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COLLABORATION IN ACTION

SESSIONS & WORKSHOP

TUESDAY WORKSHOP

COLLABORATION & COMMUNICATION: REQUIRED SKILLS

In this workshop we will pursue the practical requirements of working with others collaboratively and communicating effectively: from an interpersonal and project perspective, to the practical issues of business structures, teamwork, and communication. In addition we will examine the application of these skills within an Integrated Design Process(IDP), the emergent team standard for creating high performance buildings.

WEDNESDAY SESSIONS

WOMEN IN GREEN: SUSTAINABILITY’S SENSIBILITIES

“Women in Green” by Kira Gold & Lance Hosey engages the amazing women who are leaders and change agents in our shared search for sustainable practice. We’ll continue the conversations that form the content of the book, revealing the sensibilities that inform these women’s practice and will inspire yours. The questions that serve to organize the content of the book and this session will in turn frame the content of our entire track.

HOW WE COMMUNICATE IS HOW WE SELL

You understand how your practice serves sustainability. Why can’t others? By exploring the foundations of effective communication we’ll help green practitioners understand and overcome obstacles to reaching the people and communities they are anxious to serve. We’ll seek practical techniques to effectively be heard by different audiences and in different mediums by recognizing personal styles, developing collaborative teams, attracting communities to your message, and participating in networks that link intention with practice.

GENERATIONS

A new generation of informed, involved, and passionately committed professionals are joining established companies and starting their own. Meanwhile, older companies are seeking to balance the transition between generations. What do young and old offer each other as a legacy of experience is passed on and carried forward? Engage in a dynamic conversation in a unique format with two generations of architects and builders as they share stories and examine their needs and ambitions.

THURSDAY SESSIONS

SOUL, PLACE, & COMMUNITY

Where does a building’s energy and aliveness come from? Why do soul, place, and community matter to what gets built or restored next? Why do some buildings have a vibe and others don’t? This shared conversation explores how people, buildings, and the public realm interact, how each informs the others and neither exists without the other two. The speakers and the audience will participate in exploring these questions together as theorists and practitioners.

ENERGY ENLIVENS

Clean, renewable energy technologies can inspire, animate, and enliven public and personal spaces, while reducing our carbon-load. Photovoltaics, wind turbines, & biological sources enhance our relationship to the natural world by making underlying systems visible. We’ll examine practices that reconnect us with weather patterns, seasonal variations, our place on the planet, and our physical senses. We’ll show how multi-disciplinary collaborations can produce intriguing energy installations that don’t compromise our quality of life or design aesthetics.

UNFOLDING WHOLENESS

This session will explore various ways in which metaphysics – the study of reality - enters into the theory and practice of sustainability. We’ll begin with an introduction to the work of architect and complexity scientist Christopher Alexander. We’ll then consider the ways that a new metaphysics of sustainability, based on the key concept of natural systems as processes of unfolding wholeness, can help guide and empower communities and individuals working toward sustainable practice.