2024
Keena,N., Friedman,A., Parsaee, M., Rondinel-Oviedo, D. (2024, November 16). Housing Passports. A semantic knowledge graph for Canadian residential buildings to support a circular economy [Presented by: Parsaee, M.]. ACADIA 2024 - Designing Change by University of Calgary School of Architecture Planning & Landscape, Calgary, Canada
Keena, N. (2024, November 11). Digital Tools Facilitating Circularity, and Potential for Decarbonization in Housing Offered by a CE Approach [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Politecnico di Milano – ABC Department, and International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction.
Friedman, A. (2024, November 11) Circular Economy, Adaptability and Prefabrication in Housing [Presented by: Friedman, A.]. By Politecnico di Milano – ABC Department, and International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction.
Keena, N. (2024, September 20) EvolveUX - Visualizing Canada’s Housing Characteristics [Presented by: Keena, N.]. EvolveDrupal Summit, New York City, USA.
Keena,N., Friedman,A., Parsaee, M., Klein, A. (2024, March 14-16). TAD Journal: Meeting environmental challenges [Presented by: Rondinel-Oviedo, D.]. 2024 ACSA 112th Annual Meeting Disrupters on the edge, Vancouver, Canada.
Rondinel-Oviedo, D., Keena, N., Pomasonco-Alvis, M. (2024, March 14-16). Future Use Architecture: Connecting housing policy, housing typology, and Resource Use for housing in Canada [Presented by: Rondinel-Oviedo, D.]. 2024 ACSA 112th Annual Meeting Disrupters on the edge, Vancouver, Canada.
2023
Noronha, L., Hajduk, A., Crouzat, S.,Dyson, A., Lokko, M., Prince, S., Tuya, S., Salam, A., Guillot, T., Reck, B., Sharples, C., Keena, N. (2023, September 19) High-Level Dialogue on "Building Materials and the Climate - Constructing the Future'', Yale Club, New York, United States of America.
Dyson, A., Keena, N., Lokko, M., Reck, B.K., Ciardullo, C. (2023). Press Release: United Nations Environment Programme, & Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture. Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future.
Keena, N. And Friedman, A. (2023, April 13-15). From Trace Paper to Digital Tools: Computation for Yield Analysis. Digitalization, Data, and Housing Design. At Beyond Single Use: Open Building Council, Architecture & Urban Design Conference. Boston.
Keena, N. (2023). Circular Economy and the Built Environment. Arup's Americas Circular Economy Skills Network. Arup, Montreal.
Keena, N. And Friedman, A. (2023, June 14-16). A Data Visualization Web Application for Planning Sustainable Cities in a Circular Economy. AMPS Conference on Livable Cities – New York: A Conference on Issues Affecting Life in Cities. New York.
Keena, N. and Friedman A. (2023, May 25-28). Data Homebase: A web application visualizing Canada’s housing characteristics to foster a circular economy. Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Annual Conference and Trade Show, Toronto, Ontario.
Keena, N., Friedman, A. and Oeser, A. (2023, May 26). How the McGill School of Architecture used Data Visualization to Innovate the Housing Circular Economy [Presented by: Keena, N. and Oeser A.]. At Evolve Drupal Hosted by Evolving Web, Montreal, Quebec.
Keena, N., Rondinel-Oviedo, D. & Acevedo-De-los-Ríos, A. (2023, September 4-6). Greenhouse gas emissions from residential building and circular economy mitigation strategies [Presented by: Keena, N.]. World Resources Forum 2023, Geneva, Switzerland (hybrid event)
2022
Keena, N. (2022, November 6-18). Building our future – The potential of buildings and building materials for a climate neutral world. [Presented by: Keena, N.] . COP 27 - UN Climate Change Conference, Egypt (hybrid event)
Keena, N. (2022, September 21). Transition Pathways Toward a Regenerative Built Environment. [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Special Forum at SBE Conference, Bauhaus Earth, Berlin, Germany
Keena, N. (2022, June 08). Deep Dive Webinar: Circular Solutions for the Urban Built Environment - Construction & Demolition Waste and the role of Digitalization (online)
Dyson, A., Keena, N., Lokko, M. (2022, May 5). Biomaterials Supporting the Transition to a Circular Built environment in the Global South [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Online event ‘Can biomaterials become the building blocks for the 21st Century?’ Yale University CEA and UNEP, New Haven, USA.
