How do we design the invisible structures that shape our communities?

In this conversation, architect, creative leader, and systems thinker Hadil El-Baba explores what architecture can teach us about building communities that foster belonging, connection, and meaningful participation.

Hadil shares why she walked away from a successful architecture career in Toronto to follow a deeper question: How do we create the conditions for a different world? Together, we explore the invisible architecture underneath every community—from power and authority to governance, relationships, and belonging—and why changing our larger systems may begin by noticing how these dynamics show up in our own lives.

We also go inside Hadil’s course, The Architecture of Community, an eight-week ex ...