The Geoffrey Bawa Trust’s Moonamal Award will host an online Knowledge Series session on 19 October featuring Sierra Bainbridge (RLA, ASLA), founder and Senior Principal at MASS, and director of its Landscape Studio and Abundant Futures Lab.

The session will explore the intersections of design, ecology and the built environment, examining how design practice can respond to pressing environmental and societal challenges while creating opportunities for a more equitable and flourishing future.

With a background in landscape architecture, ecology and regional planning, Bainbridge advances interdisciplinary approaches to regenerative design. Her practice brings together research, collaboration and context-driven thinking to develop solutions that respond to the complexities of the places and communities they serve.

Her portfolio spans projects of international significance, from the High Line and Fresh Kills Park to the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture and the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Across these projects, her work demonstrates the potential of design to contribute to ecological restoration, strengthen relationships between people and place, and support more sustainable futures. Her work has received recognition from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Institute of Architects and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, among other institutions.

Bainbridge is also co-editor of Seeking Abundance:Design, Ecology and a Flourishing Planet, which explores the possibilities of design and ecological thinking in shaping a flourishing planet.

Her commitment to advancing the design professions extends to education and institutional leadership. She has taught architecture, landscape and interdisciplinary graduate studios and seminars at institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, the Boston Architectural College and the University of Rwanda. She has also helped develop educational programmes that connect design with conservation, food systems and community needs.

Through the Moonamal Knowledge Series, the Geoffrey Bawa Trust continues to foster dialogue around architecture, landscape, design and their relationship with the wider social and natural environment. The series creates opportunities to engage with practitioners whose work challenges conventional perspectives and expands the possibilities of design as a tool for meaningful change.

The free online session with Bainbridge invites participants to consider how design can move beyond individual projects to contribute to the long-term flourishing of communities and ecosystems.Further information on accessing the session will be shared through the Geoffrey Bawa Trust’s communication channels. To register for the sessions please use the link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-talk-seeking-abundance-design-ecology-and-a-flourishing-planet-tickets-2003279366512

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LANKATILES continued its design-led collaboration with Colombo Fashion Week at CFW Couture + Trousseau 2026, presenting a new interpretation of how surfaces can move beyond conventional applications to become part of a wider creative experience. For its latest collaboration, LANKATILES introduced a series of specially created mosaic-clad blocks and plinths, thoughtfully integrated into the runway environment as sculptural design elements.

The installation reflects LANKATILES’ approach to looking beyond what happens on the runway and exploring the design that shapes the space around it. Bringing together fashion and surface, movement and material, and runway and room, the collaboration demonstrates how materials associated with architecture and interiors can take on new meaning within a different creative context.

The relationship with Colombo Fashion Week has continued to evolve with each edition. In 2025, LANKATILES introduced Sri Lanka’s first tiled fashion runway, bringing fashion and surface design together in an unexpected way. At CFW Summer 2026, the collaboration evolved through a mosaic installation that highlighted the artistic and spatial potential of mosaics. At Couture + Trousseau 2026, LANKATILES took the concept further through “Living Sculpture”, transforming mosaics from a surface application into three-dimensional design elements within the runway space.

Commenting on the collaboration, Harin Samat, Head of Marketing, at LANKATILES, stated: “Colombo Fashion Week provides us with an opportunity to explore design beyond traditional boundaries. Architecture, interiors, fashion, material and craftsmanship continuously influence one another. With each collaboration, we have looked at how our materials can contribute differently to that conversation. ‘Living Sculpture’ takes this thinking further by transforming the surface itself into form and making it part of the overall runway experience”.

The collaboration also reflects LANKATILES’ wider ambition to contribute to Sri Lanka’s contemporary design landscape by engaging architects, interior designers, fashion designers, students and other creative communities.

This design-led approach is reflected across the LANKATILES portfolio, from its locally manufactured mosaics to premium large format collections such as Majestica, developed for contemporary residential, commercial and architectural environments. The brand continues to explore how surfaces can move beyond functional finishes to become an integral part of the overall design language within a space.

As Sri Lanka’s only local mosaic manufacturer, LANKATILES brings specialised expertise in mosaic and surface design to this conversation. At CFW Couture + Trousseau 2026, this expertise was expressed through an installation where texture, light, movement and material became part of the visual language of the event.

From the tiled runway of 2025 to the mosaic installation at CFW Summer 2026 and now “Living Sculpture”, each collaboration has offered a new interpretation of material and design. Through initiatives such as this, LANKATILES continues to reinforce its position as a premium, design forward Sri Lankan brand while contributing to the creative thinking shaping the country’s evolving design culture.

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