Resilience: Urban Codes, Policy, Planning, and Design
Session Moderator: Professor Carie Penabad (School of Architecture, University of Miami)
"Strategic, managed climate retreat for resilient adaptation pathways"
Presented by Katharine J. Mach
Under high magnitudes of sea-level rise, extreme humid heat, and other climate threats, how will human settlements transform or relocate to make room for and cope with the hazards? Here, we integrate research to chart a roadmap for strategic, managed retreat in South Florida and beyond in the 21st century using resilient adaptation pathways. We outline (1) the ways in which strategic, managed retreat diverges from past experiences, (2) an adaptation-science agenda to enable beneficial adaptation transformations including retreat, and (3) implications for resilient adaptation pathways in the near term. Substantial differences between present-day and future retreat highlight core science priorities for assessing and planning for adaptation now and for ensuring just, safe societal transitions under climate change.
"Localizing resilience: planning for sea level rise in the Little River Adaptation Action Area"
Presented by Monica Gregory
Miami-Dade County recently released its Sea Level Rise Strategy, a county-wide framework for adapting to sea level rise. Adaptation Action Areas allow Miami-Dade County to scale the framework and collaborate with community members to identify their needs and preferences as they adapt to living with more water. In this presentation, you will learn about the goals of the project, its outcomes, and how it can be replicated in other communities in the county.
"Master Plan with a Focus on Resilience for an Island Village in Biscayne Bay, Florida"
Presented by Benjamin Northrup
In 2019, North Bay Village, a small island municipality in Biscayne Bay, Florida, embarked on a planning process to create a vision for the next twenty-five years, with a focus on climate change impacts, in particular, sea-level rise. In contrast to larger coastal cities that are typically better resourced to take advantage of funding sources and regional planning efforts, the Village has worked largely within the limits of its annual budget. DPZ CoDesign has assisted the Village to formulate the NBV100 vision based on community goals, synthesizing urban planning with resilience strategies to tackle such issues such as replacing its aging seawalls, updating its stormwater plan, and increasing access to the water. Through the adoption of a Form-Based Code, NBV has harnessed interest in development to advance resilience planning.
"From Region to Neighborhood: Sea-Level Rise and Reimagining South Florida Urban Environments"
Presented by John Sandell
Drawing on green infrastructure concepts and resiliency principles in urban design, a visioning study is used as the vehicle for examining how urban environments could evolve given sea-level rise. The design strategy foregrounds nature’s role in the conceptualization of changing conditions and proposes the public space of the city as an urban commons. The project highlights the dynamics of the natural environment as a frame for reconfiguring public space as an open, permeable and adaptive system in support of this concept. The paper concludes with a brief review of planning policy instruments and suggests how these instruments help shape long-term strategy toward the repair of natural habitat and the development of unique urban environs that could support social and environmental resiliency.
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Social Resilience: The Role of the Arts in Engaging Communities
Session Moderator: Professor Lillian Manzor (Department of Modern Languages, University of Miami)
Video recording for this session is not yet available and will be released soon.
"Mangue Negotiations"
Presented by Marcos Barinas Uribe
"Plan(T)ing for the future: Using socially engaged climate art to mobilize change agents"
Presented by Xavier Cortada, Adam Roberti, and Ryan Deering
This presentation will introduce Xavier Cortada’s Plan(T) participatory eco-art project as a social practice model for developing interdisciplinary partnerships, effectively engaging communities, and mobilizing agents of change. Cortada, Deering, and Roberti will provide background information on social practice, climate change communication, saltwater intrusion, red mangroves, and Cortada’s history as a socially engaged artist in Miami-Dade County. Ultimately, this presentation will argue that social practice is an undervalued and promising approach to effectuating societal change.
"Ecoperformance vs. Extinction: Biodiversity Game Shows and Florida Futurities"
Presented by Elizabeth I. Doud, PhD
The theatre arts, and co-related field of eco-performance, play a key role in building resilience regionally through creative responses to evolving stressors and shocks resulting from Climate Change that specifically impact Florida. Besides a brief overview of theater as a socially relevant tool for addressing climate change challenges, the presentation introduces an eco-performance work about biodiversity loss in Florida ecology as a case study for these concepts, and discusses an extinction focused eco-narrative, which was developed not only as a multilingual street performance spectacle, but also as artivism and cultural collaboration intersecting with the climate and eco-justice movements.
"Extended Documentary of the International Inn in Miami Beach"
Presented by Arch. Ruth Ron
This project develops ‘Extended Architectural Documentation’ methods, using digital video and Virtual Reality (VR) formats. Pondering recent discussion about Miami’s urban resiliency, it reveals the vulnerability of historic waterfront buildings in south Florida, affected by global warming. Working with University of Miami students, we captured the 1956 ‘International Inn’ in Miami Beach. The “Extended Documentation” process stretches beyond traditional architectural representation, and is composed into a multi-layered, multi-sensory Virtual Reality (VR) and video experience. The VR interface and online videos will be available to conference participants to view on their own computer or mobile devices, as a search for experiencing architectural space remotely. Presentation includes video footage by three sets of students: Yayu Yan, Jiaxin Li and Siying Cheng (footage); Batuhan Dortcelik (footage); and Olah Khymytsia, Jake Birnberg (footage).
