NEW BEDFORD AND FAIRHAVEN
SPEAKER SERIES
The Envision Resilience New Bedford and Fairhaven Challenge's six-week Speaker Series brings renowned speakers from around the country to deliver inspiring and informative lectures on sea level rise through the lens of everything from finance and historic policy to human dynamics and decision-making. Lectures are open to participating teams and students, and recordings will be available to the community the following day.
Session 1
Introduction and Overview of New Bedford and Fairhaven
August 28
Speakers
Kathryn Duff, Founder & Director, studio2sustain inc
Anjelica S. Gallegos, Designer, Page Southerland Page and Director, Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning, and Design
Alison Smart, Executive Director, Probable Futures
Skylah Reis, Marine Biology Masters Student, University of Cambridge
Suggested Reading
Indigenous Knowledge Systems Initiative Working Syllabus
September 11
Session 2
Human Dynamics, Equity and Decision Making in Community Planning
Speakers
Yanel de Angel, FAIA, Principal, Managing Director at Perkins & Will, Boston
A Workshop on Community Decision-Making led by Dr. Wendy-Lin Bartels of the Natural Resource Leadership Institute
Suggested Reading
ResilientSEE is affiliated with AREA Research, a non-profit organization that connects the design professions, academia, and research institutions, and supports innovative research to improve the built environment, and by extension, the lives of its inhabitants.
September 25
Speakers
Lily Song, Assistant Professor of Race and Social Justice in the Built Environment at Northeastern University
Michaela Accardi, Senior Program Director at Enterprise Community Partners’ Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge
Christi Smith, Director of the Rocky Mountain Programs at Enterprise Community Partners’ Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge
Session 3
Affordable Housing and Equitable Opportunity
Suggested Reading
October 2
Session 4
Trends in Climate Modeling, Adaptation and Migration
Suggested Reading
An Offering from the Bayou by Colette Pichon Battle as featured in “All We Can Save” (2020 collection of essays and poetry edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson)
Speakers
Andrea Dutton, Geologist, MacArthur Fellow | Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Geoscience
Colette Pichon Battle, Vision and Initiatives Partner, Taproot Earth and Founder and Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy
October 23 Midterm Review
November 6
Session 5
Infrastructure and Designing/Engineering with Nature (EWN)
Speakers
Todd Bridges, Retired U.S. Army Corps, Professor of Practice, Resilient and Sustainable Systems, University Of Georgia
Michael Blier, FASLA, Founding Principal, Design Director, Landworks Studio
Speakers
Kelly Alvarez Doran, Director of Ha/f Climate Design
Jonsara Ruth, Co-Founder and Design Director of Healthy
Materials Lab (HML) at Parsons School of Design and Associate
Professor and Founding Director of the MFA Interior Design Program
November 13
Session 6
Sustainable Design and Regenerative Technologies
December 11 Final Jury Review
Final Jury Review Session 1
Final Jury Review Session 2