Keena, N. (2022, May 17). Architecture and Circular Economy. [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Symposium organized by l’Ordre des architectes du Québec and Architecture Sans Frontières, Montréal, Canada.
Keena, N. (2022, June 01-03). Decarbonization of the Built Environment. [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Green Building Council Costa Rica, IX International Congress of Sustainable Cities, Costa Rica.
2021
Circular Economy and the Built Environment: From Housing to Data. TISEDTalks - McGill Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, Montréal, Canada.
Keena, N. (2021, June 24-25) New enterprises for integrating architectural material life cycle phases. ( [Presented by: Keena, N.]. 2021 ACSA/EAAE Teachers. Conference | Curriculum for Climate Agency: Design (in)Action - Online Conference, New York, USA
2020
Circular Built Environment Supporting Innovations in Cities. (Presenter and Panelist). UN SBC event at UN Habitat 10th World Urban Forum, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
State of Play for Circular Built Environment in North America, Europe, and Middle East: Key findings from regional reports on circularity in the built environment. (Presenter and Panelist). World Circular Economic Forum. Online Side Event, UN SBC, Toronto, Canada.
Socio-Ecological Visual Analytics (SEVA): Data, Design and Knowledge, (Presenter and Panelist). Yale School of Management, Data and the Environment, New Haven, USA.
Mapping the Built Environment Process (BEP) Ecosystem via a Data to Knowledge Framework. AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: Carbon. Pennsylvania State University, virtual conference, State College, USA.
Built Environment Ecosystem Unit Framework towards Sustainable Urban Housing. World Sustainable Built Environment (WSBE) Conference: Beyond 2020, Online conference, Gothburg, Sweden.
2019
What can be brought from Europe to the Global South and what can Europe learn from other continents (Panelist), United Nations Sustainable Built Environment Knowledge Sharing Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
Case study: Real-time Collection and Visualization of Data from the Ecological Living Module – an eco-house which tackles climate change migration - through a web-based-platform named SEVA. Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange, Bloomberg Building, New York, NY
The benefit of integrating emergy synthesis and LCA towards more comprehensive analysis of advanced building systems. 10th Biennial Emergy Conference University of Florida, Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL
2016
Designing Built Ecologies: Investigating the Potential of Emergy Analysis. Presented at the 32nd Passive & Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference on Cities, Buildings, People: Towards Regenerative Environments, LA, CA
Interactive Visualization for Interdisciplinary Research. Electronic Imaging Conference, Society for Imaging Science and Technology, San Francisco, CA
Towards a Visualization Framework to Evaluate the Emergy of Built Ecologies. 9th Biennial Emergy Conference University of Florida, Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL
Keena,N., Friedman,A., Parsaee, M., Rondinel-Oviedo, D. (2024, November 16). Housing Passports. A semantic knowledge graph for Canadian residential buildings to support a circular economy [Presented by: Parsaee, M.]. ACADIA 2024 - Designing Change by University of Calgary School of Architecture Planning & Landscape, Calgary, Canada
Keena, N. (2024, November 11). Digital Tools Facilitating Circularity, and Potential for Decarbonization in Housing Offered by a CE Approach [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Politecnico di Milano – ABC Department, and International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction.
Friedman, A. (2024, November 11) Circular Economy, Adaptability and Prefabrication in Housing [Presented by: Friedman, A.]. By Politecnico di Milano – ABC Department, and International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction.
Keena, N. (2024, September 20) EvolveUX - Visualizing Canada’s Housing Characteristics [Presented by: Keena, N.]. EvolveDrupal Summit, New York City, USA.
