Presentation: Thinking Water_PART II: A Briefing for Designers

Thinking Water_Part II: Water, Energy, and Climate Challenges Facing the U.S. West: A Briefing for Designers, hosted by the Arid Lands Institute in partnership with UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) is a half-day seminar and briefing for designers on the critical water challenges facing the U.S. West.

To register, send us an email: info.aridlands@woodbury.edu

The future of development across the western United States is intricately linked to the availability of water. A precious, but often overlooked and misunderstood resource, water impacts policy, the environment, and economics. Addressing these issues, a team of scientists and researchers from UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability will present findings, brief attendees, and answer questions on water, energy, climate change, and strategic design opportunities for a water-smart future.

Thinking Water_Part II: Water, Energy, and Climate Challenges Facing the US West: A Briefing for Designers is part of ALI’S 2011-2012 Drylands Design Initiative. The event support architects, landscape architects, engineers, urban designers, and students participating in the William Turnbull, Jr. Drylands Design Competition, an international competition seeking progressive design strategies for low-carbon, localized water systems.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information: aridlands.woodbury.edu/public_programs/thinking_water_2011.html

To register, send us an email: info.aridlands@woodbury.edu

Fall 2011: CALL FOR ENTRIES + UPCOMING BRIEFING

Registration is open for the Drylands Design Competition until November 15th. Entries are due December 15th, and six winners will be selected in mid-January. Winners will develop and present their proposals at the March 2012 Drylands Design Conference, and will be exhibited in a traveling exhibition launching from Los Angeles’s A+D Museum.

Register now, and attend the briefing on Saturday October 29th. Briefing details can be found here: 10.29 Thinking water event.v2

To register, send us an email: info.aridlands@woodbury.edu

October 2011: Monterey Design Conference + Thinking Water, Part 2

Our AIA/California Council and CAF partners invited us to deliver a Continuing Ed Session as part of this year’s Monterey Design Conference. We expected 20 to 30 people, and 80 showed up. That gives us a strong indication of the hunger out there in the design professions for more information on: what, exactly, does water have to do with practicing architecture in the US West?

As part of our extended effort to answer that very question, we are offering a great 1/2-day seminar on Saturday October 29th, 2011. UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability is joining with us to provide a briefing by scientists, for designers. Topics to be addressed are the central challenges of the drylands design competition brief: untying the water/energy nexus; anticipating climate change impacts; maximizing local resources; and constructing systems that sustain social equity.

Please join us on Saturday, October 29th, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm, Ahmanson Main Space, Woodbury University Burbank.
All presentations will be videotaped and uplaoded to ALI’s video archive within one week. Here’s the full program:
10.29 Thinking water event.v2