Following the success of previous editions in Venice and Chicago, the next edition of Shaping the City is scheduled to take place on the 5th and 6th of October, 2023, in New Orleans at the AIA, Center for Design and at the F. Taylor Library, Ogden Museum.
5 October | AIA New Orleans, Center for Design
4.00pm - 9.00pm | Kick-Off Session – VENICE X NEW ORLEANS
6 October | Patrick F. Taylor Library at the Ogden Museum
8.00am - 12.10pm | Session 1 – CATALYSING URBAN CLIMATE RESILIENCE
1.30pm - 5.30pm | Session 2 – ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Shaping the City New Orleans will introduce a new lens, “Designing for the Climate Emergency”, featuring new design solutions presented by case studies from across the globe. The overarching mission of Shaping the City is to share knowledge and best practices, while fostering new international collaborations for threatened cities and communities worldwide.
Shaping the City is a forum created by the European Cultural Centre as part of the public programming of the ECC Venice Architecture Biennial Exhibition titled Time Space Existence. Shaping the City New Orleans is organised in collaboration with NANO Architects and with the support of New Orleans & Company and AIA New Orleans.
Shaping the City tackles contemporary urbanisation and key issues in the city, presented and debated through the perspectives of a group of academics, urban planners and designers, architects, policy makers, and scholars. Through diverse presentations and panel discussions, the forum confronts the fundamental topics of shaping the cities in the world.
The forum is conceived to exchange ideas about the urban future of cities. The evolving discussions recognise the significant role urban planning and design play in molding the interaction of people with their cities and their wellbeing. The forum sets forward new thoughts around the rights to the city, through a spatial, pragmatic, yet inclusive and sustainable approach.
Why New Orleans?
Climate change is among the most significant challenges facing major cities worldwide. From floods and hurricanes to wildfires and desertification, extreme weather circumstances are only growing in number and impact. These threats are magnified in coastal cities such as Venice and New Orleans, both of whose low-lying geography make them particularly vulnerable to the threat of rising sea levels and extreme weather events. As a city with a unique history, geography, and urban fabric, New Orleans provides a rich and complex framework for examining the relationship between cultural legacy and sustainable urban development through the lens of environmental justice.
Designing for Climate Emergency
Climate change is among the most significant challenges facing major cities worldwide. From floods and hurricanes to wildfires and desertification, extreme weather circumstances are only growing in number and impact. These threats are magnified in coastal cities such as Venice and New Orleans, both of whose low-lying geography make them particularly vulnerable to the threat of rising sea levels and extreme weather events.
As a city with a unique history, geography, and urban fabric, New Orleans provides a rich and complex framework for examining the relationship between cultural legacy and sustainable urban development through the lens of environmental justice. Shaping the City New Orleans will bring together both local and international architecture, urban planning, and policy leaders to engage in two days of meaningful exchange about the urgent need for forward-thinking solutions. A variety of panel discussions and presentations throughout the two day program will explore design approaches and facilitate international collaboration. Topics will include the shared threats of climate change in Venice and New Orleans, combating environmental injustice, and a new lens unique to this event, “Designing for Climate Emergency”.
Building systemic and equitable resistance to these growing climate threats will require innovative solutions and international collaboration. Shaping the City New Orleans will be an unprecedented opportunity for urban leaders to share their work and to introduce new approaches to sustainable design and planning.
Speakers
Đoàn Thanh Hà, Founder & Principal Architect of the H&P Architects; Md. Ehsanul Hoque, Assistant Environment Officer at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); Francisco Rodríguez-Suárez, Architect, Fellow of the AIA, Director of The Illinois School of Architecture, ACSA Distinguished Professor, Clayton T. Miers Professor; Fransje Hooimeijer, Professor at the University of Technology Delft, Netherlands; Ian and Terri Dreyer, Managing Partner of NANO LLC; Isabella Hillman-Girod, Architect & Teaching Assistant Professor at the Illinois School of Architecture; Megan Born, Associate Partner of Field Operations; Peter Spera, Principal & Co-founder of GOAT; and others.
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Shaping the City New Orleans 2023Type
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October 05, 2023 04:00 PMUntil
October 06, 2023 05:30 PMVenue
AIA New Orleans, Center for Design and Patrick F. Taylor Library at the Ogden MuseumAddress