Six university partners—including two from the University of Massachusetts system—have been selected for the third iteration of the Envision Resilience Challenge taking place in New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, this fall as students develop innovative solutions for coastal communities to adapt to sea level rise.

Austin Hsu completed the Envision Resilience Narragansett Bay Challenge in 2022 and changed his career plans to return to Taiwan as a city planner. In January 2023, he and the other students in the Challenge won the Rhode Island APA student awards for their work. In this article, he describes his artistic process to create his unique designs for Warren, RI. From drawing most of his designs by hand to including a unique comic strip, Austin’s creativity is undeniable.

The Envision Resilience Challenge, a semester-long design studio connecting interdisciplinary university teams with coastal communities to inspire adaptive and creative solutions to the challenges of sea level rise and climate change, will take place in New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts in the fall of 2023.

The six university teams that participated in the 2022 Envision Resilience Narragansett Bay Challenge to design creative solutions to sea level rise have won the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA-RI)'s annual student award, ReMain Nantucket announced today.

Anjelica S. Gallegos took part in ReMain Nantucket’s inaugural Envision Resilience Challenge and in 2022 we welcomed Anjelica back, this time as a juror. We got to learn more about Anjelica’s invaluable work in ensuring that Indigenous architectural knowledge gains recognition and gets upheld throughout the fields of architecture, planning and design and how those goals tied into her Envision Resilience project.

Residents of the coastal town of Warren, Rhode Island, experience daily reminders of sea level rise, and now a mural, painted by artist Josie Morway, inspired by the writings of novelist Elizabeth Rush and supported by public art organization The Avenue Concept, reminds them as well.

Karl and Susan Ottison are fourth-generation owners of their Nantucket Orange Street property. For as long as they remember, from their land that sits right up against the The Creeks Preserve, they’ve watched storms roll in and out and the tides slowly rise.

Join in on a conversation with Linda Stevenson to learn a little more about what drew the UF Historic Preservation program to Envision Resilience, and the unique goals they worked to achieve this year.

Bob Rulli has been a critical partner, advisor and ally throughout the duration of the 2022 Envision Resilience Narragansett Bay Challenge. Both a planner and a leader on the front lines of climate change, Bob initiated the Market to Metacom Climate Resilience and Economic Development Plan. I recently sat down with Bob to talk about the impact that working with design students, as well as students across disciplines, can have on a community facing challenging decisions around issues related to climate change

Upon reaching the pinnacle event showcase of this year's Narragansett Bay Challenge, we are looking back on the past two years with our returning Northeastern team. To better understand Northeastern's experience with Envision Resilience, I spoke with two participating students, as well as assistant professor Sara Jensen Carr, who led the Envision Resilience studio for the past two years.

PROVIDENCE, R.I.---The Envision Resilience: Designs for Living with Rising Seas exhibition opens with a free community open house on Saturday, June 4 at the WaterFire Arts Center in Providence, Rhode Island. The exhibition, which runs from June 4 through June 26, will feature adaptive designs by participating university teams in the 2022 Envision Resilience Narragansett Bay Challenge.

Jolie Jaycobs spent her youngest years jumping in and out of playful waves on Nantucket Island, one of the most eastern towns in the United States, 30 miles from Massachusetts’ mainland coast. In this blog, she writes about the impact that had on her understanding of resilience.

A fifth-generation Nantucketer, Ginger Andrews is a well-known name around the island when it comes to preservation and climate efforts. She believes in looking at our island’s foundations before we figure out what steps need to be taken next; digging up and looking at Nantucket’s roots.

Two-thirds of Nantucket residents say they are more engaged on issues of climate change and coastal resilience than they were in 2021, according to a survey report released today by ReMain Nantucket’s Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge team. The second in a two-part survey to measure community attitudes about climate change was conducted in January and February 2022.

Last year, ReMain Nantucket's Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge survey found that 73% of Nantucketers are alarmed about climate change, a rate much higher than the national average of 33%. As part of the continued effort to expand and measure attitudes about climate change and sea level rise, they opened the second in their two-part survey this week.

The Envision Resilience Challenge, developed by ReMain Nantucket to encourage university students to develop adaptive and creative solutions to sea level rise, announced this week it will expand to its second coastal community—Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island.

Alex Renaud, a student of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Architecture at Northeastern University and a participant in the Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge, reflects on the island community and its ability to adapt.

As part of the Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge, a pop-up art installation will be unveiled on Friday, Oct. 8 at 6:30 p.m, ReMain Nantucket announced today. Through projection-mapping art, “Rising Above” will tell the history and envision the future of the island’s resilience. The installation will be projected across the water onto the backside of 4 Old North Wharf, the scallop shanty of fifth-generation Nantucketer Ginger Andrews.

Cassandra Lanson, ‘24 BLA Landscape Architecture and Environmental Science, describes the push and pull of the freedom to design without constraints for a place you’ve never been and the parallel feelings of being unbound. Read more about her design proposal for pocket ecology parks focused on ecological autonomy and relying on the marshland plant community that already existed in the Creeks, to expand it up the coast.

Envision advisor Dr. Sarah Treanor Bois explores the impact of our changing climate on Nantucket’s plant and animal life through a variety of projects in phenology, the study of nature’s cyclic and seasonal ongoings—particularly in relation to climate change.