Indigenous Public Interest Design

Indigenous Public Interest Design Institute Forum

November 21, 2025

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Continuing the Conversation – A Deep Dive into: What is Indigenous Public Interest Design and How can planning & design serve Indigenous People?

Free Online Event - Registration Required

Meet our Committee

The seven members of the Committee are leaders and representatives of diverse Indigenous communities.

Mission

Indigenous People have the right to live in socially, economically, and environmentally healthy communities grounded in cultural heritage and the sacred lands we called or call home.

Join the Discussion

Discussion topics include: Indigenous Public Interest Design, Indigeneity, Storytelling, Many Spirits, Homelands, Know Your Place, Reclaiming the Urban Forest, Culturally Responsive, Leading with Confidence, Procurement Acrobatics, Everything is Interrelated, Intro to IPID and I-SEED.

Desireé Ibinarriaga

Speaker: Storytelling - Diversities in Language & the Art of Cultural Memory

Dr Desiree Ibinarriaga is an Indigenous Mexican woman with Mayan, Nahua, Basque and Spanish heritage. Desiree is an educator, researcher, creative practitioner, collaborative and social design maker and thinker. She is Lecturer at Monash Art Design and Architecture, and Coordinator for Indigenous Higher Degrees by Research being part of Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab.

Wanda Dalla Costa, FRAIC, AIA

Speaker: Culturally Responsive - Incubating Ideas to Reality

Wanda Dalla Costa, FRAIC, AIA (she/her) is an architect, member of Saddle Lake Cree Nation, and an advocate for Indigenous peoples. A graduate of SCI-Arc and the University of Calgary, she balances practice and teaching: at Arizona State University she founded and directs the Indigenous Design Collective, while leading Tawaw Architects, a firm licensed in California, Arizona, Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia.