Webday Wednesday - Change is coming! Understanding the future of design in our mixed-use environment | Royal Architectural Institute of Canada

Webday Wednesday - Change is coming! Understanding the future of design in our mixed-use environment

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For the month of December, the RAIC is pleased to present a weekly series on the subject of Urbanism & Architecture.

 


 

Title: Change is coming! Understanding the future of design in our mixed-use environment
Date: December 23, 2020
Presenter: Yvette Jancso and Arezoo Talebzadeh, Kasian

SESSION:

The coronavirus pandemic has quickly transformed our spaces, affecting how people live, work, and move through their day-to-day lives. This experience will change how we design our buildings and how people interact with the built environment going forward. The pandemic revealed areas in design where there was no room for resilience, the cracks had opened and the vulnerability of our cities, buildings, and infrastructures was exposed. 

The Kasian Mixed-Use Taskforce, formed in May 2020, has been immersed in research focusing on critical issues from local to global design and how addressing the weaknesses revealed by the pandemic could transform cities, buildings, public spaces—how people live. 

We immersed ourselves in webinars, sought out our trusted and emerging experts, as well as epidemiologists and other urbanism experts. Although historically, pandemics have been frequent, it has lost its priority when designing our current cities and how we should shape our spaces. We looked both at past pandemics and the future to reflect on where we may be going. With challenges we face as a society come opportunities. 

Our preliminary research and discussion highlighted ten primary design priorities: 
1. Supporting Wellness
2. Implementing Sustainability
3. Creating Connections to Nature
4. Building Diversity and Inclusion
5. Enabling Financial Health
6. Refocusing on Resilience / Flexibility
7. Defining Affordability as it relates to Proforma and Target Market
8. Recalibrating Amenity Spaces
9. Reinforcing Security / Safety
10. Enhancing Human/ Customer experience 

The presentation develops a framework for analysis of building design with the identified primary design priorities, and through exploring the impact on occupant health and examining resiliency in the built environment. Moving forward we need to implement research to shape how we think, work, and move forward, inspired by a need to reshape and build more resilient cities.

Taskforce Members: Amber Meleskie, Arezoo Talebzadeh, Christine Craik, Desiree Geib, Yvette Jancso and JP Thornton

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Identify the effects of pandemics on the built environment from a historical point of view.
  • Describe the different methods of data collection.
  • Explain how the ten primary design priorities influence future building designs.
  • Implement design objectives learned in this webinar for future projects.

BIOS:

 

Yvette Jancso, B.Arch., BES, BA, OAA, MRAIC, LEED AP, Associate, Kasian

Yvette has practiced in the fields of architecture and urban design since 1994. Her extensive experience with accomplished design firms in programming, detail design, master and concept planning, expansions and renovations, and urban rejuvenation informs her skills to embrace complexity while considering site, landscape, built form, and community. Yvette has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo. The focus of her work is on uniting the scale of the individual with the scale of the urban environment.

 

 

Arezoo Talebzadeh, OAA, NCARB, MRAIC, Senior Project Architect, Kasian 

Arezoo Talebzadeh is a registered architect, holding a second Master's degree in Design for Health. She recently started a Ph.D. study with a research interest in the soundscape and the built environment. Her research focuses on sound and sensory stimuli perception, designing for the geriatric population, people with cognitive difficulties, dementia, and physical impairment.

Continuing education learning hours: 1 credit

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Monday, December 21 at 8:00 p.m. ET

WEBINAR REGISTRATION FEE:
$50 for RAIC members, plus applicable taxes.
$75 for non-members, plus applicable taxes.

SCHEDULE: The Webinar will take place on Wednesday, December 23 at 1 p.m. ET in English.
The Canada-wide schedule by time zone is:

 PACIFICMOUNTAINCENTRALEASTATLANTICNEWFOUNDLAND
START 10 a.m. 11 a.m. 12 noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 2:30 p.m.
END 11 a.m. 12 noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 3 p.m. 3:30 p.m.

More information, including online access instructions will be sent to you by email on the Tuesday prior to the Webday webinar. 

*Purchase of webinars and events are non-transferable.

When
2020-12-23 13:00 through  2:00 PM
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