Everything Water 2.0: Building a Resilient Future

Waterfront communities find innovative responses to climate by calling for long-term community engagement and proactive planning. Representatives from communities of various sizes will discuss their future resiliency plans for mitigating the threat of rising sea levels.

This is the second program in a year-long series from the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee that examines our relationship with water and building resilient capacity at all scales.

Speakers: 
Introduction: Illya Azaroff, AIA, Founding Co-Chair, Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee

Walter Meyer, ASLA, LEED-AP, Founding Principal, Local Office Landscape and Urban Design, Far Rockaway Queens
Jennifer Bolstad, ASLA, AIA, LEED-AP, Founding Principal, Local Office Landscape and Urban Design, Far Rockaway Queens
Carter Craft, Senior Econ Officer, Consulate General of the Netherlands in NYC, Visiting Associate Professor, Pratt Institute
Dan Horn, Assoc. AIA, Co-Chair, Operation Resilient Living & Innovation (ORLI+)
Michele Insinga, Executive Director, Adopt A House, founding member Resilient South Shore (Lindenhurst LI), Its South Shore Recovery Coalition
Kathleen Dorgan, FAIA, LEED-AP, Principal, Dorgan Architecture & Planning
Haym Gross, AIA, Director, 2030 District New York

Respondent: Maxinne Rhea Leighton, Assoc. AIA, Director of Marketing and Business Development, Jaros, Baum & Bolles