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Agenda - AIA Austin Design Excellence Conference AIA Austin Design Excellence Conference August 19, 2020—August 21, 2020 8:00 AM-3:25 PM Central Standard Time 1 of 28 Agenda - AIA Austin Design Excellence Conference Agenda Here’s a preview of what is scheduled. Create your pesonal agenda of the sessions you'll attend on Socio, our vitural event platform, after you register. August 19, 2020 " Designing with Authenticity - 1 8:00 AM-9:00 AM CT LU/HSW Eric Lahm Associate STG Design A guide to understanding how our lived experiences affect design. The goal of this course is to produce a meaningful conversation about designing with intention and authenticity while recognizing how personal biases impact design. Typically, problems require solutions and we feel compelled to provide answers. For some problems there are strict formulas we use to arrive at the correct answer. This is not true in design. Each design solution that exists in the world is reflective of an expression of location, specific requirements, time, and the bias of the designer. Design is subjective, and we are the subjects! Designers build for you, the end user. So who I am as the designer, and who you are as the end user, has a profound effect on how we approach the design conversation. This course considers this very scenario and is focused on an East Austin case study which originated with the question, “How can your design solve gentrification?”. To be clear, we do not have a solution to this design question, but during this course we will discuss and confront honesty and its impact on design. Good design can change everyone it touches. Good design is unique, authentic, and at times, emotional and scary. Through this conversation, we dive into the question about “solving gentrification” and how this leads to unique and authentic design solutions through a process of discovery, self-critique, and a sense of responsibility. We will talk about how design research can be personal, and profound in ways that can change a designer’s entire outlook (it changed mine). We will discuss how race & gender affects us as designers and how it affects the occupants of designed spaces. We may not solve the problem, but it’ll be a hell of a conversation. 2 of 28 Agenda - AIA Austin Design Excellence Conference " How does Covid-19 change the builtenvironment 8:00 AM-9:00 AM CT from an ADA perspective? - 1 LU/HSW Jesus Lardizabal President Altura Solutions Recent social distancing requirements have added unforeseen constraints in our built environment. This is especially true for people with disabilities. In going beyond the ADA, how do we adjust our design to accommodate social distancing? How do decals on the floor help people with visual disabilities observe the minimum distancing requirements? As some facilities and services are considered essential, how do we ensure that people with disabilities are included? Learn what cities like Austin, Charlotte, and Boston are proactively doing to address the issue. " Parking Lots to Parks; Parks as a 8:00 AM-9:00 AM CT Catalyst - 1 LU/HSW Molly Beth Daniel Malcolm Woodroffe 3 Executive Vice President President of Campus dwg. Operations and Public Affairs ACC Bryan Kaminski Senior Vice President Redleaf Properties Located on the site of Austin’s first enclosed mall, Highland is a national P3 model for Education - anchored, sustainable, adaptive, community-minded reuse. Home to Austin Community College’s largest campus, this transformative redevelopment is rapidly emerging as a diverse, social and equitable place to work, educate and 3 of 28 Agenda - AIA Austin Design Excellence Conference explore. This session focuses on two signature gateway parks located at the east and west end of the “green spine.” Fontaine Plaza and St. John’s Commons Encampment tell a vital story of looking to the past and projecting a vision to present landscape as a catalyst for social equity. The parks are prime examples of “parking lots to parks” " Keynote: Is Architecture Unjust? 9:30 AM-10:30 AM CT Designing for Equity & Justice - 1 LU/HSW Augustina Melvalean Rodriguez McLemore Visual Artist and Project Architect / Architectural Project Manager Designer Moody Nolan Agi Miagi DK Osseo-Asare Sarah Schindler Co-founding Associate Dean for Principal Research, Edward S. Low Design Office Godfrey Professor of Law University of Maine School of Law Is architecture unjust? Discover how racial injustice manifests itself in the built environment and how architects can address these injustices in our communities. This Keynote of distinguished panelists will help us stay at the forefront of dismantling discrimination and advancing design justice and equity in the architectural profession. In order to achieve equity, we must embrace the uncomfortable conversations around racism and discrimination and prepare for the challenges we must work to overcome. Learn from the experiences of the panelists and uncover successful approaches for advancing design justice and