Design for resilience: The challenges of climate change - Smart Growth Florida 2040

This workshop offers participants the opportunity to compare and to apply leading-edge solutions that will help clients, communities, and regions manage their natural resources during change. These design principles will be viewed from the regional, community, and building scales. They will be applied to actual projects, brought by the participants, and discussed in small group peer-consult breakout groups. The breakout group exercises will demonstrate the power of the participatory processes, stakeholder consultation, and design charrette methodology.

Attendance is limited to 48 participants. The session will be interactive and based upon the work in small groups. Each attendee is encouraged to bring a project from his or her current practice that is in programming or early schematic design phase, that is impacted by issues of climate change, sea level rising, and growth management.

All variant conditions of renewable energy, water supply, flooding, and drought will be discussed as an applied topic in the small-group training exercise.

(Part of the Design for the New Decade convention, 10-12 June 2010)

Learning Objectives:

- Examine and compare successful applications of environmental design principles and techniques that address regional and community natural resource challenges and opportunities related to climate change

- Recognize how architects can facilitate changes in state and community growth development patterns

- Participate in peer-reviews of works in progress that aim to apply environmental design principles and practices to real world projects.

Speaker(s): Nancy Rottle ASLA; Donald Watson, FAIA, NCARB; and Daniel Williams, FAIA, APA, NCARB
Provider(s): AIA Committee on the Environment