Envision Resilience works to advance innovative city planning and design in the face of climate change through student and community partnerships. By connecting current and future professionals working across disciplines, the organization creates opportunities for communities to reimagine climate challenges and inspire resilient solutions. Envision Resilience, originally developed by Remain, is part of the philanthropic organizations and initiatives created and funded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt to work toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all.
The 2024 Portland and South Portland Challenge Exhibition Series is now on display! Learn more here.
The Envision Resilience Challenge sites to date are traditional territory of the historically referenced tribes of Abenaki, Aucocisco, Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Nahaganset, Narragansett, Nauset, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Pokanoket, Tommokomoth, Wabanaki, Wampanoag 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 Envision Resilience’s Indigenous Knowledge Systems Initiative (IKSI) and full Tribal Land Acknowledgement here.
