PORTLAND AND SOUTH PORTLAND SPEAKER SERIES
The Envision Resilience Speaker Series brings renowned speakers from around the world 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 public the following day.
Session 1
The Past, Present and Future of Portland and South Portland
September 5
Speakers
Seth Goldstein, Director of Development, South Portland Historical Society
Ashley Krulik, Community Resilience Partnership Program Manager, Maine Governor's Office of Policy Innovation and the Future
September 12
Speakers
Addy Smith-Reiman - Planner, North Star Planning and former Executive Director, Portland Society for Architecture
Gretchen Schneider Rabinkin - Executive Director, Boston Society of Landscape Architects
Hannah Baranes - Coastal Scientist, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Curtis Bohlen - Director, Casco Bay Estuary Partnership
Session 2
Local Ecology, Water and Land Management, Climate Impacts
September 19
Speakers
Matthew Littell, LEED AP - Principal, Utile Design
Natasha Kypfer - Senior Planner, City of Portland
Session 3
Housing and Community Development
October 7
October 21
Session 4
Design Inspiration Week
Speakers
Alan Ricks - Co-Executive Director and Founding Principal, MASS Design Group
Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC, NCARB, LEED, AP BD+C - President, American Institute of Architects (AIA)
Bryan C. Lee Jr., NOMAC, AIA, Design Principal, Architect, Colloqate
October 10
Session 5
Climate Science and Adaptation
October 17
Session 6
Regenerative Design
Speakers
Alan Organschi - Principal, Gray Organschi Architecture
Timothy Lock - Management Partner, Opal
October 28
Session 7
Indigenous Knowledge & Design in Practice
Speakers
Miriam Diddy - Miriam Diddy, AICAE, Senior Planner, Pland Collaborative and Region Director - Deserts & Xeric Shrublands, Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning, and Design
Anjelica S. Gallegos - Designer, Page Southerland Page and Director, Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning, and Design
Tama Whiting - Senior Design Consultant, SCAPE