students, planners and emerging architects who will build the cities and communities that frame our lives.
Gesine lectures extensively around the World to business and political leaders and students on the Creative Process , Sustainability Planning , Architecture and Community Design.
How Motherhood Supercharged My Professional Career
Gesine Thomson speaks about her career as it relates to the insights offered by motherhood, and how her children helped her understand new ways to see the world and her work.
Gesine Thomson speaks about the importance of Diversity within City Design and Planning. Fields Medal winner, Cédric Villani, interviews her in Lyon, France.
Designing for Diversity