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SUMMARY:Designing for Resilience With Shalini Vajjhala
DESCRIPTION:Climate resilience is often narrowly framed around avoiding the worst harms of climate change. In this talk\, Shalini will offer a broader perspective on how designing for resilience can help expand our ambitions for our public infrastructure systems — creating beautiful spaces that generate multiple social\, economic\, and ecosystem benefits and protect against that ‘once in a thousand years’ event. She will highlight examples of projects from across the US and show how public infrastructure design\, planning\, and funding processes can be adapted to serve communities’ deepest needs. She will also share how her early architecture training has shaped and carried through her career in public policy\, project finance\, and community engagement. \nAbout Shalini Vajjhala \nShalini Vajjhala\, PhD is the Executive Director of PRE Collective and a nationally recognized infrastructure and climate resilience expert with 20 years of experience designing\, funding\, and financing community-centered resilient infrastructure solutions. Over the last decade\, she founded and led the design firm re:focus partners and co-founded The Atlas\, an online platform for local government collaboration and innovation. \nPreviously\, Shalini served as Special Representative in the Office of Administrator Lisa Jackson at the Environmental Protection Agency. In this position\, she led the US-Brazil Joint Initiative on Urban Sustainability (JIUS) announced in March 2011 by Presidents Obama and Rousseff. She also served as Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Office of International & Tribal Affairs at the US EPA and as Deputy Associate Director for Energy and Climate at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. She joined the Obama Administration from the environmental think-tank Resources for the Future\, where she was awarded a patent for her climate adaptation mapping work. \nShalini received her B.Arch in Architecture and PhD in Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. She was a visiting associate professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) from 2013-2014\, where she designed and taught courses on International Environmental Diplomacy and Case Studies in Sustainable Development. She is currently a Board Member of Smart Growth America and a nonresident senior fellow with the Brookings Metro Program. \nwww.precollective.org \nLearn More Here about program and registration info \n  \n 
URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/designing-for-resilience-with-shalini-vajjhala/
LOCATION:USC School of Architecture Harris 101
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SUMMARY:USC School of Architecture Presents:  Kotchakorn Voraakhom
DESCRIPTION:Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a pioneering Thai landscape architect renowned for her expertise in designing public spaces that address the climate crisis in dense urban environments. She led the creation of Bangkok’s first critical green infrastructure project\, Chulalongkorn Centenary Park (top left)\, and has since brought her vision to life through several groundbreaking works\, including the Thammasat Urban Farm Rooftop\, Asia’s largest urban farming green roof (bottom left) and the Chao Phraya \nSky Park\, the world’s first bridge park spanning a river in a capital city. Learn More Here \n  \nMore info and registration details here
URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/usc-school-of-architecture-presents-kotchakorn-voraakhom/
LOCATION:USC School of Architecture\, Verle Annis Gallery
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