NARRAGANSETT BAY SPEAKER SERIES
The Envision Resilience Narragansett Bay Challenge's 12-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.
January 26
Speakers
Bob Miklos, Architect, Founding Principal of designLAB architects, Technical Coordinator of the Envision Resilience Challenge
Teresa Crean, Barrington Director of Planning, Building and Resiliency
Curt Spalding, Principal, Spalding Environment/Climate Strategies, Professor of the Practice for the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, former USEPA New England Region 1 Administrator, former Executive Director at Save The Bay
Suggested Reading
Video by Dr. Christopher Pastore – Research on the environmental history from first European settlement in 1636 through industrialization during the 19thcentury
February 2
Speakers
Anne Tate, Professor, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Architecture
Stephen White, Dean and Professor Roger Williams University Architecture
Dr. Austin Becker, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island
Suggested Reading
February 9
Speakers
Rebecca Lamond, Supervising Planner, Town of North Kingstown
Teresa Crean, Director of Planning, Building and Resiliency, Town of Barrington
Robert Rulli, Director of Planning and Community Development, Town of Warren
February 16
Speaker
Dr. Susanne Moser, Director and Principal Researcher, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting, UMass-Amherst and Antioch University New England
February 23
Suggested Reading
Theme Speakers
Ben Kirtman, Professor, Department of
Atmospheric Sciences - Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Grover Fugate, Former Executive Director, Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC)
Sea Level Rise Modeling and Implications for R.I.
March 2
Speakers
Linda Shi, Cornell Architecture Art Planning, Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning
Arnold Robinson, Fuss & O’Neill Regional Director of Planning, Former Associate Dean for Community Engagement at RWI
Suggested Reading
Human Dynamics and Decision Making Lecture recording here with Robert Lempert Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition; Principal Researcher; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School and AR Siders Core faculty at Disaster Research Center and Assistant Professor Biden School of Public Policy and Administration at University of Delaware
Shi, Linda, and Andrew M. Varuzzo. “Surging Seas, Rising Fiscal Stress: Exploring Municipal Fiscal Vulnerability to Climate Change.” Cities, vol. 100, 3 Oct. 2018, p. 102658., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102658.
March 9
Speaker
Chris Reed, Co-Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design Degree Program, Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Bren Smith, Co-Executive Director, Greenwave
Suggested Reading
Elizabeth Rush, “The Password: Jacob’s Point, Rhode Island” (pp.1-15), Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2018.
Lauret Savoy, “Prologue: Thoughts on a Frozen Pond,” “The View from Point Sublime,” and “Provenance Notes” (pp.1-30), Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape, Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2015.
Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister, “Introduction: Ecological Thinking, Design Practices” and “Parallel Genealogies” (pp.14-39 ), Projective Ecologies, Cambridge and New York: Harvard Graduate School of Design and ACTAR, 2014.
Bren Smith, Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer, New York: Knopf, 2019.
March 16
Suggested Reading
Design With Love, At Home in America (Introduction) by Katie Swenson | Photography by Harry Connolly
Justice Is Beauty: MASS Design Group Book (Introduction) by Alan Ricks and Michael Murphy
Previous lectures
Sea level rise, Flooding and Living with water through Design: Lecture recording here with Iñaki Alday
Dean, Richard Koch Chair in Architecture, Tulane School of Architecture and Founder, aldayjover architecture and landscape and Dr. Kristina Hill
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
March 23
Speakers
Nicole Verdi, Senior Manager of Government Affairs and Policy at Orsted
Pamela Cotter, Policy Director, Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT)
Meredith Brady, Administrator, Division of Planning at the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT)
Suggested Reading
Transportation, Mobility and Infrastructure Management Lecture recording here with Kirk Bosma, Senior Coastal Engineer with the Woods Hole Group and Paul Kirshen, Engineering, UMass Boston
March 30
Theme
Midterm Review I
URI, UF, SU present preliminary ideas
April 6
Speaker
Shaun O’Rourke Director, R.I. Infrastructure Bank
Northeastern, RISD, RWU present preliminary ideas
April 13
Speaker
Carolyn Kousky, Executive Director, Wharton Risk Center at U Penn Economics and policy of climate risk
Suggested Reading
Finance and Real Estate Lecture recording here with John Macomber, Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School and Dr. Jesse M. Keenan Associate Professor of Real Estate, School of Architecture, Tulane University
April 20
Coastal and Historic Preservation Policy
Speakers
Lisa Craig, Principal, The Craig Group, SLR adaptation, preservation planning
Mary Bergman, Executive Director, Nantucket Preservation Trust
Presentation
Suggested Reading
Coastal Policy & Historic Policy Lecture recording here with Thomas Ruppert
Attorney and Coastal Planning Specialist, Florida Sea Grant, Read Porter
Senior Staff Attorney Marine Affairs Institute, Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program, Roger Williams University School of Law, Greg Berman
Coastal Processes Specialist, Woods Hole Sea Grant and Cape Cod Cooperative Extension, and Lisa Craig, Principal, Craig Group
Preservation Architecture Studies Lecture recording here with Allan Shulman, University of Miami School of Architecture and Lead on the Miami Beach Buoyant City Report and Jennifer Wellock
Technical Reviewer, Architectural Historian, National Park Service Federal Response