Keena,N., Friedman,A., Parsaee, M., Klein, A. (2024, March 14-16). TAD Journal: Meeting environmental challenges [Presented by: Rondinel-Oviedo, D.]. 2024 ACSA 112th Annual Meeting Disrupters on the edge, Vancouver, Canada.
Rondinel-Oviedo, D., Keena, N., Pomasonco-Alvis, M. (2024, March 14-16). Future Use Architecture: Connecting housing policy, housing typology, and Resource Use for housing in Canada [Presented by: Rondinel-Oviedo, D.]. 2024 ACSA 112th Annual Meeting Disrupters on the edge, Vancouver, Canada.
2023
Noronha, L., Hajduk, A., Crouzat, S.,Dyson, A., Lokko, M., Prince, S., Tuya, S., Salam, A., Guillot, T., Reck, B., Sharples, C., Keena, N. (2023, September 19) High-Level Dialogue on "Building Materials and the Climate - Constructing the Future'', Yale Club, New York, United States of America.
Dyson, A., Keena, N., Lokko, M., Reck, B.K., Ciardullo, C. (2023). Press Release: United Nations Environment Programme, & Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture. Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future.
Keena, N. And Friedman, A. (2023, April 13-15). From Trace Paper to Digital Tools: Computation for Yield Analysis. Digitalization, Data, and Housing Design. At Beyond Single Use: Open Building Council, Architecture & Urban Design Conference. Boston.
Keena, N. (2023). Circular Economy and the Built Environment. Arup's Americas Circular Economy Skills Network. Arup, Montreal.
Keena, N. And Friedman, A. (2023, June 14-16). A Data Visualization Web Application for Planning Sustainable Cities in a Circular Economy. AMPS Conference on Livable Cities – New York: A Conference on Issues Affecting Life in Cities. New York.
Keena, N. and Friedman A. (2023, May 25-28). Data Homebase: A web application visualizing Canada’s housing characteristics to foster a circular economy. Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Annual Conference and Trade Show, Toronto, Ontario.
Keena, N., Friedman, A. and Oeser, A. (2023, May 26). How the McGill School of Architecture used Data Visualization to Innovate the Housing Circular Economy [Presented by: Keena, N. and Oeser A.]. At Evolve Drupal Hosted by Evolving Web, Montreal, Quebec.
Keena, N., Rondinel-Oviedo, D. & Acevedo-De-los-Ríos, A. (2023, September 4-6). Greenhouse gas emissions from residential building and circular economy mitigation strategies [Presented by: Keena, N.]. World Resources Forum 2023, Geneva, Switzerland (hybrid event)
2022
Keena, N. (2022, November 6-18). Building our future – The potential of buildings and building materials for a climate neutral world. [Presented by: Keena, N.] . COP 27 - UN Climate Change Conference, Egypt (hybrid event)
Keena, N. (2022, September 21). Transition Pathways Toward a Regenerative Built Environment. [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Special Forum at SBE Conference, Bauhaus Earth, Berlin, Germany
Keena, N. (2022, June 08). Deep Dive Webinar: Circular Solutions for the Urban Built Environment - Construction & Demolition Waste and the role of Digitalization (online)
Dyson, A., Keena, N., Lokko, M. (2022, May 5). Biomaterials Supporting the Transition to a Circular Built environment in the Global South [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Online event ‘Can biomaterials become the building blocks for the 21st Century?’ Yale University CEA and UNEP, New Haven, USA.
Keena, N. (2022, May 17). Architecture and Circular Economy. [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Symposium organized by l’Ordre des architectes du Québec and Architecture Sans Frontières, Montréal, Canada.
Keena, N. (2022, June 01-03). Decarbonization of the Built Environment. [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Green Building Council Costa Rica, IX International Congress of Sustainable Cities, Costa Rica.
2021
Circular Economy and the Built Environment: From Housing to Data. TISEDTalks - McGill Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, Montréal, Canada.
