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Apparently a lot of you found @paninimonini‘s incompetence on Instagram amusing. Fair point. And turns out, we (really she) is not above self deprecation for the social media engagement our marketing mentor keeps telling us to do (thank you, Harneet!) So to please the SEO gods, here’s a reel, please engage or whatever so we keep Harneet happy! @kwoktoberfest @cityofkitchener @dtkitchener @explorewaterlooregion #arisearchitects #workerowned #architectscooperative #kitchenerarchitecture #canadianarchitecture #oktoberfest #kitchener #waterloo #waterlooregion

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2025

October

Arise Architects joins the 2025 cohort of the Social Purpose Real Estate National Accelerator at the Infrastructure Institute in partnership with the Working Centre.
Yvonne speaks at The Labor of Architecture book launch and panel discussion.

September

Directors Paniz and Yvonne participate in the “Women in Architecture” event organized by BRIDGE at Waterloo Architecture.
Directors Paniz and Yvonne join the second cohort of Disrupting Gender Bias in Startups (DGBS) at the Accelerator Centre, held in partnership with the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region (SASC).

August

Founding Director, Yvonne, graduates as part of the first cohort of the Accelerator Centre’s Incubate+ program.

May

Yvonne joined Architecture Lobby Toronto (Tkaronto) Panel on Building Alternative Systems of Practice as part of their May Day Event Series.

April

Featured on Editorial: Designing Practice by Elsa Lam for the Canadian Architect.

January

Yvonne speaks at the Toronto Society of Architects’ Ideas Forum on Labour in Architecture.

2021

Yvonne presents on RAIC’s webinar “Architecture cooperatives: a model for the future of professional practice” as part of the “Foundations of Practice” Series.
Featured in the Legacy Leadership Lab’s Social Acquisition Case Studies.
Featured by the Conversion to Co-operatives Project as a case study.

2019

Guelph Firm Pioneers Co-Operative Architectural Practice in Canada by Canadian Architect
Local Firm Pioneers Co-Operative Architectural Practice in Canada by Globe News Wire
Canadian architecture firm transitions to worker cooperative by National Co-operative Business Association | ClUSA
Canadian architecture firm becomes worker co-op by Anca Voinea for the Co-op News.