Your Name | Cynthia Turner |
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Cohort Assignment | Americas with Online Intensive, Winter-Spring 2024 |
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | I am a Senior Project Manager for public projects. Currently I guide my teams (owners, design team, reviewers and contractors) through the complex process of design, design review, approval, contracts, construction and closeout. |
2. What role do you see as yours to play? | I am the gatekeeper for all of the flow related to my projects and facilitate the work of the team. |
3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | My goal is to apply a more sustainable and regenerative approach to my projects moving forward for the rest of my career. |
4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | For the benefit of present and future generations including my children and grandchildren, I want to learn how to live my life in the most loving, regenerative way possible with the lightest footprint on the earth and my community as possible. Then I want to teach others what I learn. |
5. And for professional growth? | Learning how to facilitate a more regenerative approach to my projects. Learning how to bring the team on board with this approach, starting with the owners with positive results at the end of my work. I then want to teach others this approach, perhaps facilitating a studio in my firm for this purpose. |
6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | I am LEED AP BD+C and LEED AP since 2013 and have facilitated an array of LEED projects. I am a member of the AIA COTE with my local chapter, I am on a committee that plans an annual symposium, 'AIA Asheville Climate-Adaptive Design Symposium: Where Building Science meets Climate Science.' I just finished my third year helping to plan and this was the most rewarding symposium yet. |
7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | I am amazed by the climate scientists we invite to our symposium. There work is so important and must be so difficult, I am inspired. |
8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | Make everything you do about love. That is harder than I ever thought. Also, have the humility to know that humans are part of bigger systems and everything we do impacts others and the earth in ways we do not understand. |
Date Created | January 14, 2024 |