TIME: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Description
Communities worldwide were threatened by fire on an unprecedented scale this year. In this talk by expert Jonah Susskind, currently a senior researcher at SWA, increasingly urgent mitigation and protection issues will be examined, including critical feedback loops between urbanization and environmental risk in fire-prone landscapes, key disciplinary knowledge gaps among practitioners, and the introduction of applied strategies for community-scale wildfire resilience.
Learning Objectives
- Identify contemporary approaches to climate research in design practice.
- Recognize how shifting geographies of environmental risk affect landscape architectural practice.
- Identify design and planning approaches that strengthen community preparedness and resilience to wildfire.
- Apply lessons from case study projects to inform future work in fire-prone communities.
Presenters:
Jonah Susskind, Associate Principal, Director of Climate Strategy, SWA
Jonah Susskind is Director of Climate Strategy at SWA, an international landscape architecture, urban planning, and design firm. In addition to leading decarbonization efforts across the firm’s global portfolio, Jonah directs applied research related to wildfire risk mitigation, coastal resilience, and climate adaptation. He has held research and teaching appointments at MIT and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Susskind is the author of, “Playbook for the Pyrocene: Design Strategies for Fire-Prone Communities.” His essays have appeared in books and journals including Designing With Nature Now (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy), Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial (Actar), Harvard Design Magazine, LA+, and Journal of Landscape Architecture. Before joining SWA, Jonah directed multiscalar urban research at the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT. He holds a masters degree in landscape architecture from the GSD and a BFA in critical visual studies from Pratt Institute.
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