Keena, N. (2021, June 24-25) New enterprises for integrating architectural material life cycle phases. ( [Presented by: Keena, N.]. 2021 ACSA/EAAE Teachers. Conference | Curriculum for Climate Agency: Design (in)Action - Online Conference, New York, USA
2020
Circular Built Environment Supporting Innovations in Cities. (Presenter and Panelist). UN SBC event at UN Habitat 10th World Urban Forum, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
State of Play for Circular Built Environment in North America, Europe, and Middle East: Key findings from regional reports on circularity in the built environment. (Presenter and Panelist). World Circular Economic Forum. Online Side Event, UN SBC, Toronto, Canada.
Socio-Ecological Visual Analytics (SEVA): Data, Design and Knowledge, (Presenter and Panelist). Yale School of Management, Data and the Environment, New Haven, USA.
Mapping the Built Environment Process (BEP) Ecosystem via a Data to Knowledge Framework. AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: Carbon. Pennsylvania State University, virtual conference, State College, USA.
Built Environment Ecosystem Unit Framework towards Sustainable Urban Housing. World Sustainable Built Environment (WSBE) Conference: Beyond 2020, Online conference, Gothburg, Sweden.
2019
What can be brought from Europe to the Global South and what can Europe learn from other continents (Panelist), United Nations Sustainable Built Environment Knowledge Sharing Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
Case study: Real-time Collection and Visualization of Data from the Ecological Living Module – an eco-house which tackles climate change migration - through a web-based-platform named SEVA. Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange, Bloomberg Building, New York, NY
The benefit of integrating emergy synthesis and LCA towards more comprehensive analysis of advanced building systems. 10th Biennial Emergy Conference University of Florida, Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL
2016
Designing Built Ecologies: Investigating the Potential of Emergy Analysis. Presented at the 32nd Passive & Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference on Cities, Buildings, People: Towards Regenerative Environments, LA, CA
Interactive Visualization for Interdisciplinary Research. Electronic Imaging Conference, Society for Imaging Science and Technology, San Francisco, CA
Towards a Visualization Framework to Evaluate the Emergy of Built Ecologies. 9th Biennial Emergy Conference University of Florida, Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL
TALKS
2024
Keena,N., Friedman,A., Parsaee, M., Rondinel-Oviedo, D. (2024, November 16). Housing Passports. A semantic knowledge graph for Canadian residential buildings to support a circular economy [Presented by: Parsaee, M.]. ACADIA 2024 - Designing Change by University of Calgary School of Architecture Planning & Landscape, Calgary, Canada
Keena, N. (2024, November 11). Digital Tools Facilitating Circularity, and Potential for Decarbonization in Housing Offered by a CE Approach [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Politecnico di Milano – ABC Department, and International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction.
Friedman, A. (2024, November 11) Circular Economy, Adaptability and Prefabrication in Housing [Presented by: Friedman, A.]. By Politecnico di Milano – ABC Department, and International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction.
Keena, N. (2024, September 20) EvolveUX - Visualizing Canada’s Housing Characteristics [Presented by: Keena, N.]. EvolveDrupal Summit, New York City, USA.
Keena,N., Friedman,A., Parsaee, M., Klein, A. (2024, March 14-16). TAD Journal: Meeting environmental challenges [Presented by: Rondinel-Oviedo, D.]. 2024 ACSA 112th Annual Meeting Disrupters on the edge, Vancouver, Canada.
Rondinel-Oviedo, D., Keena, N., Pomasonco-Alvis, M. (2024, March 14-16). Future Use Architecture: Connecting housing policy, housing typology, and Resource Use for housing in Canada [Presented by: Rondinel-Oviedo, D.]. 2024 ACSA 112th Annual Meeting Disrupters on the edge, Vancouver, Canada.
2023
Noronha, L., Hajduk, A., Crouzat, S.,Dyson, A., Lokko, M., Prince, S., Tuya, S., Salam, A., Guillot, T., Reck, B., Sharples, C., Keena, N. (2023, September 19) High-Level Dialogue on "Building Materials and the Climate - Constructing the Future'', Yale Club, New York, United States of America.
