TIME: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Session Abstract:
The built environment plays a key role in addressing the climate crisis. DIALOG Partner and Architect Craig Applegath and Senior Urban Designer and Engagement Expert Khatereh Baharikhoob, will introduce the REACH Protocol, a multi-step methodology for climate adaptation. Unlike reactive measures, the REACH Protocol offers a holistic, proactive approach, emphasizing long-term resilience through extensive research, community engagement and systems-based planning, structured across five key phases.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the principles and methodology of the REACH Protocol.
- Develop adaptation strategies in urban environment with a design lens.
- Gain practical skills to engage communities in climate adaptation.
- Align adaptation strategies with existing capital & operations plans.
About the Speakers:
Khatereh Baharikhoob, is a seasoned urban designer and landscape architect with nearly 15 years of experience shaping resilient and adaptable communities. Her expertise spans landscape urbanism, master planning, strategic visioning, land use planning, and community engagement. During her tenure, has led large-scale campus planning projects in collaboration with institutions such as Toronto Metropolitan University, York University, and the University of Guelph. She brings an innovative approach to sustainability, climate adaptation, and placemaking, ensuring that communities not only endure but thrive in an evolving world.
With a deep understanding of how urban environments respond to political, economic, and environmental shifts, Khatereh specializes in designing dynamic, future-proof spaces that balance long-term vision with flexibility. Her leadership has been instrumental in embedding sustainability within urban frameworks, particularly through resilient planning and design strategies.
Craig Applegath, Partner and Architect, DIALOG, is an award-winning architect, urban designer and biologist practicing at the intersection of the built environment and natural ecosystems.
Craig designs buildings, campuses, and communities that are zero-carbon and climate adaptive, and is an international expert on climate mitigation, adaptation as well as mass timber design. Craig’s recent work integrates mass timber in the design of zero-carbon colleges and universities, and affordable modular housing.
Craig is the Founding Partner of DIALOG’s Toronto studio. He earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from the University of Toronto (UofT), a Bachelor of Architecture from Dalhousie University, and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
Craig writes and speaks internationally about his research and design explorations. Recent conferences and workshops include the AIA 2022 National Conference and the Council for Tall Building and Urban Habitat Hybrid Conference in 2022. Craig is also the current Leadership Chair of the Mass Timber Institute at the University of Toronto.
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