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Resilience: Disaster Mitigation
Session Moderator: Professor Elizabeth Greig (Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami)
"Disaster Risk Assessment and Community Engagement for Improving Resilience"
Presented by Professor Carlos Genatios
This paper presents the first-year results of the GISEC Project that aims to develop an academic pathway and enhance technological applications for environmental hazards awareness and community engagement in Miami-Dade County. The project has four components, a) an educational pathway, b) a research platform for remote sensing and multi-hazard risk assessment, c) support documents for resilience knowledge dissemination, and d) participation in a local government and community engagement initiative.
"Why Natural Disasters are a Disaster in Common Property Regimes"
Presented by Renato Molina
Developing countries tend to suffer the most from natural disasters, but the mechanisms underlying this outcome are poorly understood. I postulate that the lack of strong and well-defined property rights for renewable resources is a factor increasing the impacts of disasters. I explore this claim by examining investment patterns across institutional regimes in Chilean small-scale fisheries before and after a tsunami in 2010. The results indicate important links between more common regimes and excessive investment increasing the cost of the tsunami. This paper contributes to the ongoing work on the economic impact of natural disasters and provides an argument for how institutional regimes can be also understood as adaptation strategies.
"A Community Research Partnership to Understand Disaster Mitigation Infrastructure Available to South Floridians Living with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)"
Presented by David W. McMillan
This presentation begins with an overview of two key concepts: (1) the unique requirements of preparing for a hurricane while living with with spinal cord injury (SCI), and (2) existing governmental preparedness resources specific to this population. Next, we discuss our strategy for establishing a community research partnership with local SCI Support Groups (SCISGs) and the resulting synthesis of a collective research objective pertaining to hurricane preparedness in S.E. Florida's SCI community. The presentation concludes with the results from the inaugural 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season, emphasizing data pertaining to the collective research objective which focuses on the experience of utilizing existing resources related to transportation and sheltering during a hurricane.
"HUD's Research Agenda on Hazard Risk and Disaster Recovery"
Presented by Chris Narducci
HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research is working to plan, coordinate, fund, and implement an array of disaster related research and analysis projects. For this presentation, HUD researcher, Chris Narducci, will discuss HUD’s disaster recovery and risk reduction research efforts and walk through the current agenda of research, with specific focus on those projects recently completed and currently under way. This includes efforts to develop analytical tools to better understand the hazard risk exposure of HUD-assisted populations, evaluations of resilience program efficacy, and an analysis of the flood insurance of HUD assisted homeowners located in high risk areas.
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Social Resilience: The Evolving Role of Education
Session Moderator: Professor Erin Kobetz (Vice President for Research; Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami)
"Addressing Global Problems with Local Solutions: Educating South Florida Students on the Principles of Resilience"
Presented by Mr. Austin Perry, Dr. Esber Andiroglu, and Professor Ali Ghahremaninezhad
The strategies needed to improve coastal resilience all begin somewhere. Engineering and deploying our strategies in local communities is a culmination of multiple synergistic partnerships, research, outreach, and training . Our presentation will give an overview of the multi-level approach we have employed to take our ideas on improving coastal resilience from the drawing boards to the front lines of our South Florida communities.
"Revisiting the Bahamian community: cohousing as an alternative sustainable productive lifestyle" by Nader Azab"
Presented by Assoc. Professor Nader Azab
The presentation explores housing issues in Nassau, Bahamas and how students thought of cohousing as an alternative productive life style.
"Teaching Resilience Through Sustainable Business"
Presented by Dr. Esteban Petruzzello
The key objective of this presentation is to discuss some of the ways in which resilience can and should be included in a sustainable business curriculum. The focus is on market-driven social and environmental goals that provide benefits to society while increasing the value of the firm. We will see how investing in resilience can accomplish these objectives through product differentiation, supply chain diversification, public-private partnerships, and employee selection and retention.
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Resilience: Definitions, Transitions, and Jurisdictions
Session Moderator: Professor Viviana Horigian (Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami)
"Against Resilience: Climate Capacities in Miami and The Right to the City"
Presented by Allison Schifani
This paper makes the case for a reframing of environmental sustainability away from resilience and toward revolt. Examining extant resilience discourse within the context of Miami and South Florida, I argue that resilience discourse hinders, rather than helps, in facing the critical risks associated with anthropogenic climate change. Instead, I propose more radical ways of situating responses to the climate crisis embodied by local activists and artists working in contemporary Miami.
"Dirty Little Secrets of Climate Adaptation and Resilience Indexes: A Caribbean Assessment of Four Indexes"
Presented by Camila Zablah, Perla Aquino, Madisyn Simpson, and Paula Christina Viala
Countries of the Caribbean region share a common vulnerability to climate change. With no agreed global standard metric, the adaptation measurement landscape has several competing indexes. This presentation provides a timely assessment of four indexes and a review of individual country performances from 2010-2020.
"Understanding the 'Terroir' and its relevance to urban design in light of climate change"
Presented by Gustavo Sanchez-Hugalde and Sonia Chao
"Tackling Climate Change Across Jurisdictional Boundaries"
Presented by Katelyn Cucinotta
This year, the Coastal Resilience Partnership of Southeast Palm Beach County (CRP), a group consisting of Palm Beach County and seven jurisdictions along the coast, completed a joint climate change vulnerability assessment looking into the potential impacts of twelve climate threats on critical community assets. With socioeconomic data woven into the assessment, the purpose of the study is to provide a baseline understanding of the risks each community faces as it relates to specific threats and to inform equitable adaptation strategies that can be adopted by each jurisdiction. This presentation will cover why and how the CRP formed, a summary of the methodology and regional study results, and finally how participating municipalities and the County might move forward to implement proposed adaptation strategies.
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