By Alexander Landa
The City of Boston's Living With Water Design Competition called for international teams to submit designs to increase Boston's climate change resiliency and overall sustainability. A group of green building leaders and social activists issued a challenge, called Thriving With Water, which encouraged participants to set a higher goal for their competition entries, and work to transform the problem of climate change into an opportunity to create a more economically, socially, environmentally, and culturally vibrant and sustainable Boston. Challenge components included: – Work with people and organizations – Explicitly recognize the relationships between human, natural, and social systems – Design for the dynamic nature of coastal areas – Design for long-term resiliency. This session presents a model that is grounded in the belief that to regenerate the vital life of our coastal communities we need to support that life-our life-with a dynamic environment and thriving people and organizations.
Andrea Atkinson Executive Director One Square World
Jim Newman LEED AP O+M Partner Linnean Solutions
Adeola Oredola Consultant
David Queeley Director, Eco-Innovation Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corp
Dr. Sarah Slaughter CEO and President Built Environment Coalition
B49 – Thriving in an Age of Rising Seas
Wednesday, 11/16
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Room 157B