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.

Geneviève Noel is a visionary inventor with an entrepreneurial spirit. Her mission is to restore a symbiotic relationship between our built environment and our planet by being an active participant in the valourization of Indigenous Culture.

She applies her creativity to finding unexpected nature-based solutions to improve building performance and employs her organic formal sensibility to express culture authentically.

Geneviève has a Bachelor of Design from Emily Carr University. She creates opportunities for the re-integration of biodiversity in our built environment and to up-cycle 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. She is now completing a Permaculture Design Certification and Regenerative Soil Science Diploma to further her knowledge of how to live symbiotically with our Earth.

A recognized expert in green roofs and living walls, she has undertaken major commissions including: a Living Partition for the Athlete's Lounge at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, a 100 square meter living wall for the Westin Hotel, a green roof with Patkau Architects that recreates the coastal bluff ecosystem and a vertical urban agriculture wall for an epicurean client in Shaughnessy.

Along with Maginnis, Geneviève has presented at the ECOCITY World Wide Summit and at the Metro Vancouver Net Zero Waste Conference.

Her teaching work includes the Green Roof Course at BCIT's School of Construction and the Living Wall Course at Green Roofs for Healthy Cities with her colleague Randy Sharp. In 2009, her firm MUBI (now 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.