Dyson, A., Keena, N., Lokko, M., Reck, B.K., Ciardullo, C. (2023). Press Release: United Nations Environment Programme, & Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture. Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future.
Keena, N. And Friedman, A. (2023, April 13-15). From Trace Paper to Digital Tools: Computation for Yield Analysis. Digitalization, Data, and Housing Design. At Beyond Single Use: Open Building Council, Architecture & Urban Design Conference. Boston.
Keena, N. (2023). Circular Economy and the Built Environment. Arup's Americas Circular Economy Skills Network. Arup, Montreal.
Keena, N. And Friedman, A. (2023, June 14-16). A Data Visualization Web Application for Planning Sustainable Cities in a Circular Economy. AMPS Conference on Livable Cities – New York: A Conference on Issues Affecting Life in Cities. New York.
Keena, N. and Friedman A. (2023, May 25-28). Data Homebase: A web application visualizing Canada’s housing characteristics to foster a circular economy. Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Annual Conference and Trade Show, Toronto, Ontario.
Keena, N., Friedman, A. and Oeser, A. (2023, May 26). How the McGill School of Architecture used Data Visualization to Innovate the Housing Circular Economy [Presented by: Keena, N. and Oeser A.]. At Evolve Drupal Hosted by Evolving Web, Montreal, Quebec.
Keena, N., Rondinel-Oviedo, D. & Acevedo-De-los-Ríos, A. (2023, September 4-6). Greenhouse gas emissions from residential building and circular economy mitigation strategies [Presented by: Keena, N.]. World Resources Forum 2023, Geneva, Switzerland (hybrid event)
2022
Keena, N. (2022, November 6-18). Building our future – The potential of buildings and building materials for a climate neutral world. [Presented by: Keena, N.] . COP 27 - UN Climate Change Conference, Egypt (hybrid event)
Keena, N. (2022, September 21). Transition Pathways Toward a Regenerative Built Environment. [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Special Forum at SBE Conference, Bauhaus Earth, Berlin, Germany
Keena, N. (2022, June 08). Deep Dive Webinar: Circular Solutions for the Urban Built Environment - Construction & Demolition Waste and the role of Digitalization (online)
Dyson, A., Keena, N., Lokko, M. (2022, May 5). Biomaterials Supporting the Transition to a Circular Built environment in the Global South [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Online event ‘Can biomaterials become the building blocks for the 21st Century?’ Yale University CEA and UNEP, New Haven, USA.
Keena, N. (2022, May 17). Architecture and Circular Economy. [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Symposium organized by l’Ordre des architectes du Québec and Architecture Sans Frontières, Montréal, Canada.
Keena, N. (2022, June 01-03). Decarbonization of the Built Environment. [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Green Building Council Costa Rica, IX International Congress of Sustainable Cities, Costa Rica.
2021
Circular Economy and the Built Environment: From Housing to Data. TISEDTalks - McGill Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, Montréal, Canada.
Keena, N. (2021, June 24-25) New enterprises for integrating architectural material life cycle phases. ( [Presented by: Keena, N.]. 2021 ACSA/EAAE Teachers. Conference | Curriculum for Climate Agency: Design (in)Action - Online Conference, New York, USA
2020
Circular Built Environment Supporting Innovations in Cities. (Presenter and Panelist). UN SBC event at UN Habitat 10th World Urban Forum, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
State of Play for Circular Built Environment in North America, Europe, and Middle East: Key findings from regional reports on circularity in the built environment. (Presenter and Panelist). World Circular Economic Forum. Online Side Event, UN SBC, Toronto, Canada.
Socio-Ecological Visual Analytics (SEVA): Data, Design and Knowledge, (Presenter and Panelist). Yale School of Management, Data and the Environment, New Haven, USA.
Mapping the Built Environment Process (BEP) Ecosystem via a Data to Knowledge Framework. AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: Carbon. Pennsylvania State University, virtual conference, State College, USA.
Built Environment Ecosystem Unit Framework towards Sustainable Urban Housing. World Sustainable Built Environment (WSBE) Conference: Beyond 2020, Online conference, Gothburg, Sweden.
