Mitra Mansour is a Vancouver-based Interdisciplinary Designer, Creative Strategist, Researcher, Facilitator and Project Coordinator with a background in Art, Communication, Architecture and Urban Design having studied at UBC, ECUAD, and SFU.

She is the founder of Creative Room, a collaborative interdisciplinary design studio, and on-going research laboratory for cooperative creative studio business. She is also the Director of Community Engagement and Design Facilitator with the Vancouver Design Nerds, Co-Founder, Director and Curator of Civic Renewal Lab, and a member of the City of Vancouver Public Art Committee.

Mitra takes a holistic approach to design and is motivated by developing new ways to create value, and impact. Through design thinking and human centred design methodologies, she helps diverse community members and/or clients get engaged in fun, and innovative ways to tackle challenging issues related to social impact in the urban realm, and create authentic solutions from the ground up using collaborative processes. Her recent projects have focused on utilizing creative placemaking methodologies to address housing and cultural space affordability + accessibility solutions in Vancouver. Over the past 7 years, she has also been involved in collaborating with the Museum of Vancouver providing public engagement, programming and coordination consultation related to design and urbanism exhibits + projects. Mitra’s design process involves playing with micro and macro scales to inform an overall richer experience for the end user. Some of her recent projects include Upcycled Urbanism with MOV, PLAYtheBLOX with Sarah Hay + the Vancouver Design Nerds, YOUxBUILD with Lindsay Duthie, and strategic development for various arts + design organizations in Vancouver such as SPACE on Clark Dr.

Mitra is a serial volunteer having devoted her time to the Lower Mainland community for the past 20 years working with arts + cultural institutions, women's advocacy groups, affordable housing & sustainable community development initiatives, as well as youth groups, and through mentoring + advising design students. She is often invited to help lead workshops, give talks, and be a panelist at such places/institutions as UBC, SFU, RAIC Festival of Architecture, AIBC, Pecha Kucha New West, SPUR Festival, MOV, SBIA, DVBIA, MPBIA, and BCMA.

If you would like to say hi or collaborate please get in tough through [email protected]