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

Speakers

Kishore Varanasi, AICP - Senior Principal, Director of Urban Design


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


FINAL JURY REVIEW

Review I - December 9

Review II - December 12