The Envision Resilience Challenge, a coastal resilience initiative that connects academia, local leadership and community members, inspires coastal communities to envision innovative approaches to the impacts of climate change. The design studio calls on multidisciplinary student teams of architects and landscape architects, designers, engineers, environmental scientists, naturalists, journalists and artists to reimagine coastal communities and propose imaginative solutions to the current and future impact of sea level rise.
The Envision Resilience Challenge sites are traditional territory of the Wampanoag, Nauset, Tommokomoth, Narragansett, Pokanoket and other Algonquian-speaking peoples. As architects, planners, designers and visionaries of built environments, it is contextually relevant and imperative to include the Indigenous peoples’ history with sites of built or unbuilt projects. The Envision Resilience Challenge recognizes and learns from the Indigenous historic and current state of affairs as we connect academia, local leadership and community members to design methods of adapting to an ever-changing climate.
Read about ReMain Nantucket’s Indigenous Knowledge Systems Initiative (IKSI) and full Tribal Land Acknowledgement here.
