Resilient Futures: AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference (2022)
Description
The acceleration of climate change and climate migration has created an unprecedented diversity of challenges that our built environment and communities must face in the coming decades. This acceleration is matched by a growing diversity of research and design efforts to counteract these challenges—both in academia and practice—centered around concepts of resiliency. This conference invites practitioners, scholars, and policy leaders engaged in shaping the future of resilience to identify challenges shaping the built environment, as well as the emerging tools, methods, practices designed to address the challenges ahead.
AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: RESILIENT FUTURES 2022
The focus of the INTERSECTIONS programs is intended to strengthen the INTERSECTION between academia and design practice, especially when it comes to research and innovation, focused on resilience strategies.
Learning Objectives
Discover principles of resilient design in the built environment.
Discover the connection between healthy, resilient neighborhoods greenspace and violence levels.
Explore scales of engagement with design stakeholders from community and urban planning to site design and incorporating feedback.
Discover how to cultivate resilience through the practice of socio-ecological design and experimentation in form-making.
2022 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: RESILIENT FUTURES
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Courses
Opening Keynote: Amale Andraos
Amale Andraos, FRAIC, presents recent projects demonstrating principles of resilience and high performance design strategies. She speaks to the methods available to architects even when confronted with small budgets and tight timelines. Amale also appears in conversation with conference co-chair and research assistant professor Stephen Mueller to discuss the challenges of designing in areas of social and environmental instability and highlights the strength of connecting academia with practice in an intentional way.
Course expires 01/25/2026
Equitable Futures: Special Focus Session
This panel will explore what equity means through the lens of accessible and universal design. Panelists will highlight the barriers to disabled students in architectural education, accessibility as critical to sustainability and resilience and diversity and equity-focused practices in critiques. Spatial equity and inclusivity will be highlighted and evaluated from the viewpoint of the academy as well as in practice.
Course expires 1/25/2026
Healthy Futures: Plenary Session
This plenary will present the latest research on designing for heath, both within healthcare environments and in a wider urban setting. Healthcare morphologies and research on green space will be explored as well as research discoveries occurring in practice.
Course expires 1/25/2026
Healthy Futures: Special Focus Session
This session will delve into tools and techniques in healthcare design to improve outcomes and plan for resilience. Using artificial intelligence to evaluate and discover scenarios for preventative design in healthcare spaces will be uncovered as well as material health in healthcare settings. Using nature to increase patient outcomes will also be explored, including ongoing research with human subjects in a healthcare setting.
Course expires 1/25/2026
Engaged Futures: Plenary Session
From the viewpoint of various scales, from planning to ADU design, resilience through client engagement will be explored in this session. Learn how architects and architectural students can be advocates for both their clients and for improved policies and codes. See how a design/build studio is helping to improve policy decisions on the ground as a direct outcome of student project work.
Course expires 1/18/2026
Engaged Futures: Special Focus Session
This panel will explore historical and contemporary relationships between communities and landscapes, urban forests and coastline resilience concerns. Urban forestry, coastal wetlands and industrial landscapes will be interrogated and unpacked to discover impacts on surrounding communities. Challenges such as tackling gentrification, facilitating deep community engagement and providing equitable access to open spaces will be explored.
Course expires 1/25/2026
Expanded Futures: Plenary Session
This session will explore artist and designer responses to environmental resilience. Using nature as inspiration these designers have investigated what it means to create a closed-system environment, what we can learn from other organisms and how we can push our own thinking about the futures of the built environment.
Course expires 1/25/2026
Expanded Futures: Special Focus Session
Go behind the scenes to discover the science, techniques and software used to create both usable data sets for architects and exploratory design platforms. This panel will uncover the actual processes used to pull weather data and climate analysis to influence design decision-making as well as explore the game creation process. It will explore the ways designers are responding to the challenge of potential climate catastrophe and how resilient principles can help avert a dangerous future.
Course expires 1/25/2026