February 23, 2016 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Rebuild by Design20 Cooper Square, 2nd floorNew York, NYUnited States Please join us for an event hosted by Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), featuring a presentation on the Rebuild by Design process and an opportunity to hear from the designers behind two award-winning projects: The Big U and Living Breakwaters. Speakers: […]
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March 19, 2014 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Syracuse University Fisher Center, New York City RBD blends philanthropic and government funding to support the development and implementation of ten projects, with each source treated as yet another layer of innovation. In engaging the philanthropic sector to fund the research and design process, RBD has also
DESIGN & POLITICS: COMPETING FOR RESILIENCE “ON FUNDING” Read More »
March 15, 2014 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Bridgeport Public Library, Bridgeport On two consecutive weekends, youth groups and other residents toured the Pequonnock River by bike with architects and ecologists, and participated in design workshops to propose strategies to redesign the water’s edge. On March 15, these events were accompanied by an afternoon festival
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March 15, 2014 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Two Bridges Tower, Lower East Side Lower East Side community members were invited to a THANK YOU, LES! party to celebrate their ongoing work on Rebuild by Design and other planning initiatives to reclaim the East River waterfront for community use and to protect residents and businesses
March 13, 2014 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm NYU Institute for Public Knowledge, New York City Team WXY/West 8 held a finance colloquia, which included a panel of industry experts who discussed risk, finance, and insurance based tools. Team member, Andy Kao, from AIR Worldwide, presented AIRs catastrophe modeling framework which provides Insured Loss Calculations.
RISK ECONOMY: REGIONAL RESILIENCE AND THE COST OF DOING NOTHING Read More »
March 11, 2014 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm CYO Mt. Loretto Banquet Hall, Staten IslandLiving, Growing Breakwaters are proposed Staten Island’s South Shore. You can help shape this project. This event is the second public outreach workshop planned for this phase of Rebuild By Design. Please attend to hear more about the project, engage in its
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March 10, 2014 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Secaucus Public Library, New Jersey On behalf of the MIT CAU + ZUS + Urbanisten Rebuild by Design team, we invited you to share insights and participate at the second interactive design public workshop: New Meadowlands: Workshop for a Resilient future. This workshop was held at the Secaucus public
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March 8, 2014 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Operation SPLASH, Long Island Community members from around Nassau County joined the Interboro Team for the 2nd public presentation and discussion of Living with the Bay: Resiliency Building Options for Nassau County’s South Shore, a Rebuild by Design project for Nassau County. The team invited residents to
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March 8, 2014 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Bridgeport, CT Scale it Up offered two weekends of hands-on workshops that allowed people to experience the city in new ways and imagined how it could be changed. The program offered residents to take a bike tour along the Pequonnock River with architects and ecologists, looking at
SCALE IT UP: BRIDGEPORT- PATHS TO THE SOUND Read More »
March 1, 2014 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Bridgeport, CT At 7 Lafayette Circle in downtown Bridgeport’s Bijou Square the WB unabridged w/ Yale ARCADIS team engaged community members and showed design proposals for the region and opened the floor up for comments and discussion. There was a presentation at 10 a.m. presenting the team’s coastal, riparian,
RESILIENT BRIDGEPORT: ALL-SCALES OPEN HOUSE Read More »
