Imagining adaptive climate futures by convening local leaders and design students. Thank you to our 2024 academic partners: Cornell University Harvard University Graduate School of Design University at Buffalo University of Maine at Augusta University of Michigan University of Virginia University of Toronto - John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Explore the three phases of the Envision Resilience Challenge in our 2024 Portland and South Portland semester film: https://lnkd.in/eFuvThxf
Envision Resilience
建筑与规划
Boston，MA 234 位关注者
Imagining a world where communities can adapt and thrive in a changing climate.
关于我们
Envision Resilience works to advance innovative city planning and design in the face of climate change through student and community partnerships. By connecting current and future professionals working across disciplines, the organization creates opportunities for communities to reimagine climate challenges and inspire resilient solutions. Envision Resilience, originally developed by Remain, is part of the philanthropic organizations and initiatives created and funded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt to work toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all.
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https://www.envisionresilience.org/
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- 建筑与规划
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- 2-10 人
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- Boston，MA
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- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 2025
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US，MA，Boston，02111
Envision Resilience员工
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The Envision Resilience: Designs for Living in a Changing Climate exhibition is now open at the Portland Public Library, inviting visitors to explore bold, forward-thinking solutions for a more resilient future. As communities across Maine face rising sea levels, intensifying storms and the challenges of climate adaptation, this exhibition serves as both a reflection and a call to action. Featuring innovative designs from students participating in the 2024 Envision Resilience Portland and South Portland Challenge—alongside illustrations by Portland-based artist Lin Snow and curated by local artist Brian Smith—it highlights new possibilities for reimagining neighborhoods, working waterfronts and public spaces in response to a changing climate. Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening as part of Portland Creative’s First Friday Art Walk and to our wonderful academic and local partners who support the Challenge. The exhibition remains on view through March 15—visit the library today to see these inspiring ideas firsthand. ??: by Nick Eaton, Life in Focus Photography Cornell University Harvard University Graduate School of Design University at Buffalo University of Maine at Augusta University of Michigan University of Virginia Yale University University of Toronto
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We’re thrilled to announce the Envision Resilience: Designs for Living in a Changing Climate exhibition series, opening next month in Portland, Maine!? This thought-provoking series highlights visionary designs from interdisciplinary teams representing eight universities, all tackling the critical challenges of climate adaptation. Through local artwork and innovative design, the exhibition explores how creativity and collaboration can help build resilient coastal communities for future generations.? Join us in celebrating the power of ingenuity to inspire action and create meaningful change. Learn more about the exhibition and its mission to drive climate resilience at https://lnkd.in/ewv6GbjQ We hope to see you there!? #ClimateAction #Innovation #Resilience #DesignForGood #Sustainability??
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Join the 2024 Envision Resilience cohort next weekend at the Portland Public Library for the opening weekend of Envision Resilience: Designs for Living in a Changing Climate exhibition. An opening event will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, February 7 in conjunction with Creative Portland’s First Friday Art Walk in the Portland Public Library’s Community Gallery. On Saturday, February 8, return to the library for the exciting opportunity to meet with design students from the 2024 cohort for a community discussion on envisioning resilient futures from 3-5 p.m. in the Portland Public Library’s Rines Auditorium. Student panelists include Eloisa DeGroote and Rohan Glendinning of University of Maine at Augusta, Garrett Craig-Lucas of Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Amanda Carmen Bower of Cornell University. Register to either or both events via our EventBrite page: https://lnkd.in/enJKB-mF We look forward to a weekend filled with important conversations about adaptation, community-centered design and resilience planning. See you there!
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It’s been four years since I completed my first landscape architecture studio as part of the Envision Resilience design challenge. Upon revisiting, it struck me that The Pocket Ecology, by far my most successful project in terms of public traction, is quite distant from traditional landscape architecture. I’m not sure I’d even call it a landscape architecture project. Being a design novice at that stage in my undergrad, fresh off of restoration ecology classes, I knew no better than to propose radical things (turn everything into a salt marsh). I doubt I would suggest the same project now, being too grounded in real-world systems and having a better grip on landscape architectural norms (perhaps I should have considered the built environment). For that reason, however, I will always love this project. The phrase that underpins the work rings in my ears as a salient reminder: now is not the time for shy design. Despite breaking the rules and being unapologetically bold, people connected with this project, and in many ways, I still do too. In honor of its ethos, I’ve spent the last two years updating key graphics from The Pocket Ecology. I figured it was worth sharing as a reminder to design boldly, to be compassionately critical of old work, and to - if you feel so compelled - better it. Thanks again to Remain for such a great project opportunity.
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Thank you, Cassandra Lanson for sharing this beautiful narrative of your work from the original Envision Resilience Challenge in 2021 on Nantucket, until today. The iterative and dedicated approach to continually improving your work is a testament to your professionalism and work ethic as a designer. Design outcomes from any semester remain alive and continue to evolve with added insights and lessons from your academic and professional experiences. We continue to be awed and amazed by the powerful student design outcomes year after year in the Envision Resilience Challenge. Bravo!
