With the cancellation of A'20, you may have wondered what happened to Design for Climate Action: Intersections Symposium. Well the good news is that we are going ONLINE with two 90-minute educational sessions, 4:00-5:30 pm (EDT), July 28 and 29, offered online through AIAU. Visit AIAU.aia.org, log in or create an account and register today. Free for AIA members and students. $25 for non-members. Register here: https://bit.ly/Intersections2020
Both sessions are included:
- Achieving Climate Action through Practice, Academia & Policy - July 28, 4-5:30 pm | 1.5 HSW, RIBA, GBCI
- Designing Across Scales for Climate Action – July 29, 4-5:30 pm | 1.5 HSW, RIBA, GBCI
Developed with ACSA and selected from more than 120 blind, peer-reviewed projects, the eight projects featured in this symposium have been curated by our Co-Chairs, Phoebe Crisman, AIA, and Kyle Konis, AIA into dynamic, 90-minute sessions. Each session will feature important findings, presented in brief PPT presentations, followed by a moderated discussion and audience Q&A - all focused on DESIGN FOR CLIMATE ACTION!
Co-Chairs/Moderators
Phoebe Crisman, AIA, Professor of Architecture and Director of the interdisciplinary Global Studies program at the University of Virginia, teaches studios and architecture, sustainability, and urban theory courses. She practices with Crisman+Petrus Architects
Kyle Konis, PhD, AIA, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Southern California, teaches building science, sustainability, and environmental courses. His research seeks to develop novel performance metrics, participatory evaluation techniques, data-driven design support tools, and lessons learned from the study of existing buildings and their occupants.
Session summaries and presenters follows:
Achieving Climate Action through Practice, Academia, & Policy: Intersections Symposium 2020 July 28, 2020 4:00-5:30 pm (EDT) 1.5 HSW, RIBA, GBCI
Join us and see how COLLABORATION and REENVISIONING across practice, academia, community, and government can be part of the answer to climate change. Ashlie Latiolais, AIA, shares her work in New Iberia, LA. She suggests new modes and methods of architectural practice and education to inspire a new generation of architects to re-imagine conventional deliverables in architectural community work. Richard Mohler, AIA, describes the climate and social equity challenges created by single-family zoning. He shares the results from a collaboration of his University of Washington design studio, AIA Seattle, and city government to revise public policy to be more aligned with the city's climate and social equity goals. Designer Sasha Plotnikova illustrates how designing for de-growth presents an alternative model to conventional US urban development practices. She gives architects a way to help foster and realize community-based visions of equitable development that is also climate-responsive design. Ann Yoachim, MPH, shares the work of Tulane's Small Center, as a case study. Increased intensity of weather events and failing infrastructure have resulted in regular flooding of streets, homes, and businesses (including the center itself). Responding to immediate needs and planning for potential climate futures are often in conflict, so an engaged design process, related projects, and research offer architecture practice and education an opportunity to respond.
Join us for a lively discussion developing effective changes in practice, policy, and education, to realize climate action.
Presenters:
Ashlie Latiolais, AIA Architect and Associate Professor of Architecture, Univ. of Louisiana / ARCH & also
Richard Mohler, AIA Architect and Associate Professor of Architecture, Univ. of Washington / Mohler + Ghillino
Sasha Plotnikova, Designer, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona
Ann Yoachim, MPH, Director and Professor of Practice, Small Center for Collaborative Design, Tulane University
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Learn how to plant the seeds that blossom into stronger, more sustainable communities. Identify new techniques to respond to the current ecological crises and educate and train (future and current) architects to design buildings that co-exist with the environment, in improved ways from those that have formed the basis of the current environmental emergency.
- Explore new modes and methods of inquiry and architectural practice to re-imagine and create environments that are socially equitable and ecologically sustainable. Create work (projects and research) that contributes directly to the greater public understanding of the role and value of professional architects.
- Understand how outside influences can impact projects and how to stay aware to prevent unintended consequences that negatively impact our environment, our project, and our quality of life. Learn how to advance climate action and environmental stewardship through advising elected officials in revising public policy to be more aligned with climate and social equity goals necessary to address the magnitude of ecological, social, and economic challenges we face.
- Learn how collaboration with clients, community members, stakeholders, and multiple expert groups can facilitate the design and planning process as well as educate and create capacity within the community to advocate for climate action and improved quality of life for all.
Ashlie Latiolais, AIA, NCARB is founding principal of ARCH & also, LLC, and associate professor at the University of Louisiana. Her practice-focused research seeks to redefine the role of architects through multi-scaler projects – at large, with active community-engaged planning efforts, and the small, within residential works and collaborative installations. Her research has been presented at both national and international conferences, and she has received honors including the 2018 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award and 2019 AIA Young Architect.
Richard Mohler, AIA, is an associate professor of Architecture at the University of Washington (UW). He advances housing affordability and sustainability through teaching, practice, research, advocacy, and civic engagement. He leverages his design studios and seminars as vehicles for urban research and social advocacy while bridging the academy, profession, and local government. Rick is Principal with Mohler + Ghillino, a fellow of the UW Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies and Urban@UW. He chairs the AIA Seattle Public Policy Board and serves on the Seattle Planning Commission.
Sasha Plotnikova is a writer, educator, designer, and housing justice organizer living in Los Angeles whose work is concerned with community self-determination through the built environment. She is a proud member of the Los Angeles Tenants Union and the environmental justice research collective OOLA. She has taught at Cal Poly Pomona, edited PLAT Journal, and written for Uneven Earth, Room Journal, MONU, and The Smudge. She has a Master of Architecture from Rice University.
