FOUNDERS

We created THE MINDFUL COLLABORATIVE to amplify our efforts to meaningfully address the Climate Crisis — multiplying our collective creative energy to contribute to the healing of the Earth.

At heart, we are regenerative designers, yogis, and outdoor explorers. We are lifelong learners, continually inspired by the wisdom embedded across cultures and landscapes. Our work is inseparable from how we live: intentionally, attentively, and in deep relationship with the living systems that sustain us.

We strive to cultivate lives that are authentic and spacious — attuned to our inner rhythms while navigating the pace of contemporary society. As urban homesteaders, we nurture our two children on the forested slopes of North Vancouver, tending soil, observing seasonal cycles, and remaining grounded in the ecosystems that inform our design practice.

We are profoundly grateful to our gracious hosts, the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh)Nations, for the privilege of living, working, and raising our family on their unceded ancestral territories.

The Mindful Collaborative is both our life’s work and our life’s practice — rooted in responsibility, reciprocity, and hope for generations to come.

T. Maginnis Cocivera Principal Co-Founder

T. Maginnis Cocivera is a Registered Architect (AIBC) and holds a Master of Architecture from Dalhousie University. His career bridges visionary systems thinking with large-scale development delivery, bringing together design excellence and implementation expertise.

His master’s thesis explored building-integrated infrastructure that harnesses synergies between energy, water, waste, and food production — an early exploration of regenerative urban systems. The project received the top prize in the Cascadia Green Building Council’s Closing the Loop Design Competition in 2006.

Maginnis began his career with Mario Bellini Associati in Milan, contributing to the Louvre’s Department of Islamic Arts — a globally significant cultural project awarded through international competition. He later joined Busby Perkins+Will in Vancouver, where he worked on two leading-edge sustainable initiatives: Plan Abu Dhabi 2030 and the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) at UBC, one of North America’s most advanced regenerative academic buildings.

For seven years prior to co-founding Mindful Architecture, Maginnis served as Vice President of Development at Polygon Homes, overseeing the delivery of more than 2,000 multifamily homes. His responsibilities spanned land acquisition, rezoning strategy, pro forma analysis, consultant coordination, and construction oversight. He led the creation of an innovative open-plan townhome typology that received the Urban Development Institute’s Award of Excellence in 2014 and has since become an industry benchmark.

At The Mindful Collaborative, Maginnis integrates architectural innovation with financial feasibility and regulatory strategy — ensuring that regenerative ambition translates into deliverable, resilient, and economically viable communities.

Geneviève Noël Principal Co-Founder

Geneviève Noël is a visionary inventor and regenerative designer committed to restoring a symbiotic relationship between the built environment and the Earth. Her work actively contributes to the valourization of Indigenous culture by integrating ancestral land-based wisdom with contemporary ecological innovation.

Geneviève creates opportunities for the reintegration of biodiversity and food security within urban environments. Through systems thinking and material innovation, she orchestrates unexpected circular economies — transforming post-consumer and industrial waste streams into durable, life-affirming products that support ecological regeneration.

She holds a Bachelor of Design from Emily Carr University and a Permaculture Design Certificate from the Permaculture Research Institute. As Founder of MINDFUL ISYNERGIES, she designed and patented a Cradle to Cradle Certified living wall system that has been commercialized internationally, reintroducing living systems into dense urban contexts.

Her material innovations include the conception of Medulla Regenerative Insulation, a carbon-storing thermal system, and the co-creation of DCarb Carbon-Negative Concrete, which supports marine-based carbon sequestration.

In recognition of her leadership, MINDFUL INNOVATIONS received the Small Business BC Sustainable Leadership Award (2009) and was selected in 2023 among the Game Changers: Leading Companies in Natural Product Innovation for Medulla Insulation.

Aligned with her regenerative mission, Geneviève has personally planted over one million trees along the West Coast of British Columbia.

She is proudly Québécoise — of French Canadian and Indigenous ancestry — and remains deeply committed to cultural continuity, ecological restoration, and intergenerational responsibility.