It’s been four years since I completed my first landscape architecture studio as part of the Envision Resilience design challenge. Upon revisiting, it struck me that The Pocket Ecology, by far my most successful project in terms of public traction, is quite distant from traditional landscape architecture. I’m not sure I’d even call it a landscape architecture project. Being a design novice at that stage in my undergrad, fresh off of restoration ecology classes, I knew no better than to propose radical things (turn everything into a salt marsh). I doubt I would suggest the same project now, being too grounded in real-world systems and having a better grip on landscape architectural norms (perhaps I should have considered the built environment). For that reason, however, I will always love this project. The phrase that underpins the work rings in my ears as a salient reminder: now is not the time for shy design. Despite breaking the rules and being unapologetically bold, people connected with this project, and in many ways, I still do too. In honor of its ethos, I’ve spent the last two years updating key graphics from The Pocket Ecology. I figured it was worth sharing as a reminder to design boldly, to be compassionately critical of old work, and to - if you feel so compelled - better it. Thanks again to Remain for such a great project opportunity.
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Congratulations to Julia and the entire student team at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, led by Professors Kristine Stiphany PhD, AIA and Jason Sowell, for their excellent work in the 2024 Envision Resilience Portland and South Portland Challenge. The students' work exemplifies the importance of connecting current and future professionals working across disciplines to reimagine climate challenges and foster the next generation of architects, landscape architects, designers and practitioners. Equipped with experiences grounded in community-responsive, iterative and creative design processes, participants in the Challenge bring those lessons into the rest of their careers. We applaud all of your hard work, Julia Ferone, and look forward to all of your future endeavors in architecture! ??
As the spring semester begins, I find myself reflecting on my fall design project through the Envision Resilience program, focused on a site in Portland, Maine. Collaborating with eight other institutions selected for this design challenge, my partner and I’s proposal seeks to reimagine the I-295 highway, transforming it into a vibrant waterfront that reconnects Portland’s Back Cove Bay with its surrounding neighborhoods. Leveraging the anticipated impacts of rising sea levels, our phased approach integrates public spaces, ecological preservation, adaptive reuse of infrastructure, and community engagement. In Phase 1 (2030), we envision the introduction of terraces with seating, ramps leading to a preserved salt marsh, and spaces for recreation, such as playgrounds and communal gathering areas. As sea levels rise in Phase 2 (2050), the highway begins its transformation into a multifunctional space, featuring a skate park, a market focused on kelp and eelgrass products, a proposed boulevard, and experimental eelgrass planting beds integrated on the proposed terraces. By Phase 3 (2090), with the highest sea level rise, the highway will be fully pedestrianized, incorporating single-story restaurants and markets further stimulating Portland, Maine’s economy, and creating job opportunities for those living in the proposed affordable housing. Phase 3 will also incorporate bike lanes, while facilitating a seamless connection to the nearby housing through elevated decks. This transformation aims to provide public access to a thriving, sustainable waterfront. The Envision Resilience Studio has been one of the most rewarding and intellectually stimulating experiences during my time at the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning. Envision Resilience University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning Chase Carpenter
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Architect, educator, and urban planner. Designs for social impact, researches housing resilience, writes about cities. Faculty @SUNY-Buffalo
Happy to share University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning Fall 2024 studio work in advance of an exhibition of our project The Portland Shoreway for the Envision Resilience Challenge in Portland, Maine.? ? During the semester, students explored the sources of Lawrence Vale's term "uneven resilience"?on the ground—the unique risks residents face where biophysical, social, and technical vulnerabilities converge?(e.g.,?eviction and sea-level rise). We examined how?six of these convergences?influence the?design of alternative urban scenarios.? ? See map of all project sites relative to SLR at short, medium, and long term time scales, and four projects in detail: ? Willard Beach: Living with the Tides James Metzger,?Bobby Zhao,?Anushka Ahire ? Sprague Terminal: Scaled Energy Transitions Ian DeWald?and?Nayarit Tineo ? Working Waterfront: From Ports to Parks Gavin Carroll?and?Rishabh Chopra ? East End: Wellness on the Water Ana Ines Pereira and Ian Simmons ? Special thanks to all students, Jason Sowell who taught a parallel seminar, research assistants Jorge Ituarte-Arreola and Andrew Castilleja and studio sponsor Remain Nantucket.?
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Climate Positive Design Founder | Harvard GSD Design Critic and Salata Institute Faculty Associate | ASLA Biodiversity + Climate Fellow | Architecture 2030 Senior Fellow
Great piece by A. Krista Sykes documenting the evolution of coastal adaptation through the lens of landscape architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Innovators included here deserve much credit for forging the way for a more equitable, resilient future, including SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC Kate Orff, Pippa Brashear, Gena Wirth, Alexis C. Landes, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, and CMG Landscape Architecture. I'm pleased to be carrying this work forward with folks like Ed Wall, Michael Blier, Envision Resilience Challenge, Charles Waldheim, Cory Page, American Society of Landscape Architects, Kotchakorn Voraakhom, and Climate Positive Design . https://lnkd.in/e_MvGpJk
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Thank you to the The University of Virginia School of Architecture for this wonderful write-up on professor Michael Luegering's course, which participated in the Envision Resilience Challenge for the second year in a row. After the team's site visit to Portland in September, undergraduate architecture student Sheen Wang observed, "Portlanders aren’t afraid to make bold moves to improve the city and how it functions.” Congratulations to the UVA students, professor Luegering and all of our academic partners on their own courageous and collaborative design solutions. You can watch each team's final reviews on our Vimeo page! https://lnkd.in/epkdRNdD