Mark your calendars: HUBweek, Boston’s festival for the future founded by The Boston Globe, Harvard University, MIT, and Mass. General Hospital, returns this fall, October 10-15, with plans to transform Boston’s City Hall Plaza into a first-of-its-kind festival site. Over 150 events are open now for registration, including an event at PAYETTE on October 10 leveraging sustainable design to achieve social equity. Join Boston’s innovators this fall to discover the ideas shaping your tomorrow by registering for the event today!
Leveraging Sustainable Design to Achieve Social Equity
Sustainable design is typically defined by the triple bottom line – work that provides environmental, social and economic benefits. The City of Boston faces challenges in regards to sustainably designing the future – it’s a coastal city at great risk for sea level rise. Planning for a resilient, sustainable future impacts everyone who lives and works in the city. While those in the design and construction industry have direct ties to the city’s sustainable future, every individual has an impact on our environment. Additionally, Boston has the biggest economic disparity between racial groups in the 100 biggest cities in the United States. Because of the urgency in the City of Boston to address sustainable design, resiliency and social equity, this event focuses on the intersection of these issues. Hear from experts in the fields of sustainable design and equitable practice. Through a series of interactive exercises, you can develop your own strategies for bringing sustainable design and social equity to the forefront of city-wide dialogue and action. Every individual has an impact on our environment and this event focuses on each person as a steward of a sustainable, resilient and equitable future for the City of Boston.
Speakers:
Andrea Love, Director of Building Science
Karen Robichaud, Director of Creative Engagement
Details:
Tuesday, October 10 | 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
PAYETTE Office
290 Congress Street, 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02110
HUBweek Schedule:
- October 10th-11th: Spoke Events, at venues throughout Greater Boston
- October 12th: The HUB opens – HUBweek’s centralized festival site on City Hall Plaza
- October 12th-14th: Future Forum, HUBweek’s 3-day ideas festival
- October 12th-14th: Immersion, a live arts exhibition
- October 14th: Demo Day
Learn more at hubweek.org/events. Hope to see you there!
We are honored to share PAYETTE has received two 2026 Green Good Design Awards from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies—Land’s Sake Farm and The Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.
“Green GOOD DESIGN identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and works to develop a public awareness program that informs the general public about which global companies are doing the best job in ecological and sustainable design for our world. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, as well as product, packaging, and graphic design projects from over 30 nations were honored with the 2026 Green GOOD DESIGN Award.”
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