making the built environment more equitable. " 2020 Is The New 2030: Strategies For 10:40 AM-11:40 AM CT Tackling Big Problems - 1 LU/HSW 4 of 28 Agenda - AIA Austin Design Excellence Conference Corey Squire Director of Sustainable Architecture Positive Energy The Climate Crisis is a big problem. Almost too big for an individual to comprehend and seemingly too complex, and distant for an individual to do anything about. While the potential impacts of non-action may seem abstract to an individual, from a societal standpoint, climate change is public enemy number one, with the potential to undermine almost all aspects of our economic and political systems. Architects were never asked to be stationed at the front lines of global health. It should be the politicians who make the rules or the oil companies that drive our demand for fossil fuels. But in a twist of fate, it’s the architects who have both the jurisdiction over buildings, (society's most significant polluters), and the skill sets to gracefully solve seemingly unsolvable problems. The steps we take during the next decade will be crucial for tackling climate change and will determine our success in 2030. But what can an individual architecture firm do to address such an enormous problem? Using a 12 step framework for taking on big problems, this optimistic session will offer simple actions that individual architects can take every day. " Built + Unbuilt: The Case (Necessity) 10:40 AM-12:10 PM CT for Green Density in the City - 1.5 LU/HSW Shaney Lauren Stanley Clemmons Principal; Architect Owner; Landscape Stanley Studio Architect Shademaker Studio 5 of 28 Agenda - AIA Austin Design Excellence Conference Jodi Lane Co-Founder Fruitful Commons We need to recognize the value and importance of natural systems in the urban realm as an adaptive response to a world that throws all manner of adverse events and conditions at us. The built environment can and should incorporate a robust network of unbuilt, or green, elements and strategies to set a course toward urban resilience. Gray (built) density and green density, if done creatively, strategically, and sensitively, do not have to be a zero sum game. " Rethink Restroom Design - 1.5 10:40 AM-12:10 PM CT LU/HSW Shelby Blessing Tamara Goheen Associate / Design Community Services Architect Coordinator Page Austin Public Library Katherine Richard Rossi Jashinski National Account Engineer Manager - New Austin Water Construction Niagra Mark Leger Project Manager Austin Energy While restrooms are a ubiquitous part of our lives, they often evade constructive discussion and critical analysis from a design perspective. Designers now have a strategic and timely opportunity to rethink restroom design to better serve all restroom users. The first hour of this session will feature a panel of experts discussing elements that influence restroom design, centering around restroom infrastructure and the people that use them. Learn about toilet design and the technology that enables 6 of 28 Agenda - AIA Austin Design Excellence Conference greatly reduced flush volumes. Also learn how restrooms can be at the forefront of environmental conservation, where dual plumbing and non-potable water for flush fixtures can save natural resources. The panelists will then focus on how inclusive restroom design benefits all, including those who do not conform to the gender binary, those who need accessible spac es and those who may need assistance from someone of a different gender. Explore how design addresses a number of secondary functions that happen in restrooms, such as attending to personal hygiene, using skin care products and changing diapers. Consider how restroom design facilitates points of distribution for personal care products as well as safe collection points for sharps. " Diversifying Services for Increased 12:45 PM-1:45 PM CT Profitability - 1 LU Anita Erickson Beau Frail CEO Principal Architect STILE Pro Activate Architecture As the economy and the practice of architecture evolve, there is an opportunity to find new ways of generating revenue through diversifying business ventures to serve alternate client bases with increased offerings. This panel discussion features multi-disciplinary industry leaders sharing their processes, successes and failures in expanding their businesses. This interactive panel will explore how your company could diversify services for growth, pivoting, or refocusing in an uncertain economic climate. " Embodied Carbon as a Performance 12:45 PM-1:45 PM CT Metric - 1 LU/HSW Dirk Kestner Martin Torres Principal - Director Graduate Engineer of Sustainable Walter P Moore Design Walter P Moore The topic of embodied carbon in the AEC industry has become a critical issue. 7 of 28 Agenda - AIA Austin Design Excellence Conference https://web.cvent.com/event/5634b643-644d-44ab-b11e-1be40c2... Buildings alone account for 40% of the global greenhouse gas emissions. Two- thirds of that total impact is from operational emissions while the remainder is from embodied emissions.