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On November 3-5, 2019, CRCL traveled to Tel Aviv-Yafo to deliver the Tel Aviv-Yafo Resilience Accelerator, bringing together over 100 municipal leaders and stakeholders, designers, academic and scientific experts, and community leadership, for an intensive facilitated design session to design pilot solutions.
Focusing on three sites—two on Mesilat Yesharim and one at the Shapira Community Center playground and ball courts—three interdisciplinary teams will visualize project concepts, outline implementation plans, and shape principles for future planning. The workshop included intensive facilitated breakout sessions, expert panels and critique sessions, and a public exhibition and community presentation.
Project concepts and planning actions defined by workshop will be synthesized in a report for the public and will be used to advance implementation of heat mitigation strategies.
CRCL has been sharing what we are leaning about making communities and ecosystems around the world more resilient. Here are a few recent talks.
- Kate Orff presented "Workshopping a Green New Deal" at Penn Design's "Designing the Green New Deal Conference"
- Thad Pawlowski spoke with designers in Caracas (via video conference) at CCSCity450
- Kate joined Shaun Donovan at the Columbia Forum to talk about Lessons from Rebuild by Design
- Thad moderated a panel on "Climate-Resilient, Smart Cities" at the Brooklyn Museum with US Representative Yvette Clarke and NYC City Councilmember Brad Lander
- Thad spoke with members of the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (via video confernce) about building resilience to climate change.
- Thad spoke about mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions at the "Nature Hub" during the UN General Assembly's Climate Week.
The May / June 2019 issue of the Environmental Forum features an article written by CRCL faculty affiliate Lisa Dale on “How to Foil the Resource Curse in Mozambique”.
The Accelerator team delivers a workshop in Los Angeles exploring new models of development and governance for City-owned properties adjacent to the Los Angeles River.
As part of the Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability special issue, CRCL Managing Director Thaddeus Pawlowski defined "resilience" to provide a refreshed definition of key sustainability concepts.
The Accelerator team joined students and faculty from the Columbia University GSAPP Water Urbanisms Urban Design Studio in Pune, India.
The Accelerator team joined students and faculty from the Columbia University GSAPP Water Urbanisms Urban Design Studio in Can Tho, Vietnam.
CRCL Managing Director Thaddeus Pawlowski participates in a panel discussion at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland with the World Wildlife Fund.
A screening of a short video series, Van Alen Sessions Season 4: Turning the Tide in Miami, on November 15th, was followed by a panel discussion with Johanna Lovecchio, Associate Director at CRCL.
A screening of the film, This Changes Everything, on November 2, 2018 was followed by a talk with Thaddeus Pawlowski, Director at CRCL, and Corinne Erni, Senior Curator for ArtsReach and Special Projects at the Parrish Art Museum.
On November 1, 2018, CRCL welcomed representatives from the U.S. Department of State (DOS) from various countries in the Middle East.
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation has initiated the Resilient Reefs project in partnership with CRCL and 100 Resilient Cities.
The Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes (CRCL) welcomed prospective M.Arch, AAD, UD, and CCCP students during the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Open House.
100 Resilient Cities and CRCL delivers a workshop in Miami.