John Brown regularly gives lectures and presentations to general audiences, residential industry professionals, and architecture/ design students about the slow home philosophy and the potential for design to help define a richer and more sustainable approach to where and how we live. To inquire about scheduling a speaking engagement with John Brown, please contact Carina van Olm.
Recent Topics
- For General Audiences
- Would You Like Fries With That Home? – The link between fast food and fast houses
- Design School for Real Life – How to think like a designer rather than a consumer
- What Wrong With This House? – The four major problems that afflict most homes and how to avoid them
- Simple, Light and Open – Three steps to a richer and more sustainable way of life
- For Industry Professionals
- Redesigning Practice: Being successful, doing good work, and making a difference in today’s residential construction industry (Architects)
- Slow Home: How to bring new value to your clients by thinking like a designer (Real Estate)
- Now What? Understanding customer needs in a post oil post credit crisis world (Construction)
- For Architecture and Design Students
- Making A Difference: Architectural Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise
- Emergent Forms of Residential Practice
- Practice 2.0: Expanding the role of the designer in a too fast world
Selected Venues
- Harvard Executive Education Program: Boston
- Interiors World Forum: Milan Italy
- International Federation for Housing and Planning Conference: Copenhagen Denmark
- Tectonics: Making Meaning International Conference: Eindhoven Netherlands
- Interiors Forum: Glasgow Scotland
- SHRA International Conference: Oxford, United Kingdom
- Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Annual Festival: Toronto, Montreal
- RAIC Redefining Practice Lecture Tour (with Sarah Susanka): Vancouver, Toronto, Quebec City
- AIA National Conference: San Francisco
- AIA/ACSA Design Build Conference: Atlanta
- AIA Regional Conference: Montana
- Canadian Design Build Institute: Edmonton
- Quebec Home Builders Association: La Baille
- Interior Design Show: Vancouver
- Home and Interior Design Show: Calgary
- Congress of Residential Architects: Charleston
- Ontario Association of Architects: Toronto
- Architecture Institute of British Columbia: Vancouver
- University of Arkansas
- Clemson University
- Philadelphia University
- Montana State University
- University of British Columbia
- University of Toronto
