Rising Currents at 15: Coastline Resiliency Post Sandy

Join us for a conversation on Rising Currents on the 12th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy.

Rising Currents, a workshop held at MoMA PS1 in 2009 that led to an exhibition at MoMA in 2010, featured five interdisciplinary teams of designers-in-residence, tasked with re-envisioning vulnerable areas of the coastlines of New York City and nearby New Jersey around New York Harbor. Based on an AIA.Latrobe-funded study on “soft” infrastructure alternatives sympathetic to the needs of a sound ecology, the Rising Currents project returned to the forefront of discussion after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 accelerated New York City’s need for coastline resiliency. This panel is at once a reunion, a taking stock, and a discussion on next steps of an issue that has only intensified in urgency. 

Speakers:
Mathew Baird, FAIA, Principal, Baird Architects
Stephen Cassel, FAIA, Principal, Architecture Research Office
Susannah Drake, FAIA, FASLA, Founder, DLANDstudio; Principal, Sasaki
Mimi Hoang, AIA, Principal, nARCHITECTS
David Lewis, AIA, Principal, LTL Architects
Paul Lewis, FAIA, Principal, LTL Architects
Guy Nordenson, Hon. AIANY, Principal, Guy Nordenson and Associates
Kate Orff, FASLA, RLA, Principal, SCAPE
Catherine Seavitt, FAIA, FASLA, FAAR, Principal, Catherine Seavitt Studio
Marc Tsurumaki, AIA, Principal, LTL Architects
Adam Yarinsky, FAIA, Principal, Architecture Research Office

Moderator:
Barry Bergdoll, Hon. AIANY, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History, Columbia University