Water Culture: How Communities and Cultures Are Being Transformed by Water

Pre-Event

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL

Lead Speaker(s)

Wes Michaels, ASLA, LEED AP

Principal
Spackman Mossop Michaels
Shaney Peña-Gómez

Founder
CIVICA
Jeff Carney, AIA, AICP

Associate Professor, Associate Director FIBER
School of Architecture, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER)

Water is reshaping communities across the world in ways that are not only physical and economic but also political, social, and cultural. This session looks at how landscape architects are addressing this expanded range of issues in vulnerable geographies from New Orleans to Haiti to Puerto Rico.

Learning Objectives:

Describe examples of communities that are being transformed by water management issues.
Identify cultural and political issues related to stormwater management in communities.
Summarize the range of challenges communities face with sea-level rise and climate change, especially as it relates to water.
Examine ways to better incorporate these issues into their work.