2019
What can be brought from Europe to the Global South and what can Europe learn from other continents (Panelist), United Nations Sustainable Built Environment Knowledge Sharing Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
Case study: Real-time Collection and Visualization of Data from the Ecological Living Module – an eco-house which tackles climate change migration - through a web-based-platform named SEVA. Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange, Bloomberg Building, New York, NY
The benefit of integrating emergy synthesis and LCA towards more comprehensive analysis of advanced building systems. 10th Biennial Emergy Conference University of Florida, Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL
2016
Designing Built Ecologies: Investigating the Potential of Emergy Analysis. Presented at the 32nd Passive & Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference on Cities, Buildings, People: Towards Regenerative Environments, LA, CA
Interactive Visualization for Interdisciplinary Research. Electronic Imaging Conference, Society for Imaging Science and Technology, San Francisco, CA
Towards a Visualization Framework to Evaluate the Emergy of Built Ecologies. 9th Biennial Emergy Conference University of Florida, Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL
Keena,N., Friedman,A., Parsaee, M., Rondinel-Oviedo, D. (2024, November 16). Housing Passports. A semantic knowledge graph for Canadian residential buildings to support a circular economy [Presented by: Parsaee, M.]. ACADIA 2024 - Designing Change by University of Calgary School of Architecture Planning & Landscape, Calgary, Canada
Keena, N. (2024, November 11). Digital Tools Facilitating Circularity, and Potential for Decarbonization in Housing Offered by a CE Approach [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Politecnico di Milano – ABC Department, and International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction.
Friedman, A. (2024, November 11) Circular Economy, Adaptability and Prefabrication in Housing [Presented by: Friedman, A.]. By Politecnico di Milano – ABC Department, and International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction.
Keena, N. (2024, September 20) EvolveUX - Visualizing Canada’s Housing Characteristics [Presented by: Keena, N.]. EvolveDrupal Summit, New York City, USA.
Keena,N., Friedman,A., Parsaee, M., Klein, A. (2024, March 14-16). TAD Journal: Meeting environmental challenges [Presented by: Rondinel-Oviedo, D.]. 2024 ACSA 112th Annual Meeting Disrupters on the edge, Vancouver, Canada.
Rondinel-Oviedo, D., Keena, N., Pomasonco-Alvis, M. (2024, March 14-16). Future Use Architecture: Connecting housing policy, housing typology, and Resource Use for housing in Canada [Presented by: Rondinel-Oviedo, D.]. 2024 ACSA 112th Annual Meeting Disrupters on the edge, Vancouver, Canada.
2023
Noronha, L., Hajduk, A., Crouzat, S.,Dyson, A., Lokko, M., Prince, S., Tuya, S., Salam, A., Guillot, T., Reck, B., Sharples, C., Keena, N. (2023, September 19) High-Level Dialogue on "Building Materials and the Climate - Constructing the Future'', Yale Club, New York, United States of America.
Dyson, A., Keena, N., Lokko, M., Reck, B.K., Ciardullo, C. (2023). Press Release: United Nations Environment Programme, & Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture. Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future.
Keena, N. And Friedman, A. (2023, April 13-15). From Trace Paper to Digital Tools: Computation for Yield Analysis. Digitalization, Data, and Housing Design. At Beyond Single Use: Open Building Council, Architecture & Urban Design Conference. Boston.
Keena, N. (2023). Circular Economy and the Built Environment. Arup's Americas Circular Economy Skills Network. Arup, Montreal.
Keena, N. And Friedman, A. (2023, June 14-16). A Data Visualization Web Application for Planning Sustainable Cities in a Circular Economy. AMPS Conference on Livable Cities – New York: A Conference on Issues Affecting Life in Cities. New York.
Keena, N. and Friedman A. (2023, May 25-28). Data Homebase: A web application visualizing Canada’s housing characteristics to foster a circular economy. Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Annual Conference and Trade Show, Toronto, Ontario.
