Session 2:
Equity, Trust and Who Recovers First
1 AIA LU|HSW
The built environment can foster connection, participation, and a sense of shared ownership. This session examines how architecture, public space, housing, and civic design can encourage everyday social interaction and strengthen the relationships that support communities during times of stress and change. Participants will explore how thoughtful, place-based design can help create healthier, more connected, and more adaptable communities.
Cost:
$15 a session for AIA and NOMA members,
$40 for non-members
Click on the links to learn more about each session
Recordings of each session will be available here, after their date has passed. CE will not be available for watching the recordings.
Session 1: October 2, 12-1pm - Community is Critical Infrastructure
Session 2: October 9, 12-1pm - Equity, Trust and Who Recovers First
Session 3: October 16, 12-1pm - Designing Places That Create Belonging
Session 4: October 30, 12-1pm - What Architects Can Do Monday Morning
Panelists:
Vivek Shandas
Vivek Shandas is a professor at Portland State University and the founder of the Sustaining Urban Places Research (SUPR) Lab and CAPA Strategies. His work explores how the places we build shape our health, relationships, and ability to respond to a changing climate. His research on extreme heat, air quality, public health, environmental justice, and community resilience has taken him from Portland neighborhoods to communities across the United States and internationally. Vivek serves as an advisor to local, state, and federal agencies, served on committees of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and currently serves on national and local advisory bodies addressing climate and environmental challenges. At the heart of his work is a simple question: how can knowledge help communities become healthier, more connected, and better able to care for one another? He especially values approaches that begin by listening to residents and recognizing their lived experience as essential knowledge.
Dave Otte, AIA
Dave is a Principal at Holst Architecture where he helps to create meaningful architecture that people love. Focusing on social impact in housing, education, and health, his work includes The Nick Fish, East County Library, and Fora Health.
Currently Dave is designing Parcel 4A at Broadway Corridor. Parcel 4A will be the first to go vertical with a 14-story mass-timber building as part of the Broadway Corridor District. Providing 219 units of affordable housing, the mixed-use building will be an anchor for the new neighborhood with a Workforce Development Center, a playground, and a community garden.
As a board member for local nonprofit and advocacy organizations, Dave strives to give back to his community, bring the most design to those with the least, and make the ordinary extraordinary. He believes that housing is healthcare and that architects have a duty to help alleviate society’s homelessness, addiction, and mental health crises.
Trevor Clifford
Trevor Clifford is a strategic planner and resilience practitioner at WSP USA, inc. He has conducted all hazards planning, training, and exercises for each phase of the disaster management cycle internationally, nationally, and locally. In his work, he seeks to collaboratively and inclusively build the capacity of the whole community to reduce disaster risk. This includes developing a sense of agency in managing risks and tools to do so, highlighting that disasters are not natural but the result of unsustainable development.
Edy Martinez
As Cully District Manager, Edy Martinez oversees two Neighbor Prosperity Networks (NPN) funded through Prosper Portland, which focus on supporting community-driven economic development efforts in two distinct neighborhood districts. Through grants, training, and one-on-one support, the Cully NPN organizations are responsible for planning and implementing projects, programs, and services to improve the local commercial districts through small business assistance and access to business development resources. Edy also positioned his team to oversee community outreach in the newly formed Cully TIF District, leading advocacy efforts to support more inclusive engagement and developing the Micro Grant for small businesses sustainability in the Cully TIF service area.
Moderator, Charles Kelley, AIA
Charles Kelley is an architect and urban designer from Portland, Oregon with 39 years of experience planning resilient community centered neighborhoods in Japan, North America, Korea, and Ukraine. This design attitude crystallizes consensus in communities who desire projects that connect social outcomes with the physical and policy design of neighborhoods. Charles brings the value of integrated design at a district scale to leverage multiple objectives across mobility, watershed, energy, water, land use, and open space systems that create resilient community-oriented neighborhoods. Charles created a new company Urban Design LLC (GUD), as a platform to use neighborhood scale design to promote community resilience.