Mark Busse is a communication strategist and designer with a strong desire to use design and creativity as a catalyst for positive change while serving communities. As Director of TILT Curiosity Labs at HCMA Architecture + Design, Busse leads efforts to explore creativity, interdisciplinary design, and engagement in all its forms, including community initiatives and an artist in residency program.

A graduate of UBC’s Visual Arts Program and TWU’s School of Business, Mark is a Certified Graphic Designer and Fellow of the Graphic Designers of Canada. Prior to joining HCMA, Busse was managing partner of Industrial Brand, a design consultancy which he co-founded in 1997 that specialized in helping professional services firms realize brand and marketing potential through research-based strategy and communication design.

Driven by a desire to extract learnings and process innovation from a variety of design practices, Busse is fascinated by new and emerging processes and technologies and the revolutionary impact they have on humanity and the environments in which they live. As a burgeoning urbanist with a new perspective, his unique set of skills as a creativity and process facilitator, educator, and engagement strategist has allowed him to create communities and host conversations, workshops, and large events in a variety of forms.

Busse’s career has put him on the frontier of applying design methods to social and strategic questions in business, community, and the arts. He has been an outspoken design industry writer, speaker, and activist, serving on various industry boards, advisory councils, and education programs.

Busse is grateful to live and work on the unceded homelands of the Musqueum, Squamish, & Tsleil-Waututh Coast Salish nations. (Vancouver, BC) where he invests in the creative community by producing and hosting events such as Likemind Vancouver, CreativeMornings/Vancouver, and Interesting Vancouver.

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