ABOUT US

We co-create to amplify our efforts to address the Climate Crisis, multiplying our creative energy to heal the Earth. We are compelled regenerative designers, yogis, outdoor explorers, and we love to explore and learn from the wisdom of all cultures. We strive to live a life that is authentic, tuned in with our inner springs and committed to creating a spacious lifestyle amongst our hurried society. We are urban homesteaders, nurturing our two children on the forested slopes of North Vancouver. We are grateful to our gracious hosts, the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations for the opportunity to live, work and play within their unceded ancestral territorie

Geneviève Noël is a visionary entrepreneur dedicated to fostering a symbiotic relationship between our built environments and our planet through the valourization of Indigenous Culture. She creates opportunities for the re-integration of biodiversity in urban environment and up-cycles waste streams into useful, life-affirming products. She has designed a patented living wall system that is Cradle to Cradle Certified and that as been commercialized worldwide under licence by Sempergreen BV.

Geneviève has a Bachelor of Design from Emily Carr University, a Permaculture Design Certification from Geoff Lawton and she is currently completing a Regenerative Soil Certification to further her knowledge of how to live symbiotically with our Earth.

In 2009, her firm MINDFUL INNOVATIONS was awarded the Small Business BC Sustainable Leadership Award and in 2023, MINDFUL INNOVATIONS was selected as part of the Game Changers leading companies in Natural Product Innovation.

Aligned with her regenerative efforts, Geneviève has personally planted over 1 million trees on the West Coast of British Columbia and she is proud to be Québécoise with French Canadian and Indigenous ancestry.

T. Maginnis Cocivera is a Registered Architect with the AIBC and has a Masters in Architecture (M.Arch) from Dalhousie University. His master’s thesis on building-integrated infrastructure that harnesses synergies between energy, water, waste and food production was awarded the top prize in the Cascadia Green Building Council's Closing the Loop Design Competition in 2006.

He has worked for Mario Bellini Associati in Milan, where he was a key member of the Louvre Department of Islamic Arts design team that won the international design competition, and for Busby Perkins+Will in Vancouver, where he was Project Architect on two leading edge sustainable projects: Plan Abu Dhabi 2030 and the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability at UBC. 

For the seven years prior to starting up Mindful Architecture, he served as Vice President Development at Polygon Homes, overseeing the delivery of more than 2000 multifamily homes. He headed the team that created a new type of open plan townhome that won the Urban Development Institute Award of Excellence in 2014 and has since become an industry standard.