The Faculty of Environmental Design and the Institute for Public Health are hosting a one-day symposium and an evening public lecture on urban resilience, bringing together a group of international thought leaders in disaster recovery, flood design, and resiliency theory.
Focused on flood recovery efforts, the makeCalgary Resilient Symposium on October 18 features presentations and in-depth workshops to provide insights and lessons learned post-flood to a wide-ranging audience of local and regional professionals, architects, public health administrators, government officials and the development industry.
Symposium presenters include:
- Christy Dolan, deputy program manager with Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Planning Division in the United States;
- Donald Watson, architect, urban designer and author of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change;
- Dr. Michael Trew, Alberta’s first chief mental health officer, appointed following the June floods;
- Thomas Dallessio, project manager of the Center for Resilient Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology;
- Dr. David Laplante, developmental psychologist and research associate at McGill University’s Douglas Institute Research Centre;
- Stephen Cassell, principal of the New York-based firm Architecture Research Office;
- James Russell, architecture critic for Bloomberg News and former editor at Architectural Record magazine.
“This symposium is timely in the recovery of communities impacted by the June floods,” says Nancy Pollock-Ellwand, dean, Faculty of Environmental Design. “Resilience involves the initial phase of cleaning up and rebuilding – but we also need to learn from the disaster and adapt our city building. This event will help those now charged with the considerable task of urban design and planning.”
For more information and to register for the all-day symposium visit makeCalgary Resilient Symposium. Tickets for the After the Flood evening public lecture are free for students and $10 for non-students.
The days events are sponsored by The Calgary Foundation, Stantec and Dialog.
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