MON-A05 - Are We Overstating Resiliency as the Most Imminent “National Security Concern ”?

Monday, November 22, 2021

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM CDT

Location: Music City Center, Room 102

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Manisha Kaul, ASLA, PLA, CDT, LEED AP

Principal
Design Workshop, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois

Speaker(s)

HM

Heather M. Morgan, ASLA

Climate Risk Adaptation NYC Metro Region Lead
AECOM
Atlanta, Georgia
Jean Kennedy Sleeman, AIA, LEED AP, AUA

University Architect
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

How to integrate resiliency along vulnerable waterfronts while sustaining engagement and inclusion? With targeted funding now being aimed at rewarding sustainable flood risk management practices, it is all the more critical to consider systems' interdependence. Is the narrative around resiliency overshadowing its imminent impact on communities and systems most heavily impacted?

Learning Outcomes:

What is the relationship between Resilience and Sustainability? How does the term sustainability encourage us to change our thinking from a human centric view to a systems centric approach?
Learn through examples of resilience-centric planning why it is critical to adapt our timeline and the trajectory of our responsibility to continually inform our sustainability goals.
Explore how Resiliency planning done in a vacuum creates practical dilemmas when implementing projects that are trying to implement state mandates while aspiring for barrier free design and construction.
Understand how a transdisciplinary approach is the catalytic way to comprehensively help institutions, cities and municipalities, that are currently losing valuable ground to enact a holistic resiliency action plan.