In Decoupling Profit, Purpose & Value, Organizational Designer Matt Smith explores profit’s conceptual underpinnings and questions what it actually incentivizes in architectural practice.

In Profit and Placemaking, Historic Preservation Planner Daniel Schwab juxtaposes pre-capitalist vs. capitalist urban spaces, revealing which economic model produces the most beneficial outcomes.

See how Art Director-turned-CEO Edie Dillman is turning the building industry upside-down in her PROFIT: Flipping New Housing for Good.

Fulbright-National Geographic Fellow and Nectar Nomad Melanie Kirby sketches a redefinition of wealth that benefits all of our planet’s biota in her presentation Profit for Prophets.

In Troubled Waters, Drystone Mason Joe Dinwiddie reviews the good, the bad, and the ugly of masonry projects around the world.

Developer Allan Affeldt shares his investment philosophy and the pay-off when we honor place and people in Creating a Sense of Place By Investing in Historic Buildings.

In our usual manner, we invite our interdisciplinary line-up of presenters to expand the scope of this contentious word—Profit. We welcome exploration of this concept beyond its noun form, into its adjectival self—actions and endeavors that maximize profitable (as in beneficial) outcomes.

Preservation architect Shawn Evans presents A Future-Oriented Preservation, a fresh approach to honoring our heritage while laying a foundation for municipal evolution.

Accompany visual artist Kat Kinnick on a journey to the marriage of form and function in Roots of the Desert.

In Awaken the Micro Nature, Ayurvedic practitioner Alexis Cintron shares healing philosophy, movement and breath techniques to help us regain our center.

In Invisible Roots, Santa Fe Botanical Garden Director of Education and Interpretation Mollie Parsons reveals the secret world of tree and plant roots.

In Daphne, artist and educator Clementine Wood courageously faces her evolving self as she returns to her almost-forgotten creations.

Brand designer and strategist Renee Innis presents Where We Land—a design project that explores her German ancestry, their 270-year journey through the Americas to their present-day farm in Kansas, and the lands that were appropriated from Indigenous peoples along the way.

Grab your favorite drinks and nibbles and nosh your way through our first digital edition of PechaKucha. Join artist and performer Max Neutra this Earth Day as he presents a volume of virtuosos for your virtual wonderment.

Designer and planner, Miriam Diddy, developed a mobile app for the Zuni Pueblo that enabled community-driven data collection. In Dwelling in the Data Miriam will share her team’s preservation strategy on empowering the community to re-think how they repair, build and dwell in their place and how these principles can be applied in Santa Fe.

Ava Shije, a digital marketing strategist, shares Crafting Your Company’s Positioning Strategy on how business leaders can communicate their value to customer groups, attract them when launching their companies, and account for demographics and competitors.

Portfolio manager, Nick Venditti, takes us on a journey in Your Instincts Are Wrong - A Mathematical Approach to Life through statistics at the intersection of our own instincts, providing a mathematical perspective on one’s approach to simple things believed to be true that could be wrong.

Armed forces veteran and flight paramedic, Alex Howell, shares his personal journey in Never Quit!, How the Military's Special Operations Teaches to Never Give Up on how persistence has implications not only during war-time but also in his daily rituals and career following his honorable discharge.

In ‘Strategies for Navigating the Online World’ Franziska Neumann focuses on building tools for creative-minded entrepreneurs to build their online presence and elevate their brand through creativity, connection and consistency.

Carlos Gemora is an urban planner for the City of Santa Fe. In ‘Rampant Curiosity, Benevolent Chaos and Beautiful Failure’ Carlos will lead us through strategies that embrace curiosity, chaos and failure told from personal stories, metaphors and concepts of seed dispersal.