Nicole Nomsa Moyo is an award-winning Urban Designer, Architectural Designer and Seasonal Lecturer at a number of Canada’s top universities. Her passions include humancentric design, master planning, innovative and disruptive sustainable development, community engagement processes, intelligent future thinking and the continent of Africa. In 2019, her work was recognized on multiple international design platforms, including World Architecture Community, Dezeen and ArchDaily, where two of her drawings were chosen among the Best Architecture Drawings of the Year. In 2020, her work “Rising” was selected one of six international finalists for the Miami Design District Commission. FRAME Magazine has also identified her as an “anthropocentric thinker and emerging designer” focusing on future-forward off-grid design concepts. 

In 2015, Moyo presented her award-winning MA thesis, UKUBUTHA, at Africa’s biggest design conference, Design Indaba. UKUBUTHA is directed towards a formative community-based, waste-to-energy management, designed with socially driven architectural solutions. The work was part of a year-long exhibit for the 2019-2020 State of Extremes exhibition at the Design Museum Holon in Israel. In 2018 she was recognized by ANTENNA as one of the World’s Top 20 Design Graduates. 

Moyo completed the professional Masters of Architecture program at Carleton University’s Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism with distinction. Her research was presented at the second UN-Habitat International Conference on Canadian, Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization.