Post-Climate Change / Wildfire Resilient Design

As wildfires increasingly threaten communities in California and beyond, innovative approaches in technology, architecture, landscape, and urban design are essential for enhancing resilience in a “Post-Climate Change” era. This panel will explore this condition across multiple scales, from urban-scale questions of where, why, and how to (re-)build in territories of risk, to de-risking the built environment through symbiotic approaches to landscape and site design, as well as the latest advancements in wildfire-resilient architecture, focusing on the overlap of home hardening and technological solutions with long-term sustainability.

Presenters

Join us on Thursday, September 26, from 12:00 - 1:30 PM, for a roundtable hosted by Studio VARA and AIA San Francisco. Hear from industry leaders including Harry Statter founder and CEO of Frontline Wildfire Defense, Tyler Pew - founder of LMNOP Design and founding member of the Dixie Fire Collaborative, James Lord of Surfacedesign, Robert B. Olshansky, FAICP - Visiting Professor, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley Kevin Farnham, Co-Founder of Kei, Ian McRae, Project Strategist at Sherwood Design Engineers, Kate Stillwell, co-founder of FireBreak Risk, Andy Drake, AIA Senior Associate at Studio VARA, and Christopher Roach, AIA IIDA founding principal of Studio VARA and Senior Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts.