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Art+Design+Architecture - Hawaiʻi’s Way of Life as a Compass for the World

August 28, 2025

What is guiding us today? With so many people with different ideas, beliefs and values, what can bind us as a people? This panel will explore how the tenets of Hawaiʻi culture may assist with establishing a way forward that amplifies community and the interconnectedness among all things.

 

Panelists -

  • Aaron Salā, PhD, President & CEO, Hawaiʻi Visitors & Convention Bureau
  • Susan Yamada, Chairman of the Board, PACE
  • Tyler Dos Santos-Tam, District 6 Councilmember, Honolulu City Council
  • Olin Lagon, Serial Social Entrepreneur, Shifted Energy

Moderated by Bettina Mehnert, FAIA, LEED AP, President & CEO, AHL

From left to right: Olin Lagon, Susan Yamada, Bettina Mehnert, Aaron Salā, and Tyler Dos Santos-Tam.

Video Credit: Motion & Story

Photo Credit: AHL

 

About AHL's Art + Design + Architecture Panel Series

How do art, design and architecture connect and collaborate in Hawaiʻi? In 2017, AHL launched a panel series entitled Art + Design + Architecture to encourage community dialogue on the interconnectedness among these fields and how they work together to create innovative responses to challenges in our community. AHL hopes that this panel series can be a catalyst for inspiration, connection and further innovation.

 

Join us for our next panel. Stay tuned for more details coming!

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