Keena, N., Friedman, A. and Oeser, A. (2023, May 26). How the McGill School of Architecture used Data Visualization to Innovate the Housing Circular Economy [Presented by: Keena, N. and Oeser A.]. At Evolve Drupal Hosted by Evolving Web, Montreal, Quebec.
Keena, N., Rondinel-Oviedo, D. & Acevedo-De-los-Ríos, A. (2023, September 4-6). Greenhouse gas emissions from residential building and circular economy mitigation strategies [Presented by: Keena, N.]. World Resources Forum 2023, Geneva, Switzerland (hybrid event)
2022
Keena, N. (2022, November 6-18). Building our future – The potential of buildings and building materials for a climate neutral world. [Presented by: Keena, N.] . COP 27 - UN Climate Change Conference, Egypt (hybrid event)
Keena, N. (2022, September 21). Transition Pathways Toward a Regenerative Built Environment. [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Special Forum at SBE Conference, Bauhaus Earth, Berlin, Germany
Keena, N. (2022, June 08). Deep Dive Webinar: Circular Solutions for the Urban Built Environment - Construction & Demolition Waste and the role of Digitalization (online)
Dyson, A., Keena, N., Lokko, M. (2022, May 5). Biomaterials Supporting the Transition to a Circular Built environment in the Global South [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Online event ‘Can biomaterials become the building blocks for the 21st Century?’ Yale University CEA and UNEP, New Haven, USA.
Keena, N. (2022, May 17). Architecture and Circular Economy. [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Symposium organized by l’Ordre des architectes du Québec and Architecture Sans Frontières, Montréal, Canada.
Keena, N. (2022, June 01-03). Decarbonization of the Built Environment. [Presented by: Keena, N.]. Green Building Council Costa Rica, IX International Congress of Sustainable Cities, Costa Rica.
2021
Circular Economy and the Built Environment: From Housing to Data. TISEDTalks - McGill Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, Montréal, Canada.
Keena, N. (2021, June 24-25) New enterprises for integrating architectural material life cycle phases. ( [Presented by: Keena, N.]. 2021 ACSA/EAAE Teachers. Conference | Curriculum for Climate Agency: Design (in)Action - Online Conference, New York, USA
2020
Circular Built Environment Supporting Innovations in Cities. (Presenter and Panelist). UN SBC event at UN Habitat 10th World Urban Forum, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
State of Play for Circular Built Environment in North America, Europe, and Middle East: Key findings from regional reports on circularity in the built environment. (Presenter and Panelist). World Circular Economic Forum. Online Side Event, UN SBC, Toronto, Canada.
Socio-Ecological Visual Analytics (SEVA): Data, Design and Knowledge, (Presenter and Panelist). Yale School of Management, Data and the Environment, New Haven, USA.
Mapping the Built Environment Process (BEP) Ecosystem via a Data to Knowledge Framework. AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: Carbon. Pennsylvania State University, virtual conference, State College, USA.
Built Environment Ecosystem Unit Framework towards Sustainable Urban Housing. World Sustainable Built Environment (WSBE) Conference: Beyond 2020, Online conference, Gothburg, Sweden.
2019
What can be brought from Europe to the Global South and what can Europe learn from other continents (Panelist), United Nations Sustainable Built Environment Knowledge Sharing Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
Case study: Real-time Collection and Visualization of Data from the Ecological Living Module – an eco-house which tackles climate change migration - through a web-based-platform named SEVA. Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange, Bloomberg Building, New York, NY
The benefit of integrating emergy synthesis and LCA towards more comprehensive analysis of advanced building systems. 10th Biennial Emergy Conference University of Florida, Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL
2016
Designing Built Ecologies: Investigating the Potential of Emergy Analysis. Presented at the 32nd Passive & Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference on Cities, Buildings, People: Towards Regenerative Environments, LA, CA
Interactive Visualization for Interdisciplinary Research. Electronic Imaging Conference, Society for Imaging Science and Technology, San Francisco, CA
Towards a Visualization Framework to Evaluate the Emergy of Built Ecologies. 9th Biennial Emergy Conference University of Florida, Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL