Passive house design: A key to sustainable community building

Elva Mankin

A vibrant community, Pittsburgh’s Uptown neighborhood is taking bold steps to counteract decades of divestment that have resulted in vacant properties, dangerous pedestrian corridors, and the poor air quality that comes with being treated as a pass-through neighborhood between the city’s largest employment centers. It’s a familiar experience, one shared […]

The Design Society – a worldwide community

Elva Mankin

The Design Society, founded in the year 2000, is an interdisciplinary community of academics and industry practitioners with the goal of developing and promoting a robust, usable and scalable means of designing complex solutions that a sustainable and globalised society needs to thrive, in the 21st century. Our […]

Beautification of Your Community Matters

Elva Mankin

This feature requires JavaScript to be turned on. Community beautification should be high on your agenda as a local leader or a neighborhood or community organization.  Simple projects range from planting some pretty flowers or shrubs to painting planters, benches, sign posts, or whatever is beginning to look a bit […]

Interior Design Community

Elva Mankin

A Social Media Community for  Interior Design Professionals A place to gather and learn from one another, source products, share ideas and crowd-source advice from interior design professionals who get it, and better yet, get you.  What is Interior Design Community? Interior Design Community Interior Design Community stated in Google+ […]