Ann Yoachim is Director of the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design and a Professor of Practice at the Tulane School of Architecture. She is focused on facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration and shaping built, natural, and social environments that impact health and wellness in rural and urban settings. This work has ranged from managing multi-faceted projects on climate change adaptation and resilience to facilitating strategic planning and design thinking efforts for philanthropy. Ann has a Master of Public Health from Tulane, a Bachelor's degree in environmental studies and political science from Dickinson College, and was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2012-13).
Designing Across Scales for Climate Action: Intersections Symposium 2020 | July 29, 4:00-5:30 pm (EDT) | 1.5 LU/HSW, GBCI, RIBA
Today, designers are tackling climate action across a range of scales. Learn about four projects that address material exploration, buildings and systems, landscapes and habitats, and infrastructure. The Pulp studio, by Stephanie Davidson, uses recycled cellulose-based materials to cast temporary, biodegradable, thin-shell structures. She asks designers to see materials as responsive, constantly transforming, and asks them to consider where materials come from and where they end up, when making design decisions. The Pollinators Pavilion by architect Ariane Harrison seeks a larger role for architecture in environmental activism and focuses on biodiversity conservation and materials exploration. She uses artificial intelligence and automated scientific monitoring strategies to create and analyze habitat systems and increase building awareness. Award-winning Salty Urbanism presented by Jeffrey Huber, AIA, features projects in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and Venice, California. These projects use coastal-hazard adaptation approaches and a design framework for urban areas to address economic, engineering, environmental, and quality of life issues. Finally, landscape architect Zaneta Hong's studio research demonstrates how changes in agricultural practices and food systems could address growing global populations and impact climate change, while defining roles of architects and designers in transforming future landscapes and material systems.
Presenters:
Stephanie Davidson, Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, Canada / Davidson Rafailidis
Ariane Harrison, PhD, AIA, Principal and Coordinator of MS Programs, Harrison Atelier / GAUD Pratt Institute
Zaneta Hong, Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture, Univ. of Virginia / Alterior Office
Jeffrey Huber, AIA, Principal / Director and Associate Professor School of Architecture, Florida Atlantic University / Brooks + Scarpa
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Discover multiple ways to collaboratively address climate change and positively impact the public's health, safety, and welfare, through innovative design and materials development that address water and storm water management, materials, and species extinction.
- Attendees will learn ways that artificial intelligence technology impacts architecture and can improve our ability to design more resilient and sustainable ecosystems.
- Discover new tools and design methodologies, using a multi-scale approach, that helps connect segregated disciplines, such as urban planning and environmental engineering with architecture, to meet complex challenges of urban development and water rise, while also generating action between bottom-up design thinking and top-down policy and planning.
- Discover how we should be planning and designing today for our future global needs. Understand why mindful building processes, handling of resources (including material decisions), and awareness of our impact on the environment are critical to climate action. Action must begin now so that climate action successfully makes its way further into the construction industry's education and practice.
Stephanie Davidson is an assistant professor at the Ryerson School of Interior Design in Toronto, Canada. Davidson has worked for German offices sauerbruch hutton and Gonzalez Haase, as well as Montreal's Provencher Roy. Since 2008, she has collaborated with Georg Rafailidis as Davidson Rafailidis. The duo was recognized with the Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York in 2018. Davidson co-authored a book on beginning design called Processes of Creating Space: An Architectural Design Workbook (Routledge, 2017). She earned a degree in fine arts from Mount Allison University, studied architecture at the Architectural Association and Dalhousie University, and earned her MArch.
Ariane Lourie Harrison, PhD, AIA, is a Principal and co-founder of Harrison Atelier, a registered architect in New York, and coordinator in Architecture and Urban Design at the GAUD, Pratt Institute. She was a critic at the Yale School of Architecture from 2006 to 2017. Her projects and writing center on building for multiple species, from her anthology, Architectural Theories of the Environment: Posthuman Territory (Routledge, 2013) to Feral Architecture, in Aesthetics Equals Politics (MIT Press, 2019). She earned her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; her MArch from GSAPP Columbia University; and her AB from Princeton University.
Zaneta Hong is an assistant professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia, where she teaches courses on material ecologies, landscape technologies, and sustainable practices. Her work has been recognized by the Graham Foundation and Environmental Design Research Association, and she received the 2018-19 Garden Club of America Rome Prize Fellowship and a MacDowell Fellowship. In addition to teaching, Zaneta is the Co-Director of Alterior Office and a Research + Design Consultant for GA Collaborative.
Jeffrey E. Huber, AIA, Assoc. ASLA, NCARB, LEED AP, is Principal, Director of Urban Design and Planning, Brooks + Scarpa Architects, South Florida office. Jeff is also an associate professor and Director of Architecture at Florida Atlantic University. His work combines ecological, landscape, urban, and architectural design with a focus on resiliency and adaptation. His work has garnered 100+ national and international design awards and has been published in Architect Magazine, Residential Architect, Metropolis, The Plan Journal, Architectural Record, and more. Salty Urbanism received an AIA National Institute Honor Award in 2018 and Jeff received the AIA National Young Architects Award in 2017. He earned a MArch from the University of Florida and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Florida International University.
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Dr. Nissa Dahlin-Brown, Assoc. AIA
Director, Higher Education
The American Institute of Architects
Washington, DC
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