Kristina Hill | UC Berkeley

Name: Kristina Hill | UC Berkeley
Start: 2024-09-16T17:00:00-05:00
Location: 310 Inner Campus Dr B7500, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78712

Schedule

Mon Sep 16 2024 at 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

310 Inner Campus Dr B7500, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78712 | Austin, TX

This lecture, "Design for sea level rise: How to drop the mic and change the conversation," will present examples of how conventional engineering strategies can fail in coastal cities, based on new insights from groundwater hydrology, and offer an alternative vision using a more comprehensive understanding of how water interacts with landforms.
Designers can have a greater influence on state policies and city projects that address adaptation to flooding by being radically pragmatic about hydrology. Up to now, designers and engineers have persuaded decision makers with an incremental approach. But as the rate of sea level rise and groundwater-driven flooding accelerates, designers from the discipline of landscape architecture have new opportunities to provide leadership. Insights about water and landforms informed the first cities, and can be embraced once again in our current era as coastal cities face transformational challenges.